# Professor Aswath Damodaran offers an explanation for the increase in mergers and acquisitions in the tech industry

1 Faculty News December 30, 2015 ![Financial Times logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/uat_025699.jpg?itok=5SpaxEbn)>

Excerpt from the [Financial Times](http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/573f9d9c-adae-11e5-b955-1a1d298b6250.html) -- "[Aswath Damodaran](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/aswath-damodaran), NYU Stern professor, blames the industry’s short life cycle, which sends chief executives on desperate shopping sprees for growth."

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