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CloudSimple will join Google Cloud, a priority business for the Alphabet Inc. unit

Amazon makes second deal in the healthcare sector in Health Navigator. Rothschild buys Livingstone's U.K. business. Vance Street backs aviation services company. Third quarter M&A insights from PwC and Pitchbook.

"Our total addressable market is between $10 billion and $20 billion and we are just a fraction of that," Apttus CEO Frank Holland tells Mergers & Acquisitions.

In time for the MLB playoffs, Hicks Equity teams with player agent to launch new baseball agency which clients include Justin Turner of the Los Angeles Dodgers. Silver Lake and Microsoft make deals. Actress Cameron Diaz invests in acupuncture franchise. Mergers & Acquisitions seeks nominations for the Most Influential Women in Mid-Market M&A, due Oct. 14.

IBM is playing catch up to Amazon.com Inc. and Microsoft in offering computing and other software and services over the internet.

Google was more active in dealmaking than any other tech company in the last decade. TheMaven acquires Jim Cramer co-founded TheStreet. Dassault purchases Medidata.

Cloud is important for Google because growth is slowing in its core search advertising business.

Micrososft acquires GitHub; Seidler Equity and MLB buy Rawlings; Tyson Foods purchases Tecumseh Poultry.

Gryphon backs dermatology group in Florida; Walmart sells majority of Brazil operations; Carlyle raises new CLO fund.

Microsoft, under CEO Satya Nadella, is relying less on Windows and more on in-house development.