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Year to more than a trillion dollars. Well today, there was more deal talk. A lot of it. First, a deal rejected. The chip maker altera reportedly said no to an intel offer of 50 a share or so. That would have been a better than 40 premium to alteras stock price when dl talks revved up a few weeks ago. Altera makes programmable chips, which is what attracts intel. Had the deal gone through, it would have been intels biggest acquisition ever. Shares of altera jumped 3 while intel was off fractionally today. Now to a deal accepted. Linkedin is snapping up the online career skills site linda. Com, for 1. 5 billion. Its biggest purchase ever. It hires courses for professionals. Linda will bulk up the social Services Like linking up professionals. With all the announced deals in m a so far this year 2015 is running at record or near record levels. If the pace continues, our guest says the price tag for the year could exceed 3 trillion in ....