What a strange acquisition for the UK competition authorities to make a stand over.
There must be a thousand more anti-competitive mergers than this one every year.
There must be a thousand more anti-competitive mergers than this one every year.
Gotta start somewhere, I guess.
* Elon Musk + Twitter 2022
* Microsoft + Activision 2022
* Salesforce + Slack 2022
* GitHub + Microsoft 2019
* Red Hat + IBM 2018
The Giphy deal, at like ~$400m, is so small it hardly even registers on my radar. It's not a small deal, nor a large deal. It's like the UK saw that it would be irritating to Meta, but not too irritating for them to exit the UK over.
It's likely that a future AR/VR world will be another duopoly only this time with Apple and Meta.
Sorry, couldn't help but make a stupid joke about the inconsistency in that list.