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Reuters
Tue, February 10, 2026 astatine 9:35 AM CST 1 min read
BRUSSELS, Feb 10 (Reuters) - Alphabet's Google gained unconditional EU antitrust support connected Tuesday for its $32 cardinal acquisition of cybersecurity institution Wiz, its biggest ever deal, aft regulators said the woody would not rise immoderate contention concerns.
The deal, announced successful March past year, would boost Google's beingness successful cybersecurity and successful the unreality computing assemblage wherever it competes with bigger rivals Amazon.com and Microsoft.
"Google stands down Amazon and Microsoft successful presumption of marketplace shares successful unreality infrastructure, and our appraisal confirmed that customers volition proceed to person credible alternatives and the quality to power providers," EU antitrust main Teresa Ribera said successful a statement.
The European Commission, which acts arsenic the EU contention enforcer, said immoderate information acquired by Google via the deal is not commercially delicate and tin besides beryllium assessed by different security bundle companies.
Tech deals person successful caller years triggered greater regulatory scrutiny due to the fact that of concerns that these could boost large companies' marketplace power and unopen retired smaller rivals.
(Reporting by Foo Yun Chee)
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