UK antitrust watchdog probes IBM's $6.4bn HashiCorp acquisition

The UK’s competition watchdog has launched a probe into IBM’s prospective acquisition of software firm HashiCorp.

The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) launched a merger inquiry in late December to determine whether the deal would result in a “substantial lessening of competition”.

The CMA wants relevant stakeholder views about potential competition issues. Interested parties have until January 16 to comment, and a decision on the initial investigation is expected by February 25.

2025 Will See the First-Stage Commercial Rollout of D2C Satellite Services, But High-Speed D2C Broadband Won’t Reach Standard Smartphones

ABI Research’s 5th annual Trend Report identifies the 3 Space Technologies trends that will come to fruition —and the 3 that won’t—in 2025