UK provisionally approves Broadcom’s $69B VMware acquisition

The U.K.’s competition authority has said that it plans to greenlight Broadcom’s $69 billion bid for virtualization software giant VMware.
The news comes exactly a week after the European Commission (EC) approved the deal, which pretty much leaves the U.S. as the last remaining hurdle for Broadcom, with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) currently investigating the deal.
Diversify
Broadcom’s interest in buying VMware, which was first announced last May, represents part of its plans to diversify beyond hardware and extend into enterprise infrastructure software. The main concern so far ha

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