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Google completes Looker deal after UK regulator finds they aren't close rivals

By Ben O’Neill ( February 13, 2020, 11:46 GMT | Insight) -- Google’s confidence that its buyout of business-analytics company Looker Data Sciences wouldn’t meet significant resistance from the UK’s antitrust regulator has been vindicated after the deal was cleared today. The Competition and Markets Authority — which had put a freeze order on the deal last month while it completed its initial probe — said it hadn’t found that it would lead to higher prices or lower quality, or that Google would likely exploit its market power to keep rivals at bay.Google's confidence that its buyout of business-analytics company Looker Data Sciences wouldn't meet significant resistance from the UK's antitrust regulator has been vindicated after the deal was cleared today....

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