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Digital ecosystem expansion can be caught under modern EU merger law, senior official says

By Andrew Boyce and Nicholas Hirst ( September 28, 2022, 14:05 GMT | Insight) -- EU officials are right to carefully scrutinize acquisitions that could help Big Tech expand into new markets, according to a senior official. An antitrust investigation into Google's Android operating system showed that officials need to "go beyond [defining markets] to see how markets connect and what is likely to happen," said Guillaume Loriot, who heads the mergers department at the European Commission.Big Tech acquisitions that bolster their digital ecosystems and help them expand into new markets are legitimate concerns for EU merger regulators, according to a senior official....

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