{"id":984362,"date":"2026-01-09T11:24:32","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T05:54:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=984362"},"modified":"2026-01-09T11:24:32","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T05:54:32","slug":"china-to-investigate-metas-purchase-of-manus-in-its-third-largest-acquisition-and-why-it-may-be-a-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/09\/china-to-investigate-metas-purchase-of-manus-in-its-third-largest-acquisition-and-why-it-may-be-a-problem\/","title":{"rendered":"China to investigate Meta&#8217;s purchase of Manus in its third largest acquisition and why it may be a problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Chinese government has said that it will open a formal investigation into Meta\u2019s acquisition of AI startup Manus, a deal valued at over $2 billion \u2013 third largest in the Facebook-parent company\u2019s history. According to a report, Beijing will scrutinise the deal to ensure compliance with regulations governing overseas investment and the export of strategic technologies.<\/p>\n<p>The Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM) said in a statement that it will assess whether the transaction violates the country\u2019s strict export control and technology transfer laws.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Chinese government has said that it will open a formal investigation into Meta\u2019s acquisition of AI startup Manus, a deal valued at over $2 billion \u2013 third largest in the Facebook-parent company\u2019s history. According to a report, Beijing will scrutinise the deal to ensure compliance with regulations governing overseas investment and the export of strategic technologies. The Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM) said in a statement that it will assess whether the transaction violates the country\u2019s strict export control and technology transfer laws.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-984362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/984362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=984362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/984362\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=984362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=984362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=984362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}