{"id":991507,"date":"2026-02-12T08:26:53","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T02:56:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=991507"},"modified":"2026-02-12T08:36:29","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T03:06:29","slug":"google-secures-eu-antitrust-approval-for-32-billion-wiz-acquisition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/12\/google-secures-eu-antitrust-approval-for-32-billion-wiz-acquisition\/","title":{"rendered":"Google secures EU antitrust approval for $32 billion Wiz acquisition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BRUSSELS: Alphabet&#8217;s Google gained unconditional EU antitrust approval on \u2060Tuesday for its $32 billion acquisition of cybersecurity company Wiz, its biggest ever deal, after regulators \u200csaid \u200cthe deal would not raise any competition concerns. <\/p>\n<p>The deal, \u200cannounced in March last year, would boost Google&#8217;s presence in cybersecurity and in the cloud computing sector where it competes with bigger rivals Amazon.com and Microsoft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BRUSSELS: Alphabet&#8217;s Google gained unconditional EU antitrust approval on \u2060Tuesday for its $32 billion acquisition of cybersecurity company Wiz, its biggest ever deal, after regulators \u200csaid \u200cthe deal would not raise any competition concerns. The deal, \u200cannounced in March last year, would boost Google&#8217;s presence in cybersecurity and in the cloud computing sector where it competes with bigger rivals Amazon.com and Microsoft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-991507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/991507","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=991507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/991507\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=991507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=991507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=991507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}