{"id":998784,"date":"2026-03-20T10:00:26","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T04:30:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=998784"},"modified":"2026-03-20T10:40:30","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T05:10:30","slug":"acquihires-often-used-by-big-tech-are-a-red-flag-doj-antitrust-head-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/03\/20\/acquihires-often-used-by-big-tech-are-a-red-flag-doj-antitrust-head-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Acquihires, often used by Big Tech, are a &#8216;red flag,&#8217; DOJ antitrust head says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Companies&#8217; efforts to sidestep U.S. antitrust scrutiny through tactics such as &#8220;acquihires&#8221; &#8211; a strategy some Big Tech firms use to snap up talent at artificial intelligence startups &#8211; are a &#8220;red flag,&#8221; the top U.S. antitrust enforcer told Reuters on Wednesday. <\/p>\n<p>Acquihires, \u200cwhere the \u2060world&#8217;s \u2060biggest technology firms pay large sums in deals with promising startups to take their technology and talent, but stop short of formally acquiring the target, are increasingly being viewed by antitrust regulators as an attempt to evade merger rules. In one recent example, Nvidia in December agreed \u2060to license \u200cchip technology from startup Groq and hire its CEO, without buying the company.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Companies&#8217; efforts to sidestep U.S. antitrust scrutiny through tactics such as &#8220;acquihires&#8221; &#8211; a strategy some Big Tech firms use to snap up talent at artificial intelligence startups &#8211; are a &#8220;red flag,&#8221; the top U.S. antitrust enforcer told Reuters on Wednesday. Acquihires, \u200cwhere the \u2060world&#8217;s \u2060biggest technology firms pay large sums in deals with promising startups to take their technology and talent, but stop short of formally acquiring the target, are increasingly being viewed by antitrust regulators as an attempt to evade merger rules. In one recent example, Nvidia in December agreed \u2060to license \u200cchip technology from startup Groq [&hellip;]<\/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-998784","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\/998784","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=998784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/998784\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=998784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=998784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=998784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}