Broadcom seeks EU antitrust approval for $61 billion VMware buy

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Announced in May, the deal is the second biggest globally so far this year and marks Broadcom’s attempt to diversify its business into enterprise software.

Tech deals have drawn intense scrutiny from regulators around the world concerned about power being concentrated in a few players and the possibility of bigger companies acquiring startups only to shut them down.

(This story has been corrected to fix EU decision date to Dec. 20 from Nov. 20)