Checkmate – Trump tells Broadcom to leave Qualcomm alone

US President Trump is increasingly living up to his name by poking his nose into business deals, and has blocked Broadcom’s attempted acquisition of Qualcomm.
We previously reported that Qualcomm’s board seemed to have played a blinder by getting the Committee of Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) involved in Broadcom’s hostile takeover bid for it. You didn’t have to be Niccolò Machiavelli to note that protectionism was a cornerstone of Trump’s P