Europe pokes its nose into Qualcomm’s $47bn NXP purchase

Moving at the breakneck speed which we have all learned to endure, the European Commission has decided to put Qualcomm’s $47 billion acquisition of NXP under the microscope.
The initial move was announced back in October, seeming a play from Qualcomm to become a bigger player in the IoT and NFC segments, though we have been scratching our heads, trying to figure out what the European Commission (hereafter known as the Gaggle of Red-tapers) has been doing for the past six months.
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