EU: ContentGuard deal can go through
As EU regulators abandoned their investigation into the acquisition, Microsoft, Time Warner and Thomson Media quickly sealed the deal to acquire digital rights technology vendor ContentGuard. But ContentGuard CEO Michael Miron charges they’ve plundered the company.
The European Commission said on Tuesday that the proposed acquisition of ContentGuard by the three companies doesn’t fall under the EU’s Merger Regulation, and they were free to complete the deal.
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