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UK competition watchdog probes Google’s $2.6bn Looker deal

The Competition and Markets Authority on Monday opened a request for comment on the deal to see whether it might cause a “substantial lessening of competition”. Looker, which had raised around $280m in venture capital before Google swooped, allows users to visualise and analyse all the data they hold in different cloud services, including those from Amazon, Microsoft and Oracle, in one place. Google said the company would continue to work with its rivals. Read More...

The Competition and Markets Authority on Monday opened a request for comment on the deal to see whether it might cause a “substantial lessening of competition”. Looker, which had raised around $280m in venture capital before Google swooped, allows users to visualise and analyse all the data they hold in different cloud services, including those from Amazon, Microsoft and Oracle, in one place. Google said the company would continue to work with its rivals.

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