McAfee Acquisition Approved by Intel

This summer, more precisely - in August, it became known that Intel wants to acquire the anti-virus company McAfee. The cost of the transaction is quite large - $ 7.68 billion. The US antimonopoly officers immediately turned their attention to this deal, and began to check its legality, as happens in similar cases. By the way, this transaction is the largest in the history of Intel.

The corporation decided to buy MacAfee in order to expand its influence on the fast-growing segment of the network security application market. Today it became known that the US antitrust commission approved the deal, so that it will be completed soon. True, there is one more problem - European antimonopolschiki, but often the Europeans are waiting for the decision of their American colleagues, and then make a similar decision.

Analysts believe that there should be no particular problems in the consideration of the transaction by European lawmakers, so very soon MacAfee will indeed go under Intel. Naturally, after the completion of the transaction, Intel will immediately integrate the MacAfee infrastructure into its own structure. It seems that in less than a couple of months, we will hear about a new product in a new field for Intel.
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It is also worth noting that Intel does not always have warm relations with antitrust authorities in the United States or Europe. Last year, for example, the corporation was fined $ 1.45 billion for actions that violated EU antitrust laws.

Now, Intel representatives do not comment on the situation, responding that work with the EU continues.

Via CNET