M&A News: UK Competition Watchdog Opens Inquiry into $8billion SLB and ChampionX Deal
The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has launched an inquiry into oilfield services company Schlumberger’s (SLB) ...
Coalition ‘concerned’ over UK appointing ex-Amazon exec as antitrust regulator chair
A coalition of organizations and individuals have signed an open letter expressing concern at the U.K. government's decision ...
CMA shake-up set to drive resurgence of UK M&A activity
Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) in the UK are expected to strengthen in 2025, aided by the recent shake-up at the competition ...
UK government says Microsoft and AWS unfairly dominate the cloud market
UK Competition and Markets Authority says Microsoft and AWS have an unfair dominance over the country's cloud market.
UK competition agency will make ‘rapid decisions’, new chair says
The UK’s competition regulator will speed up its investigations in order to try and unlock greater investment into the ...
UK seeks greater regulatory power over Microsoft and Amazon Web Services' cloud computing services
The UK's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has announced its preliminary findings that the cloud services market "is ...
Datacenter Dynamics10d
UK's CMA finds elements of cloud computing market has 'adverse effect on competition'
The UK's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has released its provisional findings for its cloud services market investigation.
Computer Weekly2d
Digging into the CMA’s provisional take on AWS and Microsoft’s hold on UK cloud market
Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft have not taken kindly to the Competition and Markets Authority’s (CMA) provisional ...
Impacts9d
UK Says Microsoft And Amazon Are Dominant Players In Cloud Competition
UK Says Microsoft And Amazon Are Dominant Players In Cloud Competition  Britain’s antitrust watchdog on Tuesday raised ...
Computer Weekly10d
AWS and Microsoft could face ‘targeted intervention’ from CMA over UK cloud competition concerns
The CMA has published the provisional findings from its long-running investigation into the UK cloud infrastructure services ...
Microsoft stifling competition in cloud services market, finds UK regulator
The UK antitrust regulator has singled out Microsoft for using its dominance in software to stifle rivals in the £9bn UK cloud services market, as the watchdog warned competition “is not working”.