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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 11484

6 February 2016
Contents Publication in full By article 18 / 26
ECONOMY - FINANCE - BUSINESS / (ae) competition
Western Digital's acquisition of SanDisk given go-ahead

Brussels, 05/02/2016 (Agence Europe) - On Thursday 4 February, the European Commission gave the go-ahead to the planned acquisition of data storage manufacturer SanDisk by rival Western Digital, both of the US, after investigating the flash memory storage solutions market, particularly for hard disk drives or solid state drives based on flash memory used by companies.

Despite the merged entity's relatively high combined market share, the Commission says the deal does not raise competition...

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