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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9616

6 March 2008
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/competition
Commission allows IBM to buy Telelogic

Brussels, 05/03/2008 (Agence Europe) - On Wednesday 5 March, the European Commission approved the acquisition of the Swedish company Telelogic by US group IBM. The two companies make tools for modelling software. Following its investigation (opened on 3 October 2007, see EUROPE 9516), the Commission concluded that the proposed concentration would not present a serious risk to competition within the European Economic Area (EEA) or substantial part of it.

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