There’s at least one company that’s not too happy that Microsoft has received European Union approval for its $26 billion acquisition of LinkedIn: Microsoft’s rival Salesforce.
Salesforce had been protesting to the EU about the deal, hoping that the EU would force Microsoft into promising that it would keep access to LinkedIn’s treasure trove of data open to all competitors.
The EU did extract a rather lengthy list of concessions from Microsoft, but not about LinkedIn’s data. The list centered on things like making Microsoft promise not to use its market position with Windows and MS Office to squash other social networks.
Salesforce, which tried to buy LinkedIn itself, is now warning that regulators will have to watch Microsoft closely and hints that if Microsoft does close access to LinkedIn’s data, Salesforce won’t accept the situation silently.
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