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Out of thousands of merger transactions impacting on the UK every year, the CMA steps in to prevent just a handful of problematic deals. We continue to clear the vast majority of mergers, including many carried out by the major tech firms such as Meta's acquisition of Kustomer and Microsoft's acquisition of Nuance. Most recently, we cleared Amazon's acquisition of iRobot which makes the Roomba vacuum cleaner. But where, after careful consideration of all the evidence, we conclude that a merger will substantially lessen competition, including in dynamic and innovative sectors, it's right that we step in.

Lol, this line reads like they just cleared this so they can shake the "closed for business" moniker. CMA is absolutely pathetic, hope MS closes over this clown of an organization.