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Google is reportedly planning its biggest startup acquisition ever
Google continues jockeying for the Microsoft Azure crown.
Google is considering spending $23 billion to buy Wiz, a cloud cybersecurity startup with partners that include Amazon and Oracle, reports The Wall Street Journal. That seemed to be the idea behind its half-billion dollar purchase of another cloud security startup in 2022 and the$5.4 billion acquisition of Mandiant, the company that discovered the SolarWinds hack later that year. The Biden administration has presided over significant antitrust action, including the Department of Justice’s lawsuit over Google’s Search deal with Apple and the Federal Trade Commission’s failed effort to block Microsoft from buying Activision.
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