News HPE gets approval for $14B acquisition of Juniper, to defend AI networking edge against China's Huawei — White House stepped in after agencies flag...

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U.S. intelligence reportedly pushed the DOJ to approve HPE’s $14B Juniper acquisition, viewing it as a strategic move against Huawei. Despite internal DOJ tension, the merger seeks to strengthen US networking capabilities amid rising tech competition with China.

HPE gets approval for $14B acquisition of Juniper, to defend AI networking edge against China's Huawei — White House stepped in after agencies flag... : Read more

 

[hotaru251]

emphasizing that national security interests overrode any antitrust objections.

and that can of worms is now opened.

can't wait for any big tech merger in future to use that :|

 

[gblack]

Why is there zero mention of Cisco anywhere in this article? It's like they don't exist? Cisco is a much better Huawei competitor than Juniper or HPE either one.

But yes, I'm sure others in big tech will try to exploit this for mergers.