Contrary to what the sector was expecting, the Commission authorised, on 3 October, the acquisition by Facebook, the world's largest social network, of the free instant messaging application for mobile devices, WhatsApp. Competition Commissioner Joaquin Almunia, in a speech at Fordham University on 12 September, explained that this merger "raises a number of challenging questions ranging from market definition in communication services to the role of data in competitive analysis. One key issue is to identify the extent to which…
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