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Re:Trump Issues Order to Block Broadcom’s Takeover of Qualcomm by tlb on Monday March 12, 2018 @07:30PM (#16572630)
It has happened 4 times before, once by the current administration: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Committee_on_Foreign_Investmen...
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Re:Trump Issues Order to Block Broadcom’s Takeover of Qualcomm by kyrra on Monday March 12, 2018 @08:47PM (#16573020)
My previous employer (Sourcefire) was blocked from being bought by Checkpoint by CFIUS. Though the president didn't sign an order, the deal got a lot of scrutiny and likely would have been blocked.

https://www.securityfocus.com/news/11382

I wonder how many cases there were like this.

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