{"id":30181,"date":"2020-12-22T17:25:30","date_gmt":"2020-12-23T01:25:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=30181"},"modified":"2020-12-22T17:25:30","modified_gmt":"2020-12-23T01:25:30","slug":"google-fitbit-deal-mixed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=30181","title":{"rendered":"GOOGLE FITBIT DEAL MIXED"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google\u2019s proposed acquisition of health wearables company Fitbit is getting a varied reception from overseas regulators.<\/p>\n<p>The Europe Commission&#8217;s antitrust enforcer approved the deal last week after Google said it would not use any data collected from the fitness trackers for targeted advertising for at least 10 years.<\/p>\n<p>However, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) declined to approve the deal Monday, saying it will continue its investigation and make a final decision by late March.<\/p>\n<p>On the domestic front, Democratic lawmakers in Congress have called on the Justice Department and Federal Trade Commission to conduct a thorough investigation of the potential acquisition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google\u2019s proposed acquisition of health wearables&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30181"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30182,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30181\/revisions\/30182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}