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Salesforce.com to Press Regulators to Block Microsoft-LinkedIn Deal

Company says Microsoft’s $26.2 billion acquisition of social network would be anticompetitive

Salesforce.com Inc. said it would press regulators in the U.S. and Europe to block Microsoft Corp.’s $26.2 billion acquisition of LinkedIn Corp., arguing the deal would hurt competition by giving its business-software rival too much control over the social-networking company’s vast pool of data.

Salesforce’s public broadside against the deal on Thursday came three months after it lost a bidding war for LinkedIn to Microsoft. Both companies’ interest in LinkedIn centers on data generated by its members, who typically...

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