Salesforce.com to press regulators to block Microsoft-LinkedIn deal
September 30, 2016 at 06:54 AM EDT
Salesforce.com Inc. says 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.