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Getty scraps its $3.7bn Shutterstock merger after a UK regulator won’t budge

A $3.7bn plan to merge the world’s two biggest stock-photo libraries has collapsed. The reason is not America, where regulators waved it through. It is Britain, where a single condition proved a deal-breaker. Getty Images will terminate its merger with Shutterstock, the company said this week. Its board voted unanimously to walk away after the […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]

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The U.K.'s competition regulator conditioned its approval on a sale of Shutterstock's editorial business, a requirement Getty's board rejected [...]

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