Big Tech M&A alerts — EU gatekeeper filings

Why this feed exists

The Digital Markets Act makes the seven designated gatekeepers — Apple, Alphabet, Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, ByteDance, and Booking — notify the European Commission of every acquisition in the digital sector, including small tuck-ins that fall below normal merger-review thresholds. The Commission publishes each notification on a public register.

That register is the origin document, not coverage of it. When Apple bought the observability startup SigScalr, the deal closed on 12 March 2026 and stayed silent for four months — until the Commission posted the filing on 13 July, and the press wrote it up from there. This feed watches the same register the reporters do.

What each alert includes

An AI headline naming the parties and what the target does, the filing's official summary with a link to the register, and a Market read: how the deal fits the acquirer's strategy and whether it reads through to a public competitor. Every alert tags the acquirer and the sector, so you decide what reaches you.

You choose the signal

The feed carries all seven gatekeepers. You filter it: only Apple, only AI deals, or everything. We don't decide which acquirer matters to you — the same per-feed controls that run every other feed do that here.

One thing we're honest about

The Commission publishes on a lag — weeks, sometimes months, after a deal signs. So this feed puts you first in the public cycle the moment Brussels posts a filing, not ahead of the regulator. The SigScalr deal is the proof: the filing is how the news broke.

Source and credit

Content comes from the European Commission's DMA Article 14 acquisitions register and is reused under the Commission's open licence (CC BY 4.0). Every alert links back to the register and credits the European Commission. Know First is not affiliated with the European Commission.

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