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:Britain's competition regulator on Friday said Photoshop owner Adobe Inc's $20 billion buyout of cloud-based designer platform Figma could 'reduce innovation' and may be referred to a deeper investigation. The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) said the deal would be referred to a phase 2 investigation

:Britain's competition regulator on Friday said Photoshop owner Adobe Inc's $20 billion buyout of cloud-based designer platform Figma could"reduce innovation" and may be referred to a deeper investigation.

"We remain confident in the merits of the case as Figma's product design is an adjacency to Adobe's core creative products and Adobe has no meaningful plans to compete in the product design space," Adobe said in a statement emailed to Reuters.

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