Google closes deal to buy Fitbit as US, Australia probes continue

WASHINGTON (REUTERS) - Search and advertising giant Google closed its deal to buy fitness tracking company Fitbit, the companies said on Thursday (Jan 14), even as US and Australian competition regulators said they were continuing probes of the US$2.1 billion (S$2.78 billion) transaction. The US Justice Department, which sued Alphabet's Google in October for allegedly violating antitrust law in its search and search advertising businesses, said it...