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Amazon calls off $1.4B planned purchase of iRobot

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Amazon has canceled plans to buy Roomba maker iRobot for $1.4 billion.

Officials with iRobot said the deal has “no path to regulatory approval in the European Union."

The Roomba maker also announced it's laying off roughly 31% of its workforce as part of a restructuring.

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