Washington regulators have initiated an extended review of the $1.75bn sale of IBM's personal computer division to Lenovo, China's biggest PC maker, according to a person familiar with the plan.
The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States, an interagency government group, decided to extend a routine 30-day review of IBM's disposal to the Chinese group following the intervention of several Republican congressmen who questioned whether the deal presented a threat on national security grounds.
