Last week, when we wrote up the clearance of the acquisition of Cisco’s set top business by Technicolor, it struck us that it would be unfair to clear this merger, announced long after the Arris Pace deal, if it then changed the market to such an extent that the Arris Pace deal was then refused. We felt it was likely we were only a few days away from Arris being given the same approvals. This week the Arris pace deal once again overtook the Technicolor Cisco one, gaining approval from the DOJ under the Hart-Scott-Rodino act that defines modern anti-trust rulings in the US, and clearing the Brazilian merger approvals as well. The Technicolor deal has still to get through…