Clear the ring for the next round. After the negative decision of the British CMA against the takeover of Activision Blizzard, the appeal is now pending and the date is set. We remember: although 37 countries, including recently the EU, China and South Korea, have given their approval for the planned takeover of Activision Blizzard ...
It’s a constant back and forth for Microsoft. The billion-dollar purchase of Activision-Blizzard is dragging on like chewing gum, as numerous authorities are opposed. However, the company recently enjoyed success as the EU Commission approved the deal. Now the next country with positive news follows, China also approves the purchase. Microsoft would happily fork out ...
Microsoft’s proposed takeover of Activision Blizzard has now been blocked by the UK Competition and Markets Authority. The CMA said the deal was blocked due to concerns that the deal would change the future of the fast-growing cloud gaming market, which they say would reduce “innovation and less choice for UK gamers for years to ...
To Brazil, Chile, Japan, Saudi Arabia and Serbia, South Africa’s turn to approve Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision/Blizzard. The key point that seems to tie all these markets together from a competitive perspective is always the case call from Duty. The fear of seeing this video game juggernaut in the hands of the American group deters ...
London Tube users were surprised this week to discover very surprising posters on the walls of their stations. We see digital ads too Microsoft and Activision/Blizzard clearly shown together: Microsoft is now running digital adverts for its acquisition of Activision Blizzard on some London Underground stations. It comes a month after placing full-page ads in ...
Sit down and make yourself comfortable, another chapter in the romance of Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision Blizzard is about to begin. This time, the one who gives his version of the legal epic is a famous expert lawyer in patents and antitrust laws whose opinion appears a few days after the agreement that the Redmond ...
New twist on the industry’s largest acquisition. The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has previously announced a new timeline for the submission of its report. Previously scheduled for March 1, the Commission is now due to decide on its position on April 26. An additional lag that opens a larger amplitude in January-February. Period ...
In 2023, we begin as we ended, with the conversation about Microsoft buying Activision Blizzard constantly on the table. The intense communication and significance of the deal put many industry segments on hold after the FTC revealed it intended to formally halt the acquisition with a complaint. To give you some context, the last thing ...
Phil Spencer: ‘Sony is trying to protect its console dominance by making the Xbox smaller’ The discussion escalated in exchanges between Microsoft and opponents of the takeover of Activision-Blizzard. After the FTC announced that would take legal action to block the acquisitionwas the address of Microsoft Games the one who went on stage to present ...
Microsoft’s future projects go through two pillars: on the one hand, the creation of a Super App, which brings together all its services and makes it unnecessary to change the application on our mobile. [La descarga de Diablo Inmortal ya está disponible en Android: así puedes precargarlo] The other vital part for Microsoft is in ...
