The US FTC has officially announced that it will block Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision Blizzard. The first hammer fell! The FTC in the US has today announcethat the acquisition of Activision Blizzard by Microsoft will be blocked and is preparing a corresponding lawsuit. The reason for the blocking is that Microsoft allegedly would have an ...
The Activision-Blizzard takeover soap opera is still far from over, although we now have some good news for Xbox fans. Apparently, according to a new report published in the New York Postthis transaction would be closer to completion after one of the FTC judges changed his mind. This brings the Activision purchase one step closer ...
Things don’t seem to be calming down between Microsoft and regulators trying to stop Activision Blizzard from taking over $69 billion. However, it would seem that the FTC, the American regulator, plans to sue Microsoft for having a movement which would seek to control part of the industry, generating a monopoly in video games, all ...
Microsoft’s chances of completing its $70 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard look a little slim this week. Citing three sources familiar with the matter, Politico reports that the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) will “likely” try to block the deal with an antitrust lawsuit. The news comes as the deal comes under scrutiny from Britain ...
picture: OnlyPhoto (Getty Images) Politically are reporting that the Federal Trade Commission “is likely to file an antitrust lawsuit to block Microsoft’s $69 billion acquisition of video game giant Activision Blizzard,” according to three people with knowledge of the matter. the FTC, emboldened by their recent success in preventing the merger of book publishers Penguin ...
although sony claim that it will not make Bunge A console-exclusive game, it’s still under investigation by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission. Sony’s announcement earlier this year that it would buy Bungie for a massive $3.6 billion clearly caught the FTC’s attention. According to The Information (paywall, via PC Gamer), the FTC has launched an ...
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC), the agency responsible for promoting it consumer rights and the abolition and ban of practices that threaten free competition In the United States, it has announced that it will begin an investigation into the acquisition of assets made by major technology companies. The center has sent requests to Apple, Amazon, ...
