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FTC drops final challenge to Microsoft’s $69B Activision Blizzard deal
After losing key court fights, the FTC is moving on from its effort to undo the biggest gaming acquisition in history.
FTC abandons Biden-era effort to block Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision Blizzard
The Republican-controlled Federal Trade Commission is abandoning a Biden-era effort to block Microsoft’s purchase of “Call of ...
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FTC drops case against Microsoft-Activision merger, acquisition now left unchallenged
The Federal Trade Commission is no longer challenging the $68.7 billion Microsoft-Activision merger in its administrative ...
Nearly two years later, FTC drops final challenge to Microsoft’s Activision-Blizzard deal
Microsoft’s $75 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard cleared its final U.S. regulatory hurdle as the FTC dropped its ...
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Critics Slam FTC As It Drops Cases Against Pepsi and Microsoft
The FTC has dropped its case against PepsiCo, where it had accused the beverage giant of providing Walmart with a pricing ...
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Microsoft's Years-Long Battle To Buy Activision Blizzard Is Now Finally Over
To appease regulator concerns, Microsoft carved out deals to bring Xbox games to non-Xbox streaming platforms and also ...
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FTC Ends Its 2-Year Case Over Microsoft's Activision Blizzard Deal
This is the end of the FTC’s fight to block a $68.7 billion deal that saw Microsoft purchase Activision Blizzard. The deal ...
FTC drops case over Microsoft's $69 billion Activision Blizzard deal
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FTC drops 2-year case against Microsoft's $68.7 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard
Though the acquisition went ahead in 2023, the FTC has continued to appeal until now.
FTC drops case over Microsoft’s $69B deal for Activision, Reuters reports
B purchase of Activision Blizzard, saying that pursuing the case was not in the public interest, Reuters reports. FTC ...
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FTC ends opposition to Microsoft acquisition of Activision Blizzard
The FTC had previously argued that the Activision Blizzard acquisition would give Microsoft an unfair edge in the gaming ...
FTC drops case against Microsoft’s Activision Blizzard deal
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has officially dropped its case against Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision Blizzard.