Microsoft Wins FTC Brawl Over $69B Activision Blizzard Deal as Merger Nears Close The Federal Trade Commission can still appeal the order denying a preliminary injunction and continue a case ...

Topline The Federal Trade Commission will likely pause an internal trial opposing Microsoft’s $69 billion bid to purchase video game giant Activision Blizzard, just days after the FTC failed to ...

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission cannot stop Microsoft’s proposed $69 billion purchase of Activision Blizzard, a California judge ruled on Tuesday. The deal, originally announced 17 months ago ...

The Federal Trade Commission official on Thursday withdrew the agency's case before an in-house judge that sought to block Microsoft's $75 billion acquisition of game-maker Activision.

Activision Blizzard’s software combined with Microsoft’s capital, computing, and production capacity would create a monopoly and edge competitor Sony out of the market, the FTC further reasoned.

The Federal Trade Commission will continue to challenge Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision Blizzard. The decision comes months after a U.S. appeals court denied the FTC’s bid to pause the ...

FTC v. Microsoft is over, and the judge has decided to deny the FTC’s preliminary injunction request. Microsoft had warned it would be forced to walk away from its Activision Blizzard deal.

Microsoft’s plan to acquire Activision Blizzard may be hitting a roadblock soon. According to a report from Bloomberg, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) will review this landmark games ...

The FTC noted that Activision, maker of bestselling games such as Call of Duty and World of Warcraft, was among "a very small number of top video game developers" that publish titles for multiple ...

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission is suing Microsoft over its planned $68.7 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard, saying that the deal “would enable Microsoft to suppress competitors to ...

Microsoft laid out its case against the U.S. Federal Trade Commission’s attempt to block its proposed $68.7 billion acquisition of Activision-Blizzard, describing itself as “the third-place ...

The Federal Trade Commission asked a court to block Microsoft’s $69 billion acquisition of video gaming giant Activision Blizzard with a preliminary injunction. The FTC sued the companies on ...