{"id":35279,"date":"2023-06-16T20:29:00","date_gmt":"2023-06-16T20:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gamergog.com\/index.php\/2023\/06\/16\/microsoft-could-abandon-its-activision-blizzard-acquisition-thanks-to-the-ftc\/"},"modified":"2023-06-18T19:25:04","modified_gmt":"2023-06-18T19:25:04","slug":"microsoft-could-abandon-its-activision-blizzard-acquisition-thanks-to-the-ftc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gamergog.com\/index.php\/2023\/06\/16\/microsoft-could-abandon-its-activision-blizzard-acquisition-thanks-to-the-ftc\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Might Abandon Its Activision Blizzard Acquisition Thanks To The FTC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"436\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.psu.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/ActivisionBlizzard-1.jpeg\"\/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"436\" src=\"https:\/\/www.psu.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/ActivisionBlizzard-1.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt=\"\"\/><\/noscript><\/p>\n<p>Whereas it may need seen like the largest hurdle <strong>Microsoft<\/strong> must soar to get its acquisition of <strong>Activision Blizzard<\/strong> by way of was the <strong>UK\u2019s CMA<\/strong>, it now appears to be like as if it might be the <strong>FTC<\/strong> that really kill the deal.<\/p>\n<p>Noticed by TweakTown, in latest court docket filings its Microsoft\u2019s personal authorized counsel that admit if the decide grants the preliminary injunction that the FTC is requesting, that would end in Microsoft abandoning the merger.<\/p>\n<p>Whereas it might be the case that issues go Microsoft\u2019s means, if awarded the injunction, Microsoft\u2019s counsel cites how the authorized battle which might comply with would transfer at a tempo that\u2019s \u201cglacial,\u201d permitting issues to doubtlessly drag on for years.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft\u2019s counsel calls it \u201ca timeframe no merger may survive.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Although Microsoft and Activision are hoping to get by way of the attraction course of for the UK\u2019s CMA fast as it could, even when Microsoft wins its attraction that will solely restart the method with the CMA opening a second investigation into the deal, at which level it may nonetheless return a block choice.<\/p>\n<p>There could be a world during which Microsoft will get the deal by way of in every single place besides the UK and has to work round that market in bizarre methods, however there\u2019s no world during which Microsoft would do the identical with the US market.<\/p>\n<p>In any case, it nonetheless looks as if it\u2019ll be a while earlier than the destiny of the deal is actually determined.<\/p>\n<p>Supply \u2013 [TweakTown]<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.psu.com\/news\/microsoft-could-abandon-its-activision-blizzard-acquisition-thanks-to-the-ftc\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Whereas it may need seen like the largest hurdle Microsoft must soar to get its acquisition of Activision Blizzard by way of was the UK\u2019s CMA, it now appears to be like as if it might be the FTC that really kill the deal. Noticed by TweakTown, in latest court docket filings its Microsoft\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35281,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[12146,212,753,754,2566,1147],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gamergog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35279"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gamergog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gamergog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gamergog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gamergog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35279"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gamergog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35280,"href":"https:\/\/gamergog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35279\/revisions\/35280"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gamergog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gamergog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gamergog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gamergog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}