A federal decide has set a date for the primary pre-trial listening to between Microsoft and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). The two go to courtroom on January third to spar over the destiny of Microsoft’s $69 billion bid to purchase Call of Duty writer Activision Blizzard. Microsoft and Activision introduced the merger at the beginning of 2022. At the time, the tech big mentioned it anticipated the deal to shut no later than June 2023. Last month, the FTC sued Microsoft to dam the acquisition from shifting ahead.
“Microsoft has already shown that it can and will withhold content from its gaming rivals,” FTC Director Holly Vedova mentioned on the time. “Today we seek to stop Microsoft from gaining control over a leading independent game studio and using it to harm competition in multiple dynamic and fast-growing gaming markets.”
The FTC is predicted to face an uphill battle attempting to persuade a decide of the deserves of its case. For one, Microsoft isn’t pushing for a “horizontal” merger that may…
2023-01-01 15:33:20
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