The European Commission has extended the deadline for making a decision Microsoft$69 billion acquisition Activision Blizzard. The EU’s competition watchdog said in a filing on Thursday that it would push back the initial April 25 deadline for the deal to May 22 after Microsoft submitted remedies to get it approved. While details of the fixes…
The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has published the opinions of six development studios that all think Microsoftacquisition proposed by Activision Blizzard should go ahead. Only one of the six studios that responded was named – 4J Studios, the Scottish developer responsible for the console versions. Minecraft. 4J’s chairman and founder Chris van der…
Microsoft and Activision Blizzard is said to be meeting with the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) this week to discuss their proposed $69 billion merger. By Bloomberg Microsoft’s lawyers attended a private hearing with the regulator to discuss the CMA’s findings and assess the feasibility of the proposed remedies. Last month, the CMA said…
The European Commission has extended the deadline for making a decision MicrosoftA $69 billion acquisition Activision Blizzard. In the application submitted on Wednesday, the EU competition authority announced that it had moved the temporary deadline for concluding the agreement by 10 days to April 25. The move came a day after the EU’s competition boss…
Three companies told Britain’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) they believed Microsoftacquisition proposed by Activision Blizzard would harm competition. As part of it An investigation into the $69 billion dealThe CMA spoke to six third parties who are either existing competitors in console gaming or cloud gaming services or potential competitors should the merger be…