{"id":10383,"date":"2023-06-12T23:38:24","date_gmt":"2023-06-12T21:38:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/06\/12\/us-regulators-move-to-block-microsofts-69bn-activision-blizzard-deal\/"},"modified":"2023-06-12T23:38:24","modified_gmt":"2023-06-12T21:38:24","slug":"us-regulators-move-to-block-microsofts-69bn-activision-blizzard-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/06\/12\/us-regulators-move-to-block-microsofts-69bn-activision-blizzard-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"US regulators move to block Microsoft\u2019s $69bn Activision Blizzard deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Federal Trade Commission opposes purchase, which would be largest in video-game industry history, on antitrust grounds<\/p>\n<p>The Federal Trade Commission asked a court to temporarily block Microsoft\u2019s acquisition of Activision Blizzard on Monday, seeking to halt the deal from closing before the government\u2019s case against the $69bn deal is heard.<\/p>\n<p>The FTC said Microsoft and Activision had signaled the deal could close as soon as Friday, and asked a federal judge to block any final agreement before 11.59pm ET on 15 June.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2023\/jun\/12\/microsoft-activision-blizzard-deal-ftc-regulators\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/02de65ea3d80f00e8906a39bb03af3370a5388f0\/0_293_4399_2640\/master\/4399.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=801f4c188ee421ea203bbfaa3df7468b\" title=\"US regulators move to block Microsoft\u2019s $69bn Activision Blizzard deal\" \/>Federal Trade Commission opposes purchase, which would be largest in video-game industry history, on antitrust grounds<br \/>\nThe Federal Trade Commission asked a court to temporarily block Microsoft\u2019s acquisition of Activision Blizzard on Monday, seeking to halt the deal from closing before the government\u2019s case against the $69bn deal is heard.<br \/>\nThe FTC said Microsoft and Activision had signaled the deal could close as soon as Friday, and asked a federal judge to block any final agreement before 11.59pm ET on 15 June. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Federal Trade Commission opposes purchase, which would be largest in video-game industry history, on antitrust grounds The Federal Trade Commission asked a court to temporarily block Microsoft\u2019s acquisition of Activision Blizzard on Monday, seeking to halt the deal from closing before the government\u2019s case against the $69bn deal is heard. The FTC said Microsoft and &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/06\/12\/us-regulators-move-to-block-microsofts-69bn-activision-blizzard-deal\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">US regulators move to block Microsoft\u2019s $69bn Activision Blizzard deal<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":10384,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10383"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10383\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}