Just a few days after losing two years of opposition to the acquisition by Microsoft Activision Blizzard, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) officially abandoned its case.
Appeal of FTC to block the Microsoft agreement worth $ 69 billion to take over the company for Call of Duty was rejected by the 9th Court of Appeal in San Francisco on May 7further strengthening of the purchase that was Originally announced At the end of 2022, it was a movement that a three -person panel decided, which he ended for the interrogation of FTC Decision of July 2023 To enable Microsoft to finalize its purchase.
As we summed up then Microsoft Activision Blizzard has been in the face of control by Microsoft Activision for over three years.Both in the United States and around the world, with some parties fearing that the takeover of popular franchises, such as Call of Duty, become exclusive Xbox. Microsoft confirmed He was not interested in excluding some franchises for long exclusive periodsAnd he sold Ubisoft the law in the Activision-Blizzard cloud to satisfy the opposition of power over the competition and the markets in Great Britain (CMA).
While the challenges have still appeared throughout 2023 Complete the purchase of Activision Blizzard in October of the same year.
FTC’s cancellation could present a behind schedule road blockade. However, he reports The VergeThe commission completely rejected its complaint, finding briefly filing It was issued on May 22: “The Commission determined that the public interest is best to reject administrative courts in this case.”
“Therefore, it was ordered that the complaint in this case should be rejected here.”
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