Xbox parent Microsoft closed its $75 billion acquisition of the video game giant Activision Blizzard on Friday – despite the Federal Trade Commission’s ongoing fight to prevent the landmark deal.

The Microsoft-Activision case is a vertical merger, however, where the companies operate in the same industry but provide different services. That can make it harder to predict what concessions ...

Microsoft valued the Activision deal at $68.7 billion when it announced the acquisition in early 2022, “inclusive of Activision Blizzard’s net cash,” though Microsoft agreed to pay $95 in ...

File - Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick leaves the Phillip Burton Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse in San Francisco on June 28, 2023. Microsoft, which owns the Xbox gaming system, closed ...

Microsoft completed its $69 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard after clearing a series of regulators’ hurdles since the deal was first announced in January 2022.

Activision last week brought offline the Microsoft Store version of Call of Duty: WWII as the company was investigating ...

Microsoft closed its $69 billion takeover of Activision Blizzard — the biggest-ever M&A deal in the gaming sector — in October 2023 following concessions Microsoft made to address regulatory ...

Microsoft settled on Monday an antitrust lawsuit contesting its $69 billion dollar acquisition deal to buy Activision Blizzard in 2022. Details of the settlement were not disclosed in court ...

Microsoft is laying off around 1,900 employees in its gaming division just weeks after completing its $69 billion acquisition of video game giant Activision Blizzard.. Phil Spencer, the CEO of ...

Microsoft has responded to the FTC’s claims that Microsoft laying off 1,900 Activision Blizzard and Xbox employees runs counter to its representations in court.. “Activision was already ...

If you haven’t heard the news already, Xbox finally closed its Activision Blizzard acquisition deal to the tune of $69 billion. With this move, Activision CEO Bobby Kotick is getting ousted at ...

Blizzard and Activision hit with layoffs as Microsoft cuts 1,900 jobs Blizzard's President Mike Ybarra and Chief Design Officer Allen Adham, the company’s co-founder, also are leaving the company.