A US federal appeals court has struck down the Federal Trade Commission's Click-to-Cancel rule, which would've mandated easy ...

The US regulator's 'Click to Cancel' was supposed to take effect next week. But an appeals court has ruled it invalid after cable companies and industry groups sued.

Only last month, a federal appeals court in the US rejected a legal challenge by the US Federal Trade Commission to Microsoft's purchase of Activision Blizzard. Staff costs for the 18-month period ...

A move by tech giant Microsoft to cut costs last year at the Irish arm of gaming giant Activision Blizzard, which produces the likes of Call of Duty, Candy Crush and World of Warcraft, resulted in the ...

Earlier cost-cutting measures have already been extensive. In January 2024, Microsoft laid off 1,900 employees in the gaming division. Another 650 were let go in September, leading to the closure of ...

As reported by Bloomberg, as part of the company’s reorganisation strategy, major layoffs are going to be taking place next week at Xbox. The report also mentioned that managers at the gaming arm of ...

FTC abandons Biden-era effort to block Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision Blizzard Biden's FTC tried to block the acquisition in court, saying it would hurt other game makers' access to ...

The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals issued an opinion Wednesday affirming a denial of a preliminary injunction the FTC had sought for Microsoft's now-completed acquisition of Activision Blizzard.

The FTC lawyer also cited in the letter Microsoft’s intention “to maintain the pre-merger status quo” with its “vertical acquisition of Activision,” specifically contrasted with a ...

The FTC is accusing Microsoft of contradicting its pledge to allow Activision Blizzard to operate independently post-acquisition.

The Federal Trade Commission isn’t happy with the outcome of Microsoft’s $68.7 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard, telling a court on Wednesday that Microsoft’s recent layoffs ...

Microsoft issued layoffs of nearly 2,000 people across its gaming division back at the end of January, and now the FTC is stating that Microsoft misrepresented its plans for Activision following ...