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FTC loses appeal to stop Microsoft’s Activision Blizzard deal that already happened | The deal went through in 2023 after a court denied the FTC’s request for an injunction. An appeals court today upheld that denial.
Microsoft completed the acquisition in October 2023.
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has lost its appeal of a ruling in its case against Microsoft’s $68.7 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard. In 2023, the FTC requested a preliminary injunction to prevent the companies from finalizing the deal while its legal challenge to the acquisition from 2022 was in progress. A weekly newsletter by David Pierce designed to tell you everything you need to download, watch, read, listen to, and explore that fits in The Verge’s universe.
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