UK further restricts MS and Activision merge

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The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has restricted Microsoft and Activision Blizzard from "acquiring an interest" in each other.

It published an interim order stating they would need "prior written consent" from the UK regulator before making acquisitions between the companies.

The order applies to the businesses as well as their subsidiaries.

It comes two weeks after the regulator blocked Microsoft's $68.7bn (£54.8bn) deal to buy Activision Blizzard.

 

 

 

 UK giving another middle finger to Microshit! As if the deal wasn't already dead enough!

 

[Cell 419]

I occasionally forget what a shithouse company Microsoft really is every now and again, and then shit like this comes out: 

 

https://www.gamespot.com/articles/microsoft-workers-wont-get-annual-pay-bump-despite-18-3-billion-in-profit-in-past-3-months/1100-6513990/

 

Good job the CMA can see through there BS. 

Edited May 11, 2023 by Cell

[Playstation Tablet 1,725]

The EU ruling will probably be epic.

[Substatic 420]

Wasn't it approved everywhere else in the world? 

[Goukosan 2,249]

2 hours ago, Substatic said:

Wasn't it approved everywhere else in the world? 

 

No

[jehurey 3,227]

LOL, so in other words, if Microsoft and Activision tried to sell off portions of the company in pieces, the CMA just blocked them from doing so.

 

lemmings keep on losing,

 

Its only appropriate, Microsoft attempting to be clever is about as successful as seeing lemmings on this forum attempting to be clever. It never works.

[TLHBO 2,160]

The shills still think it's going through

 

Microsoft will learn not the red coats are not the pushovers they thought we were This time, it's personal.