October 15, 2024
Microsoft reached an agreement ending a challenge from a group of gamers targeting its $69 billion deal for Activision Blizzard as a merger challenge from the Federal Trade Commission remains pending at the Ninth Circuit.
June 18, 2024
Microsoft told the Ninth Circuit on Monday that the U.S. Supreme Court's recent ruling requiring labor regulators to meet a four-factor test in order to win a preliminary injunction undercuts the Federal Trade Commission's bid to halt the company's $68.7 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard Inc.
June 05, 2024
Microsoft Corp. says the Ninth Circuit should reject a "bevy of additional, extra-record 'facts'" seeking to hold up the recent layoffs of 1,900 Activision and Xbox employees as proof that the tech giant's acquisition of Activision Blizzard Inc. was anticompetitive.
May 29, 2024
A private group of gamers is pointing to Microsoft's recent layoffs of 1,900 Activision and XBox employees as evidence of market harms stemming from Microsoft Corp.'s acquisition of Activision Blizzard Inc., as the group seeks to revive a private antitrust suit challenging the merger in the Ninth Circuit.
February 08, 2024
Microsoft on Thursday criticized the Federal Trade Commission's "incomplete and misleading" assertion that the company's plan to lay off 1,900 video game workers undercuts its claim that Activision Blizzard Inc. would be maintained as an independent business while the commission challenges the gaming company's $68.7 billion acquisition.
February 07, 2024
The Federal Trade Commission, which is appealing a district court's refusal to block the $68.7 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard, told the Ninth Circuit on Wednesday that a plan to lay off 1,900 video game workers undercuts assertions of an independent post-deal Activision.
January 18, 2024
Microsoft is asking a Federal Trade Commission administrative judge for authority to join in on the FTC's upcoming deposition of executives from Sony and Ubisoft, saying its inclusion in the proceedings would help it defend its acquisition of Activision Blizzard.
January 10, 2024
The Federal Trade Commission's in-house judge won't let Microsoft seek agency assistance demanding additional documents from Sony as the Xbox maker continues to defend its $68.7 billion purchase of Activision from an ongoing FTC challenge.
January 08, 2024
Microsoft must give Federal Trade Commission attorneys discovery into any potential alternative cloud streaming rights arrangements it mulled with Ubisoft or any other video game companies to appease competition concerns over its newfound control over Activision's massive gaming portfolio, under an FTC in-house judge's ruling.
December 06, 2023
Attorneys for the Federal Trade Commission and for a group of gamers told the Ninth Circuit on Wednesday that a lower court wrongly denied their respective preliminary injunction requests to pause Microsoft's $69 billion purchase of Activision Blizzard, which closed in October, saying insufficient scrutiny was applied to the blockbuster deal.