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Call of Duty account users have received messages that they now need to add their birthday and/or get parental consent to ...
A US federal appeals court has struck down the Federal Trade Commission’s Click-to-Cancel rule, effectively blocking regulations that would have made it easier for consumers to cancel subscription ...
The US regulator's 'Click to Cancel' was supposed to take effect next week. But an appeals court has ruled it invalid after ...
The US Federal Trade Commission has dropped its antitrust case against Microsoft ’s $69 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard. On May 22nd, the FTC issued an order to dismiss its case, stating ...
It looks like the FTC has given the Microsoft deal with Activision Blizzard its blessing as it drops it case against it.
President Trump's antitrust cops ended a government effort to unwind Microsoft's $69 billion acquisition of video game maker Activision Blizzard that began during the Biden administration.
The FTC used Microsoft’s closure of development studios like Tango Gameworks to bolster its claim that the tech company is too powerful to be held accountable after its Activision-Blizzard merger.
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 ...
The FTC has written to the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, taking issue with Microsoft's recent layoffs across Activision Blizzard.
The FTC asserts that Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision, which makes the wildly popular “Call of Duty” series, would enable the combined company “to suppress competitors to its Xbox ...
Activision Blizzard’s software combined with Microsoft’s capital, computing, and production capacity would create a monopoly and edge competitor Sony out of the market, the FTC further reasoned.
Topline The Federal Trade Commission will likely pause an internal trial opposing Microsoft’s $69 billion bid to purchase video game giant Activision Blizzard, just days after the FTC failed to ...