TL;DR: The FTC has officially dismissed its antitrust case against Microsoft's $68.7 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard, ending legal challenges to the largest video game merger in history.

Microsoft Corp.(MSFT) has cleared a major legal hurdle in its high-profile pursuit of Activision Blizzard Inc. (ATVI) acquisition, as a federal appeals court backed a lower court's decision not to ...

After losing key court fights, the FTC is moving on from its effort to undo the biggest gaming acquisition in history. Most Innovative Companies Super-Early-Rate Deadline: This Friday, July 25 LOGIN ...

Ninth Circuit backs Microsoft in Activision deal, FTC drops case citing public interest and shifting regulatory priorities. FTC ends push to block Microsoft’s $69B Activision deal as agency ...

FTC pauses lawsuit against Microsoft-Activision merger, but agency could continue suing Class-action lawsuit filed against AI image generators by a group of artists Europe prepares statement of ...

Vivendi SA has completed the merger of its video game business with Activision Inc., a combination joins popular titles such as "Guitar Hero'' with the biggest online game, "World of Warcraft.'' ...

The FTC’s primary theory was that the proposed transaction, a vertical merger of a content-platform operator (Microsoft), and content producer (Activision Blizzard), would substantially lessen ...

Activision Blizzard, Inc. (Nasdaq: ATVI) Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick today sent the following letter to all employees. Team, I wanted to provide a b ...

Microsoft and Activision Blizzard Work Towards Merger Despite Setbacks And, more than 8,000 authors have asked leading tech companies to not use their work to train AI systems without permission ...

Microsoft's acquisition of Activision faced a lot of pushback from the likes of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) when its plans were announced, but one group that didn't give up even after the ...