{"id":123971,"date":"2025-05-23T01:10:09","date_gmt":"2025-05-23T01:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/123971\/"},"modified":"2025-05-23T01:10:09","modified_gmt":"2025-05-23T01:10:09","slug":"ftc-drops-case-against-microsofts-activision-blizzard-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/123971\/","title":{"rendered":"FTC drops case against\u00a0Microsoft\u2019s Activision Blizzard deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has officially dropped its case against Microsoft\u2019s acquisition of Activision Blizzard. The FTC filed an order to dismiss its complaint on Thursday, just days after it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/news\/662883\/ftc-appeal-microsoft-activision-deal-acquisition\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">lost an appeal<\/a> for a preliminary injunction to prevent Microsoft from finalizing its acquisition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">\u201cThe Commission has determined that the public interest is best served by dismissing the administrative litigation in this case,\u201c says the FTC <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ftc.gov\/system\/files\/ftc_gov\/pdf\/d9412_2025.05.22_commission_order_dismissing_complaint_.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">in its filing<\/a>. The filing brings an end to the FTC\u2019s fight to try and block Microsoft\u2019s $68.7 billion deal, nearly two years after it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2023\/6\/12\/23758194\/ftc-microsoft-activision-blizzard-complaint-block-acquisition-call-of-duty\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">originally sought<\/a> a temporary restraining order and injunction from a US federal district court.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">\u201cToday\u2019s decision is a victory for players across the country and for common sense in Washington, DC,\u201d says Microsoft vice chair and president Brad Smith. \u201cWe are grateful to the FTC for today\u2019s announcement.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has officially dropped its case against Microsoft\u2019s acquisition of Activision Blizzard. The FTC&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":123972,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[51,77,1583,507,12,326,16,15,289],"class_list":{"0":"post-123971","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-gaming","11":"tag-microsoft","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-tech","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-xbox"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114554485114096726","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123971\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}