Microsoft Closes $69 Billion Acquisition of Activision Blizzard

Concluding 20 months of an often-contentious approval process with regulators in the US, EU, UK, and New Zealand, including defeating the Federal Trade Commission in a US federal court and restructuring the deal to appease the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) in the UK, Microsoft closed its acquisition of Activision Blizzard, publisher of Call of Duty, World of Warcraft, and Diablo. This report examines the implications of this merger.
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