Microsoft's acquisition of Activison Blizzard
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The info got out that the 10 year "deal" is basically gives Activision 100% its revenue from games and DLCs sale. I don't know who in their right mind would think it is a good deal.
I don't know why FTC didn't bring that up, consider they are professional morons.
Personally i'm not holding my breath on this appeal going anywhere. The system is rotten to the core.
But it definitely is a good point to appeal on. The thing is her saying that it's not enough for the FTC to prove that it "may" harm competition is pretty much her conceding that's what they manged to do. Now if the court agrees that it "may" harm is enough then that might help the FTC.
Another thing she made the distinction between "may" and "will", so can't wriggle her way out of that by saying both can be taken as similar.
But again i'm not holding my breath.
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You thought the PI had a "real" shot lol. PI always had a small shot to go through. Getting an emergency Stay at the 9th circuit is even harder. Judges just have to agree on 1 of Judge Corley key points, and then the emergency stay fails.
The point of appealing is to buy time to prevent ABK closing, the judge is corporate slave disregard all procedures, even make immature mistakes to please MS.
I don't think FTC winning the appeal here since they are professional clowns, but it would definitely help stalling the deal before deadline.
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That's not even half the story, but I'm aware that Xbox Evangelists are unable to think without marching orders:
Microsoft and Activision exploring changes to $75bn deal, says UK regulator
Restructured transaction could trigger a fresh antitrust probe, warns Competition and Markets Authority
www.ft.com
What the CMA said was, essentially, "if you want to restructure the deal we're willing to open a new investigation and re-analyse its market impact". The CAT hearing fell because Microsoft and ABK dropped out of it. Without them, there's no court case to be had.
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Additionally, the timeline was as follows
- CMA provided its provisional remedies, which included partial or complete divestiture of several businesses within ABK
- MS were unwilling to divest parts of the business
- CMA blocked the deal, and MS appealed to the CAT
- The CMA says that they need to revert to the current decision (prohibition), and that they will need to submit a new deal that satisfies their concerns, which includes partial or complete divestiture
- Once MS and ABK agree to that new deal, a new probe will be launched by the CMA, which may or may not allow the deal to go through
This i the part that isn't clear to me, wouldn't that mean this new deal would have to go through the approval of all countries regulators again if it is substantially different? If not that basically suggests that MS can ringfence the UK and divest solely in that jurisdiction but not anywhere else.
Is it possible that ABK being taken off that market watch list is a last ditch bluff from MS?
Why are you guys even debating @KingOfTheDead ? Can't you tell a disingenuous crap-poster when you see one? That person has zero interest in a genuine discussion; everything they say is just going to be a way to suck Microsoft off. These scripts have a million ways of saying the same useless & inaccurate things, that's how AIs work.
How Xbox gonna come and make Barbie feel slimey when Tom Kalinskie actually ran SOA, ffs.
They've been doing it for a while the disgusting paid off shills perhaps they can apologise for nuking Japan since they want to make them out as the bad guy over video games
They've been making a big deal out of Sony being Japanese for a while now. Pretty ridiculous.
Microsoft Deal Could Close Soon With Nasdaq Set to Remove Activision Blizzard From Indexes - IGN
Activision Blizzard is set to leave Nasdaq's indexes, indicating Microsoft may soon complete its $69 billion buyout of the company.
ABK leaving Nasdaq July 17?
Does this mean anything important or no? Or is this a desperate move?
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This is so embarrassing & hilarious that Weebs who love Japanese stuff do stick with the most American company (MS) ever on the planet than a Japanese one like Sony or Nintendo. It’s just so ironic. It’s always the Goblins with an Anime avatar, which are the biggest clowns. See that one freak (something like Senjutsu) with the Naruto avatar for example.
Exactly what I was thinking they'll make a big song & dance about games developed by Japanese Devs / publishers (final fantasy obviously being the best example) & even go as far as say how much they hope they acquire a Japanese publisher like sega , while their beloved Microsoft & US government are attacking the Japanese for being Japanese & not selling out to the US
Its American politics looking for a come up, ms most likely in his pocket. And ofc republican….