According to a Jez Corden article (apologies), Reuters conceded that their sourced info is weeks-old. EU could still approve given how they have been behaving during this process imo though.
Microsoft's acquisition of Activison Blizzard
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Yeah, I just read the Reuters article and it says that they heard this from their sources back in March. Not saying it won't happen, but things could have changed.
Possible doesn't mean it's probable. These people should learn the meanings. And CAT can't say shit to CMA. CAT can just grand the appeal or deny it, it is all the power it has.
Like I said: this news is from March. there's nothing to see here.
We're talking the same Bloomberg that employs Bloomberg Takahashi, known PlayStation FUD artist?
Yeah I wouldn't take their opinion with much on this, either. Like with the FTC and CMA, the only word that matters is the EC's own official statement. And we still have a bit of a wait for that to come through.
It's going to be funny if the 15th comes around and we don't even hear anything.
Looking through it a bit more, even the original source for all of this admits that what they heard is from March.
Better off to shut the fuck up sometimes especially after the incorrect calling of the CMA decision. How did they not put 2 and 2 together? Ask the source after the rejection by the CMA you dopey cunt of a journalist
It really does feel like an attempt to pump the stock before it permanently settles in the 70s. There must be some angry bag holders on Wall Street. Fuck them.
I've changed my mind about @Sleepy Brown. Trolling is fine but it's just the same copy and paste spam that'll vanish with him when all avenues of appeal are extinguished in the UK. Why let him suck up this much oxygen? @ManPhlaps was the same super cocky figure and never showed his face again after the CMA crushed his ballsack and Xbox's hopes and dreams.
I've changed my mind about @Sleepy Brown. Trolling is fine but it's just the same copy and paste spam that'll vanish with him when all avenues of appeal are extinguished in the UK. Why let him suck up this much oxygen? @ManPhlaps was the same super cocky figure and never showed his face again after the CMA crushed his ballsack and Xbox's hopes and dreams.
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It's also possible that I'll get a blowjob from Jennifer Lawrence. Is it probable? Not. But as long as we're both alive and on the same planet, it's possible.
How Big Tech's 'economic consultants' undermine EU competition policy
Spamming the regulator | Corporate Europe Observatory
Research by CEO and LobbyControl shows that a little-known band of economic consultancies are managing to fly under the radar on behalf of their tech clients. These consultancies are effectively 'spamming the regulator' with supposedly neutral reports to influence the EU's competition policy and...corporateeurope.org
Big Tech is the biggest lobby sector in the EU by spending, ahead of pharma, fossil fuels, finance, or chemicals. And a significant part of that powerful lobbying firepower in Brussels is wielded by Google, Amazon, Meta (formerly Facebook), Apple, and Microsoft (known as 'GAFAM'). Together, GAFAM spends more than €26.5 million on influencing the EU institutions.
At least we'll know that if the EC approve the deal with the remedies currently on the table, we'll know there's at least a 50% chance it had little to do with the merits of arguments in favor of the deal and more with what money and favors were offered up BTS in exchange for the deal's passing.
Which as others have been saying would make the EC look very weak and prone to corporations running all over them, which ultimately is never good for actual customers. But if that's what they want for their markets, it's their choice. Considering the EC seemed even more focused on cloud (at least IIRC) than the CMA and had bigger concerns (again IIRC), if MS's behavioral remedies were no good for the CMA I find it very hard to believe they'll be enough for the EC.
Yeah, noticed that too. It's old info, so nothing worth really pushing at the moment. The fact two month old info is being regurgitated days before the EC's decision, rather than any actually new info, seems like a last-minute gamble to try boosting morale among the pro-acquisition crowd before an actual verdict is given.
We saw some of these same tactics before the CMA's decision and look what happened there.
The question is why do all these Xbox fanboys sound so douchey and behave so arrogantly? Even the people working at MS like Brad Smith is behaving like a fucking cunt. And don't get me started on the hypocrite "good guy" Phil.
It might be very telling that Phil's new PR line is that ABK is "Not their strategy but an accelerant to their strategy ", almost as though they're trying to soften the blow if things ultimately don't go well.
It's also interesting that Google is mentioned as one of the companies that lobby the EU, and they're against the deal.
It's all about exit liquidity for institutional investors, nothing to do with morale. It makes bag holders out of the Xbox fanbase, but anyone who got in at 85 a share expecting 95 is already underwater and on their way to insolvency if they over leveraged, like I suspect butthurt baby Florian Mueller did. For a grown man to sound that hysterical and use the language he does ("injustice" in relation to a well measured and rigorous decision by the CMA to block the deal for 10 years), he must be up to his eyeballs in debt.
The article feels like an incentive to pump and dump of shares before the inevitable rejection from the EC
EA says they don't care one way or the other what happens during a call with investors.
www.videogameschronicle.com
EA’s CEO is ‘indifferent’ on Microsoft’s Activision deal, claims EA ‘will still be the number one Xbox publisher’ | VGC
Plus Andrew Wilson says EA is open to potential mergers in the future…
www.videogameschronicle.com
EA was their next target (or maybe first?) so of course he won't say anything bad that kind of deal.EA says they don't care one way or the other what happens during a call with investors.
EA’s CEO is ‘indifferent’ on Microsoft’s Activision deal, claims EA ‘will still be the number one Xbox publisher’ | VGC
Plus Andrew Wilson says EA is open to potential mergers in the future…
EA wants space for battlefield to succeed.EA says they don't care one way or the other what happens during a call with investors.
EA’s CEO is ‘indifferent’ on Microsoft’s Activision deal, claims EA ‘will still be the number one Xbox publisher’ | VGC
Plus Andrew Wilson says EA is open to potential mergers in the future…