To reiterate, Microsoft plans to acquire Activision Blizzard at an estimated cost of $70 billion. The British Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) remains a concern since it initially blocked ...

Chris Young, Microsoft’s head of business development, is stepping down after four years with the company. Known for his ...

The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has restricted Microsoft and Activision Blizzard from "acquiring an interest" in each other. It published an interim order stating they would need ...

Reuters Activision Blizzard is based in California but the deal also needs approval in Europe The remedies offered so far by Microsoft to try to persuade the CMA that this deal would not have a ...

That would be the UK’s CMA, where Microsoft is trying to hammer out ... this should have almost no near-term effect on players of any Activision Blizzard games. Longer term, it’s possible ...

The competition watchdog is planning to slash its head count by around ten per cent after overshooting its budget last year.

The new chair of the competition watchdog has pledged to speed up its decision making and bring in outside expertise as part of plans to reshape the agency following months of criticism.

The acquisition cleared its final hurdle the morning the deal closed, after Microsoft’s Activision Blizzard deal was cleared by UK regulator the CMA. The United States FTC says it still intends ...

Microsoft refuted a recent report claiming the Activision Blizzard acquisition hasn't had a significant impact on Xbox Game Pass or its overall gaming business. The company highlighted the fact ...

A new report shows that Microsoft's acquisition of Activision-Blizzard hasn't been as helpful to Xbox Game Pass as the company hoped.

Microsoft recently ... $69 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard. But regulators do not appear to buying it. The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority, the CMA, has been one of the most ...

Lululemon, which is now worth around $50 billion, will replace Activision Blizzard in the S&P 500 following the latter's takeover by Microsoft. Britain's competition watchdog, the CMA, said ...