Microsoft faced the FTC in court, defending its giant Activision Blizzard deal. On June 11th, a judge ruled in favor of allowing the deal to proceed, but the FTC might appeal and other hurdles ...

Microsoft’s key Xbox executives will defend the company’s $68.7 billion proposed acquisition of Activision Blizzard against the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) today in federal court.

The Federal Trade Commission has sued to block Microsoft's $69 billion deal to buy Activision Blizzard, claiming that the mega-deal would stifle competition in the lucrative video-game industry ...

Microsoft isn’t completely free of regulatory scrutiny, though, even if it comes out on top against the FTC. It still has the CMA to deal with. What’s next for the CMA ...

And the chair of the FTC, Lena Khan, was grilled on Capitol Hill. At least for now, it appears that the Microsoft-Activision deal will likely close. But Microsoft’s war with the FTC is far from ...

FTC loses bid to block Microsoft's acquisition of Activision Blizzard, which already happened in 2023; CWA union derides Microsoft layoffs when ‘the company is prospering’: ...

The FTC’s investigation of Microsoft, which was first reported by the Financial Times and Bloomberg, is far from the company’s first brush with federal regulators over antitrust issues.

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is reportedly investigating Microsoft like it’s 1998. In the waning days of the Biden administration, outgoing chair Lina Khan’s probe is said to be picking ...

Lina Khan, chair of the Federal Trade Commission, said her agency plans to investigate Microsoft for anticompetitive practices in the cloud market. A recent report from ProPublica found that the ...

Let’s make sure the next generation of Kansans writes its own code, owns its own data and keeps its own dollars without ...

The FTC in 2022 sued to block Microsoft’s $75 billion acquisition of video game maker Activision Blizzard over concerns the deal would harm competitors to its Xbox consoles and cloud-gaming ...