The European Commission has announced that, following its initial investigation into Microsoft’s proposed $69bn acquisition of Activision Blizzard, it will now be opening a more “in-depth” Phase 2 probe to determine the deal’s likely impact on competition.<\/p>\n
In a statement on its website, the European Commission said it had made the decision after its preliminary investigation showed Microsoft’s acquisition may “significantly reduce competition on the markets for the distribution of console and PC video games… The European Commission has announced that, following its initial investigation into Microsoft’s proposed $69bn acquisition<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10559,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lse-mrkt"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/10558-microsofts-activision-blizzard-deal-now-facing-in-depth-investigation-by-eu.jpg",1920,1079,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/10558-microsofts-activision-blizzard-deal-now-facing-in-depth-investigation-by-eu-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/10558-microsofts-activision-blizzard-deal-now-facing-in-depth-investigation-by-eu-300x169.jpg",300,169,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/10558-microsofts-activision-blizzard-deal-now-facing-in-depth-investigation-by-eu-768x432.jpg",640,360,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/10558-microsofts-activision-blizzard-deal-now-facing-in-depth-investigation-by-eu-1024x575.jpg",640,359,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/10558-microsofts-activision-blizzard-deal-now-facing-in-depth-investigation-by-eu-1536x863.jpg",1536,863,true],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/10558-microsofts-activision-blizzard-deal-now-facing-in-depth-investigation-by-eu.jpg",1920,1079,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/10558-microsofts-activision-blizzard-deal-now-facing-in-depth-investigation-by-eu-1024x575.jpg",1024,575,true],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/10558-microsofts-activision-blizzard-deal-now-facing-in-depth-investigation-by-eu-825x575.jpg",825,575,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/10558-microsofts-activision-blizzard-deal-now-facing-in-depth-investigation-by-eu-590x410.jpg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"London Market<\/a>","tag_info":"London Market","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10558\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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