{"id":54201,"date":"2023-04-11T12:45:05","date_gmt":"2023-04-11T12:45:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=54201"},"modified":"2023-04-11T12:45:05","modified_gmt":"2023-04-11T12:45:05","slug":"report-eu-likely-to-approve-microsoft-deal-for-activision-blizzard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=54201","title":{"rendered":"Report: EU likely to approve Microsoft deal for Activision Blizzard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters is reporting that the European Commission is expected to approve Microsoft&#8217;s acquisition of Activision Blizzard without demanding it sell off parts of the publisher first.<\/p>\n<p>The outlet cites &#8220;three people familiar with the matter&#8221; who indicated that the Xbox maker&#8217;s previous pledges to keep Call of Duty available through platforms and services owned by other companies will be sufficient to satisfy the commission&#8217;s concerns&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamesindustry.biz\/report-eu-likely-to-approve-microsoft-deal-for-activision-blizzard\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters is reporting that the European Commission is expected to approve Microsoft&#8217;s acquisition of Activision<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":54202,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/54201-report-eu-likely-to-approve-microsoft-deal-for-activision-blizzard.jpg",1,1,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/54201-report-eu-likely-to-approve-microsoft-deal-for-activision-blizzard.jpg",1,1,false],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/54201-report-eu-likely-to-approve-microsoft-deal-for-activision-blizzard.jpg",1,1,false],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/54201-report-eu-likely-to-approve-microsoft-deal-for-activision-blizzard.jpg",1,1,false],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/54201-report-eu-likely-to-approve-microsoft-deal-for-activision-blizzard.jpg",1,1,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/54201-report-eu-likely-to-approve-microsoft-deal-for-activision-blizzard.jpg",1,1,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/54201-report-eu-likely-to-approve-microsoft-deal-for-activision-blizzard.jpg",1,1,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/54201-report-eu-likely-to-approve-microsoft-deal-for-activision-blizzard.jpg",1,1,false],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/54201-report-eu-likely-to-approve-microsoft-deal-for-activision-blizzard.jpg",1,1,false],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/54201-report-eu-likely-to-approve-microsoft-deal-for-activision-blizzard.jpg",1,1,false]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=16\" rel=\"category\">Europe<\/a>","tag_info":"Europe","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54201","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=54201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54201\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/54202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}