{"id":83275,"date":"2023-04-26T15:34:04","date_gmt":"2023-04-26T11:34:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/?p=83275"},"modified":"2023-04-26T15:34:07","modified_gmt":"2023-04-26T11:34:07","slug":"britain-blocks-microsofts-69-billion-acquisition-of-activision-blizzard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/britain-blocks-microsofts-69-billion-acquisition-of-activision-blizzard\/04\/26\/market-updates\/","title":{"rendered":"Britain blocks Microsoft&#8217;s $69 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Britain&#8217;s largest competition regulator has moved to block Microsoft&#8217;s acquisition of video game publisher Activision Blizzard, in a painful blow to the US tech giant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Microsoft announced its intention to acquire Activision Blizzard in January 2022 for $69 billion, in one of the largest deals the video game sector has seen so far.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some of Microsoft&#8217;s competitors objected to the deal, fearing it could give Microsoft a tight grip on the $200 billion gaming market, and of particular concern was the prospect of Microsoft stopping Activision&#8217;s popular Call of Duty from being released on some platforms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sony, in particular, has expressed concern about Microsoft&#8217;s purchase of Activision, as the Japanese gaming giant fears that Microsoft will make Call of Duty exclusive to its Xbox in the long term.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Britain&#8217;s largest competition regulator has moved to block Microsoft&#8217;s acquisition of video game publisher Activision Blizzard, in a painful blow to the US tech giant. Microsoft announced its intention to acquire Activision Blizzard in January 2022 for $69 billion, in one of the largest deals the video game sector has seen so far. Some of &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":59016,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,36],"tags":[7113,7564],"class_list":["post-83275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-global-stock-markets","category-market-updates","tag-earnings","tag-microsoft"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83275"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83276,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83275\/revisions\/83276"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}