{"id":85008,"date":"2023-06-13T00:10:09","date_gmt":"2023-06-13T04:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=85008"},"modified":"2023-06-13T00:03:49","modified_gmt":"2023-06-13T04:03:49","slug":"ftc-files-to-block-microsoft-activision-as-deadline-approaches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/06\/2023\/ftc-files-to-block-microsoft-activision-as-deadline-approaches.html","title":{"rendered":"FTC files to block Microsoft-Activision as deadline approaches"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(CNBC) The Federal Trade Commission on Monday applied for a <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/fm.cnbc.com\/applications\/cnbc.com\/resources\/editorialfiles\/2023\/06\/12\/show_temp_2.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction<\/a> seeking to block Microsoft\u2019s acquisition of Activision Blizzard before the deal\u2019s July 18 deadline. The FTC said it fears that should Microsoft be allowed to buy Activision, Microsoft would have the power to \u201cwithhold or degrade\u201d Activision\u2019s gaming products, through price, game quality, experience on competitors\u2019 offerings or \u201cwithholding content from competitors entirely.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2023\/06\/12\/ftc-files-to-block-microsoft-activision-blizzard-deal.html\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNBC) The Federal Trade Commission on Monday applied for a temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction seeking to block Microsoft\u2019s acquisition of Activision Blizzard before the deal\u2019s July 18 deadline. The FTC said it fears that should Microsoft be allowed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85008"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85008\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85009,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85008\/revisions\/85009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}