{"id":85314,"date":"2023-07-17T01:01:22","date_gmt":"2023-07-17T05:01:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=85314"},"modified":"2023-07-17T00:43:53","modified_gmt":"2023-07-17T04:43:53","slug":"ftc-loses-appeals-court-bid-to-temporarily-block-microsoft-activision-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/07\/2023\/ftc-loses-appeals-court-bid-to-temporarily-block-microsoft-activision-deal.html","title":{"rendered":"FTC loses appeals court bid to temporarily block Microsoft-Activision deal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(CNBC) In a victory for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/MSFT\/\">Microsoft<\/a>, the U.S. Appeals Court for the 9th Circuit late on Friday\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/storage.courtlistener.com\/recap\/gov.uscourts.ca9.344453\/gov.uscourts.ca9.344453.25.0.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">denied<\/a>\u00a0the Federal Trade Commission\u2019s motion to temporarily stop Microsoft from closing its $68.7 billion acquisition of video game publisher <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/ATVI\/\">Activision Blizzard<\/a>. Microsoft is still working to resolve concerns about the transaction from the United Kingdom\u2019s Competition and Markets Authority. The two companies have been looking to close the deal by tomorrow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2023\/07\/14\/ftc-loses-appeals-court-bid-to-temporarily-block-microsoft-activision-deal.html\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNBC) In a victory for Microsoft, the U.S. Appeals Court for the 9th Circuit late on Friday\u00a0denied\u00a0the Federal Trade Commission\u2019s motion to temporarily stop Microsoft from closing its $68.7 billion acquisition of video game publisher Activision Blizzard. Microsoft is still [&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-85314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85314","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=85314"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85315,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85314\/revisions\/85315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}