{"id":86189,"date":"2023-10-13T01:26:38","date_gmt":"2023-10-13T05:26:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=86189"},"modified":"2023-10-13T02:09:34","modified_gmt":"2023-10-13T06:09:34","slug":"microsoft-activision-blizzard-takeover-gets-approval-from-uk-regulators-clearing-way-for-deal-to-close","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/10\/2023\/microsoft-activision-blizzard-takeover-gets-approval-from-uk-regulators-clearing-way-for-deal-to-close.html","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft-Activision Blizzard takeover gets approval from UK regulators, clearing way for deal to close"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(CNBC) Britain\u2019s top competition watchdog on Friday gave the green light <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/MSFT\/\">to Microsoft\u2019s<\/a> proposed $69 billion takeover of gaming firm <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/ATVI\/\">Activision Blizzard<\/a>, removing the last major hurdle for the deal to close. It marks a major U-turn from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2023\/04\/26\/britain-blocks-microsoft-acquisition-of-activision-blizzard.html\">CMA, the staunchest critic of the takeover, which effectively blocked the deal earlier this year<\/a> over concerns that the acquisition would hamper competition in the nascent cloud gaming market.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2023\/10\/13\/microsoft-activision-blizzard-takeover-approved-by-uk-regulator-cma.html\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNBC) Britain\u2019s top competition watchdog on Friday gave the green light to Microsoft\u2019s proposed $69 billion takeover of gaming firm Activision Blizzard, removing the last major hurdle for the deal to close. It marks a major U-turn from the CMA, [&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-86189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86189","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=86189"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86190,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86189\/revisions\/86190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}