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6 days ago · A California judge ruled in Microsoft’s favor on the FTC’s request for a preliminary injunction blocking its $68.7 billion purchase of Activision Blizzard. The FTC is now appealing its loss to...
Jul 8, 2024 · Microsoft Closes $69 Billion Acquisition of Activision Blizzard. Concluding 20 months of an often-contentious approval process with regulators in the US, EU, UK, and New Zealand, including defeating the Federal Trade Commission in a US federal court and restructuring the deal to appease the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) in the UK, ...
10 hours ago · The World of Warcraft Game Makers Guild - CWA Union is the first wall-to-wall union seen at Activision Blizzard and the largest of this kind at a Microsoft-owned studio to date, according to CWA. It also builds on an expansion of organized labor seen among Microsoft video game workers since the tech giant’s $69 billion purchase of Activision Blizzard last year.
10 hours ago · In an unusual arrangement for the industry to help address concerns about the merger made back in 2022, Microsoft pledged to stay neutral if Activision Blizzard workers in the U.S. and Canada seek ...
6 hours ago · Blizzard Entertainment recognized the union, increasing the number of unionized game workers at Microsoft to more than 1,750, the C.W.A. said. World of Warcraft, released in 2004, was a landmark ...
1 day ago · July 24, 2024 at 12:14 PM PDT. Listen. 3:13. World of Warcraft workers have voted to unionize the popular video-game franchise, expanding organized labor’s new foothold at Microsoft Corp. by ...
3 days ago · Activision Blizzard expects to be acquired by Microsoft as part of a $68.7 billion deal. The United States Federal Trade Commission is suing Microsoft in an effort to challenge the deal.
