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Microsoft Corp. stands to gain from new White House AI guidelines that call on the US Federal Trade Commission to show more ...
The report focuses on Microsoft, Amazon, and Google’s roles as cloud service providers working with OpenAI and Anthropic; among other things, it suggests that these partnerships could affect ...
FTC abandons Biden-era effort to block Microsoft's acquisition of Activision Blizzard The logo for Microsoft, and a scene from Activision "Call of Duty - Modern Warfare," are shown in this photo ...
Microsoft Faces FTC’s Antitrust Probe According to the Bloomberg report, the FTC staff in recent weeks has met with companies and other groups to gather information on its investigation.
The FTC sent Microsoft a so-called civil investigative demand, which is similar to a subpoena, late last year. The document, a copy of which was viewed by Bloomberg, compels the company to turn ...
Microsoft President Brad Smith responded to the complaint in a statement on Thursday, shortly after FTC commissioners approved the lawsuit by a 3-to-1 vote.
The Ninth Circuit denied the FTC’s emergency motion for an injunction on July 14, 2023 and Microsoft officially completed the merger with Activision in October 13, 2023. See Fed. Trade Comm’n v.
Big news for gamers: the FTC just lost its appeal against Microsoft’s huge $69 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard. This means the deal, finalized in October 2023, is now set in stone.
But now, we can see what the current FTC’s position is regarding this deal. Microsoft President Brad Smith shared an FTC document revealing they are dismissing their complaint.
Welp, after what felt like a year-long legal soap opera, the FTC has officially dropped its case against Microsoft’s mega acquisition of Activision Blizzard. That’s right—the $68.7 billion ...
In the PepsiCo case, FTC Chairman Andrew Ferguson said the Biden-era FTC rushed to authorize a case just three days before Trump's inauguration. He said Thursday that the case, which alleged that ...