Then the FTC suddenly let slip that Microsoft would need an additional 2 million Xbox Game Pass subscribers a year to offset an unknown drop in Call of Duty royalty rates from PlayStation. You ...

Microsoft faced the FTC in court, defending its giant Activision Blizzard deal. On June 11th, a judge ruled in favor of allowing the deal to proceed, but the FTC might appeal and other hurdles ...

Microsoft isn’t completely free of regulatory scrutiny, though, even if it comes out on top against the FTC. It still has the CMA to deal with. What’s next for the CMA ...

And the chair of the FTC, Lena Khan, was grilled on Capitol Hill. At least for now, it appears that the Microsoft-Activision deal will likely close. But Microsoft’s war with the FTC is far from ...

FTC loses bid to block Microsoft's acquisition of Activision Blizzard, which already happened in 2023; FTC drops 2-year case against Microsoft's $68.7 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard; ...

FTC gunning for Microsoft again after Game Pass price hikes and sends a letter basically saying, "We did warn you"… Continue reading FTC gunning for Microsoft again after Game Pass price hikes ...

Rima Alaily, Corporate Vice President and Deputy General Counsel, Microsoft published a letter on LinkedIn accusing the FTC of leaking confidential information about Microsoft to the press. The ...

The FTC will take a closer look to see if Microsoft and OpenAI violated antitrust laws. At this stage, the FTC has started preliminary inquiries but has not opened a formal investigation.

The FTC’s investigation of Microsoft, which was first reported by the Financial Times and Bloomberg, is far from the company’s first brush with federal regulators over antitrust issues.

Microsoft presented these charts in its FTC response, making the case that its proposed acquisition of Activision-Blizzard would increase competition rather than diminish it. Microsoft laid out ...

A federal appeals court on Wednesday rejected a legal challenge by the Federal Trade Commission to Microsoft's $69 billion purchase of “Call of Duty” maker Activision Blizzard.

In FTC v. Microsoft, all that matters is what Judge Jacqueline Scott Corley thinks. So let's see what we can make of her on the last day of the trial. Focus Reset. Skip to content ...