Microsoft's acquisition of Activision Blizzard will be handled by the FTC in the US

[WYP]

The FTC, not the Department of Justice will be handling the acquisition.



Read more about the FTC's plans to review Microsoft's Activision Blizzard acquisition plans.

 

[NeverBackDown]

Now if Congress could get on the whole break up big companies thing that would be great....

 

[Warchild]

Now if Congress could get on the whole break up big companies thing that would be great....

Didnt congress already do it once for Microsoft ? years ago, when they split the Xbox console division to prevent them getting too big?

 

[Anon]

Honestly Acti-Blizz could do with a kick. If Microsoft will do it, and improve it somewhat, I'll be happy.

 

[NeverBackDown]

Didnt congress already do it once for Microsoft ? years ago, when they split the Xbox console division to prevent them getting too big?

Nope. They did this over Netscape in 1999, but ultimately was reversed and pretty much nothing changed.