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The FTC isn’t too happy with Microsoft’s Activision Blizzard layoffs (www.polygon.com)
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[–] 189 points 2 years ago (17 children)

They're not too happy, and they may even write a strongly worded email expressing their unhappiness.

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  • [–] 96 points 2 years ago (10 children)

    You jest, but the FTC is trying to appeal (undo) the merger in court, and this makes their case a lot stronger: https://www.reuters.com/markets/deals/us-ftc-tries-again-stop-microsofts-already-closed-deal-activision-2023-12-06/

    For a 68,000,000,000$ deal, even if this helps the FTC by 1%, that's a huge risk

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  • [–] 63 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Good. After they un-merge them they can break them up into even smaller pieces. That way in another 30 years when we forget about antitrust against they can re-assemble the monopoly. Fun for everyone!

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  • [+] -34 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    You took all that effort to put the zeros and commas in, but put the $ on the wrong side of the number.

    Neat.

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  • [–] 21 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    They didn't even slam them.

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