@reddig33@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish • 1 year agoThe FTC isn’t too happy with Microsoft’s Activision Blizzard layoffswww.polygon.comexternal-linkmessage-square110fedilinkarrow-up1531 cross-posted to: technology@lemmy.world
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minus-square@OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglish95•1 year agoYou 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
minus-squareNeatolinkfedilinkEnglish63•1 year agoGood. 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!
minus-squareOrbituarylinkfedilinkEnglish8•1 year agoYou took all that effort to put the zeros and commas in, but put the $ on the wrong side of the number. Neat.
minus-square@FiskFisk33@startrek.websitelinkfedilinkEnglish18•1 year agooh no, literally undecipherable
minus-square@CaptainEffort@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglish5•1 year agoIf they actually managed to, my faith in humanity would be restored a little bit
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
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!
Basically Ma Bell.
I got the ill communication
You took all that effort to put the zeros and commas in, but put the $ on the wrong side of the number.
Neat.
Probably European.
What?? On the internet???
oh no, literally undecipherable
Lmao found the American.
How dare people write in the spoken order!
If they actually managed to, my faith in humanity would be restored a little bit