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 ...

Microsoft's seemingly endless arguments with the FTC (Federal Trade Commission) are back up and running with the government agency highlighting recent changes to the Game Pass subscription service ...

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.

After a report last week that the FTC was opening an antitrust investigation into Microsoft, spanning from its cloud business to AI, Microsoft responded, noting it was unaware of such a case ...

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FTC STALLING MICROSOFT'S $69 BILLION ACTIVISION DEAL. Microsoft has said the deal would benefit gamers and gaming companies, and has offered to sign a legally binding consent decree with the FTC ...

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.

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 agreed to beef up security and better inform users of its Passport Internet ID system about the data it collects about them under a deal with the FTC. — By Brock N. Meeks.