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 ...

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 ...

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.

With Activision ownership comes monopoly power. The FTC's complaint points to Microsoft's 2021 acquisition of well-known game developer Bethesda Softworks and its parent company ZeniMax, as an ...

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 ...

The FTC fielded complaints about Microsoft last year as it examined the cloud computing market. NetChoice, a lobbying group that represents online companies including Amazon and Google, ...

However, Microsoft now has to not only win this case, but also get deal approved by the European Union and British Competition and Market Authority who now are more likely to follow the FTC’s lead.

The FTC vote to sue Microsoft over the deal was 3-1, with commissioner Christine Wilson, who was appointed to the agency by Donald Trump, voting “no. ...

Microsoft urged an appeals court in sometimes scathing language on Friday to reject the U.S. Federal Trade Commission's (FTC) request to pause its $69 billion deal to buy Activision .