Microsoft is working to resolve lingering concerns about its Activision Blizzard acquisition from regulators in the United Kingdom.
that the transaction was anti-competitive because Microsoft might make some of its games exclusive to its own Xbox game consoles or diminish the experience of Activision games such as the popular Call of Duty titles on rival services should the deal close. Microsoft has said it would instead make the games more widely available.
In an emergency motion filed with the 9th Circuit on Thursday, the FTC said the district judge "denied preliminary relief, applying the wrong legal standard: the court effectively required the FTC to prove its full case on the merits with the court as arbiter of the merger's legality." The agency requested a temporary injunction while the court considered an appeal of the district court's conclusion.
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