{"id":1009502,"date":"2026-05-23T08:57:01","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T03:27:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1009502"},"modified":"2026-05-23T09:04:32","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T03:34:32","slug":"activision-shareholders-reach-250-million-settlement-over-microsoft-buyout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/05\/23\/activision-shareholders-reach-250-million-settlement-over-microsoft-buyout\/","title":{"rendered":"Activision shareholders reach $250 million settlement over Microsoft buyout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WILMINGTON, Delaware: Shareholders of Activision Blizzard reached a $250 million settlement over allegations that \u200cthe \u2060company&#8217;s former \u2060executives and Microsoft shortchanged them when Microsoft acquired the game maker for $75.4 billion in 2023, according to a late Thursday court filing in a Delaware state \u2060court. <\/p>\n<p>Shareholders in \u200cthe maker of the &#8220;Call of Duty&#8221; video \u2060game, led by Swedish pension fund Sjunde AP-Fonden, accused former Activision Blizzard executives including Chief Executive Bobby Kotick of breaching their fiduciary duties to investors by agreeing to a $95 per share \u200ctakeover price.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WILMINGTON, Delaware: Shareholders of Activision Blizzard reached a $250 million settlement over allegations that \u200cthe \u2060company&#8217;s former \u2060executives and Microsoft shortchanged them when Microsoft acquired the game maker for $75.4 billion in 2023, according to a late Thursday court filing in a Delaware state \u2060court. Shareholders in \u200cthe maker of the &#8220;Call of Duty&#8221; video \u2060game, led by Swedish pension fund Sjunde AP-Fonden, accused former Activision Blizzard executives including Chief Executive Bobby Kotick of breaching their fiduciary duties to investors by agreeing to a $95 per share \u200ctakeover price.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1009502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1009502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1009502"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1009502\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1009520,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1009502\/revisions\/1009520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1009502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1009502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1009502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}