{"id":1009545,"date":"2026-05-23T09:11:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T03:41:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1009545"},"modified":"2026-05-23T09:18:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T03:48:09","slug":"activision-shareholders-reach-250-million-settlement-over-microsoft-buyout-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/05\/23\/activision-shareholders-reach-250-million-settlement-over-microsoft-buyout-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Activision shareholders reach $250 million settlement over Microsoft buyout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shareholders of Activision Blizzard reached a $250 million settlement over allegations that the company&#8217;s former executives and Microsoft shortchanged \u200cthem \u2060when \u2060Microsoft acquired the game maker for $75.4 billion in 2023, according to a late Thursday court filing in a Delaware state court. <\/p>\n<p>Shareholders in the maker of \u2060the &#8220;Call of \u200cDuty&#8221; video game, led by Swedish pension fund \u2060Sjunde 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 takeover price.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shareholders of Activision Blizzard reached a $250 million settlement over allegations that the company&#8217;s former executives and Microsoft shortchanged \u200cthem \u2060when \u2060Microsoft acquired the game maker for $75.4 billion in 2023, according to a late Thursday court filing in a Delaware state court. Shareholders in the maker of \u2060the &#8220;Call of \u200cDuty&#8221; video game, led by Swedish pension fund \u2060Sjunde 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 takeover 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-1009545","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\/1009545","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=1009545"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1009545\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1009547,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1009545\/revisions\/1009547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1009545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1009545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1009545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}