{"id":1041968,"date":"2026-10-09T08:11:49","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T02:41:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1041968"},"modified":"2026-10-09T08:32:15","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T03:02:15","slug":"italy-launches-eu-backed-probe-into-microsoft-owned-gaming-companies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/10\/09\/italy-launches-eu-backed-probe-into-microsoft-owned-gaming-companies\/","title":{"rendered":"Italy launches EU-backed probe into Microsoft-owned gaming companies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Italy&#8217;s antitrust authority said on Thursday it had launched a probe into several Microsoft-owned video-game makers over their use of virtual currencies. <\/p>\n<p>Italy&#8217;s probe is aimed at Activision Blizzard, among other companies of the Microsoft group, the antitrust authority said in a statement, without naming the others <\/p>\n<p>Microsoft was not immediately available for comment<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Italy&#8217;s antitrust authority said on Thursday it had launched a probe into several Microsoft-owned video-game makers over their use of virtual currencies. Italy&#8217;s probe is aimed at Activision Blizzard, among other companies of the Microsoft group, the antitrust authority said in a statement, without naming the others Microsoft was not immediately available for comment<\/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-1041968","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\/1041968","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=1041968"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041968\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1041995,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041968\/revisions\/1041995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1041968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1041968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1041968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}