{"id":799816,"date":"2022-12-31T10:23:18","date_gmt":"2022-12-31T10:23:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2022\/12\/31\/first-pre-trial-hearing-in-microsoft-activision-case-set-for-january-3\/"},"modified":"2022-12-31T10:23:18","modified_gmt":"2022-12-31T10:23:18","slug":"first-pre-trial-hearing-in-microsoft-activision-case-set-for-january-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2022\/12\/31\/first-pre-trial-hearing-in-microsoft-activision-case-set-for-january-3\/","title":{"rendered":"First pre-trial hearing in Microsoft-Activision case set for January 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A judge has set January 3 for the first pre-trial hearing in the Biden administration&#8217;s case against Microsoft over its $69 billion bid to take over &#8220;Call of Duty&#8221; maker Activision Blizzard.<\/p>\n<p>The Federal Trade Commission (FTC), which enforces antitrust law, asked a judge to block the transaction earlier this month, arguing that the merger would allow Microsoft&#8217;s Xbox to get exclusive access to Activision games, leaving Nintendo consoles and Sony&#8217;s PlayStation out in the cold.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft has countered that the deal would benefit gamers and gaming companies alike, offering to sign a legally binding consent decree with the FTC to provide &#8220;Call of Duty&#8221; games to rivals including Sony for a decade.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft made the argument in a filing aimed at convincing a judge at the FTC to allow the deal to proceed.<\/p>\n<p>The case is a sign of the administration of U.S. President Joe Biden taking a muscular approach to anti-trust enforcement. But antitrust experts say the FTC faces an uphill battle to convince a judge to block the deal, because of the voluntary concessions offered by Microsoft to allay fears it could dominate the gaming market.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A judge has set January 3 for the first pre-trial hearing in the Biden administration&#8217;s case against Microsoft over its $69 billion bid to take over &#8220;Call of Duty&#8221; maker Activision Blizzard. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC), which enforces antitrust law, asked a judge to block the transaction earlier this month, arguing that the merger would allow Microsoft&#8217;s Xbox to get exclusive access to Activision games, leaving Nintendo consoles and Sony&#8217;s PlayStation out in the cold. Microsoft has countered that the deal would benefit gamers and gaming companies alike, offering to sign a legally binding consent decree with the FTC [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-799816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799816","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=799816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799816\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=799816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=799816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=799816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}