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UK restricts Microsoft, Activision from buying interest in each other

This comes after the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) blocked the merger last month.

microsoft activision featured reuters(1)Microsoft logo is seen on a smartphone placed on displayed Activision Blizzard's games characters in this illustration taken January 18, 2022. (Image: Reuters/Dado Ruvic)
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Britain’s competition regulator has published an interim order restricting Microsoft and Activision from acquiring an interest in each other without its consent, weeks after it blocked their $69 billion merger.

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