Microsoft, Activision give themselves three more months to close

Microsoft and Activision have jointly agreed to extend the deadline to complete their mega merger for a further three months in order, they say, to allow time to resolve “remaining regulatory concerns”. The original deadline for Microsoft to close the $68.7 billion acquisition of Activision it announced back in January 2022 was July 18 (yesterday). […]

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