Welcome to the Tech Mem Right Home for Friday, October 6th, 2023 I'm Brian McCullough today.

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Looks like we might be able to close the loop on this one at long last. A source is

reporting that Microsoft plans to close its 68.7 billion dollar

Activision acquisition a week from today, October 13th, with a final decision

from the UK's CMA allowing the deal expected to come down next week.

Quoting the verge.

That date will still depend on the UK's competition and markets authority, though, a regulator

that blocked Microsoft's deal earlier this year.

Microsoft recently restructured the deal to transfer cloud gaming rights for current and new

Activision Blizzard games to UB

UBissoft and the Xbox Maker secured preliminary approval from the CMA late last month

as a result.

The CMA has a deadline that expires today on

gathering opinions over whether it should grant consent to Microsoft to

proceed with the merger. A final decision from the CMA is expected next week, and barring any surprise, last-minute

changes should allow Microsoft to close the deal.

Microsoft and Activision extended their deal deadline to October 18th recently, but if Microsoft is able to close the deal next week, it will

bring to a close a 20-month process of regulatory approvals and battles across Europe and the

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