Welcome to the Tech Meme Right Home for Friday, October 13th, 2023.

I'm Brian McCullough. Today Microsoft wins its big prize.

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Well it looks like they got them. The UK CMA has approved Microsoft

69 billion dollar Activision acquisition, after Microsoft

restructured the deal to sell some of Activision's cloud gaming rights to

UB Microsoft, quoting Windows Central.

The biggest acquisition in gaming history is cleared to go ahead per the UK regulator.

UK regulator, the CMA shared on Friday that it has

approved Microsoft's restructured acquisition of Activision Blizzard, a deal

worth almost 69 billion dollars that has taken nearly two years to complete with the purchase first

being announced back on January 18th 2022. Activision also offered a statement

quote the CMA's official approval is great news for our future with Microsoft and we look forward to becoming part of the Xbox team.

In a note to employees, Activision noted its excitement about getting the deal through to closure.

Microsoft's Brad Smith also chimed into about getting the deal through to closure.

Microsoft's Brad Smith also chimed in to reiterate that this was the final major

regulatory hurdle ahead of the deal fully closing.

The UK regulator had initially blocked the deal citing concerns over Microsoft becoming dominant in the

UberNacent Cloud gaming market. Shortly after a court hearing in the US that saw the FTC

unable to block Microsoft's purchase, the CMA reopened negotiations with the

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