Professional Development: MICROSOFT'S $69 BILLION ACQUISITION OF ACTIVISION BLIZZARD GETS APPROVES
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🗓️ 27 May 2023
⏱️ 9 minutes
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In this clip we discuss the approval of Microsoft to purchase Activision Blizzard in the European market and will Activision Games only be offered on Microsoft gaming systems. Will it get approved by the FTC in the United States.
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| 0:00.0 | Microsoft wins approval for the $69 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard. |
| 0:10.9 | This is something that we talked about for a while. |
| 0:13.4 | I guess it's finally approved. |
| 0:15.7 | What will this do for both companies? |
| 0:18.2 | What will this do for the stock of Microsoft? |
| 0:20.3 | And is this a good play? |
| 0:22.8 | A lot of money, $69 billion, Activision Blizzard. |
| 0:27.1 | One of my Activision Blizzard. |
| 0:28.6 | Activision Blizzard, if you have a gaming console, |
| 0:31.4 | you would probably purchase one of their games, |
| 0:34.0 | called the Duty, probably being the biggest one. |
| 0:36.0 | The biggest one. |
| 0:36.6 | One of the biggest ones in the world. |
| 0:38.8 | The world of, was it Minecraft? |
| 0:41.2 | They also are part of. |
| 0:43.7 | But I mean, Activist is one of these companies that historically, |
| 0:48.8 | hasn't had a system, but they just have the games to put out. |
| 0:51.8 | This merger makes sense. |
| 0:52.9 | So the issue here was, are they taking competition out of the space? |
| 0:58.1 | Right. And so when you look at it from the EU, |
| 1:00.0 | you a the EU, I'm sorry. |
| 1:02.6 | And you look from the FTC, that was the investigation. |
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