Microsoft-Activision deal: Satya Nadella, Bobby Kotick to testify in court as FTC tries to block mergerThe Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has asked a judge to stop the transaction temporarily in order to allow the agency's in-house judge to d...
28 Jun, 2023, 04.10 PM IST
Microsoft attempts to pick apart US legal argument against deal to buy ActivisionArguing for the government on Tuesday in its legal fight against Microsoft's $69 billion deal to buy game maker Activision Blizzard, Harvar...
28 Jun, 2023, 08.28 AM IST
Microsoft stakes Xbox video game sales on long-awaited space adventure StarfieldPlayers must fend off pirates, navigate strange moons, build outposts and fix their own starships in a space epic that is due out on Xbox i...
12 Jun, 2023, 07.41 PM IST
EU antitrust regulators likely to approve $69-billion Microsoft-Activision deal next weekThe European Commission's imminent clearance comes nearly three weeks after the UK competition authority blocked the deal, the biggest-ever...
10 May, 2023, 08.51 PM IST
Recalled from duty, not enough trustBritain's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has blocked Microsoft's $68.7 billion deal to buy Activision Blizzard over concerns that ...
27 Apr, 2023, 10.41 PM IST
Microsoft signs Japanese licensing agreement amid Activision dealWhile Xbox maker Microsoft is likely to secure EU antitrust approval for acquiring Activision with such licensing deals and other behaviour...
15 Mar, 2023, 06.50 PM IST
Microsoft inks licensing deal with cloud gaming provider BoosteroidThe Activision bid announced in January last year, Microsoft's biggest ever deal, aims to boost its firepower in the booming videogaming ma...
14 Mar, 2023, 07.17 PM IST
How Microsoft is addressing antitrust concerns over Activision dealMicrosoft announced the Activision bid in January last year, its biggest ever, to boost its firepower in the booming videogaming market and...
23 Feb, 2023, 04.25 PM IST
Explainer: How Microsoft is addressing antitrust concerns over Activision dealMicrosoft has thrown the gauntlet down over antitrust criticisms, saying on Tuesday it is ready to offer rivals licensing deals in exchange...
23 Feb, 2023, 09.53 AM IST
Microsoft to defend Activision deal at EU hearing on February 21The company asked for the hearing after receiving a statement of objections from the European Commission warning about the possible anti-co...
14 Feb, 2023, 11.47 PM IST
Microsoft faces EU antitrust warning over Activision dealMicrosoft is likely to receive an EU antitrust warning about its $69 billion bid for "Call of Duty" maker Activision Blizzard, people famil...
16 Jan, 2023, 09.38 PM IST
First pre-trial hearing in Microsoft-Activision case set for January 3The Federal Trade Commission (FTC), which enforces antitrust law, asked a judge to block the transaction earlier this month, arguing that t...
31 Dec, 2022, 12.32 PM IST
FTC Chair Lina Khan, aiming to block Microsoft's Activision deal, faces a challengeThe FTC on Thursday sued to block Microsoft's $69 billion acquisition of video game publisher Activision, the biggest consumer tech deal in...
10 Dec, 2022, 04.51 PM IST
Microsoft strikes 10-year deal with Nintendo on Call of DutyMicrosoft said Wednesday that it struck a deal to make the hit video game Call of Duty available on Nintendo for 10 years when its $69 bill...
07 Dec, 2022, 05.32 PM IST
Microsoft purchases physics engine company Havok from IntelMicrosoft has just purchased the largest physics engine company in the world, Havok, from hardware purveyor Intel.
03 Oct, 2015, 03.03 PM IST
- US company sues Nintendo in Wii wand patent suit
Nintendo's hit Wii console with its wandlike remote controller has been targeted in patent infringement complaints by a US technology compa...
21 Aug, 2008, 01.04 PM IST
- US firm files patent claim against Nintendo Wii
A US firm said on Wednesday it had filed legal actions against Japanese-based Nintendo claiming patent infringement by the wildly popular W...
21 Aug, 2008, 04.56 AM IST