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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish189•1 year agoThey’re not too happy, and they may even write a strongly worded email expressing their unhappiness.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish96•1 year agoYou jest, but the FTC is trying to appeal (undo) the merger in court, and this makes their case a lot stronger: https://www.reuters.com/markets/deals/us-ftc-tries-again-stop-microsofts-already-closed-deal-activision-2023-12-06/ For a 68,000,000,000$ deal, even if this helps the FTC by 1%, that’s a huge risk
minus-squareNeatolinkfedilinkEnglish63•1 year agoGood. After they un-merge them they can break them up into even smaller pieces. That way in another 30 years when we forget about antitrust against they can re-assemble the monopoly. Fun for everyone!
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish5•1 year agoIf they actually managed to, my faith in humanity would be restored a little bit
minus-squareOrbituarylinkfedilinkEnglish-34•1 year agoYou took all that effort to put the zeros and commas in, but put the $ on the wrong side of the number. Neat.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish25•1 year agoWOAH WOAH WOAH LET’S KEEP THINGS IN PERSPECTIVE HERE
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish21•1 year agoThe FTC Bukkakes Microsoft Over Activision Blizzard layoffs
minus-squareFunkyMonklinkfedilink5•edit-21 year agoyou cant just blindside job creators with that, think of the neppies /s
They’re not too happy, and they may even write a strongly worded email expressing their unhappiness.
You jest, but the FTC is trying to appeal (undo) the merger in court, and this makes their case a lot stronger: https://www.reuters.com/markets/deals/us-ftc-tries-again-stop-microsofts-already-closed-deal-activision-2023-12-06/
For a 68,000,000,000$ deal, even if this helps the FTC by 1%, that’s a huge risk
Good. After they un-merge them they can break them up into even smaller pieces. That way in another 30 years when we forget about antitrust against they can re-assemble the monopoly. Fun for everyone!
Basically Ma Bell.
I got the ill communication
If they actually managed to, my faith in humanity would be restored a little bit
You took all that effort to put the zeros and commas in, but put the $ on the wrong side of the number.
Neat.
Probably European.
What?? On the internet???
oh no, literally undecipherable
Lmao found the American.
How dare people write in the spoken order!
WOAH WOAH WOAH LET’S KEEP THINGS IN PERSPECTIVE HERE
They didn’t even slam them.
Or even give them a good BLAST.
The FTC Bukkakes Microsoft Over Activision Blizzard layoffs
That’s the kind of click bait we need.
you cant just blindside job creators with that, think of the neppies /s