Curated By: Shaurya Sharma<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n Last Updated: June 21, 2023, 15:02 IST<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n Redmond, Washington State, USA<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Microsoft is facing a tough time buying Activision. (Reuters)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n An alleged internal Microsoft email, which is evidence in a lawsuit in the U.S. 9th Circuit Court, suggests that one of the intentions behind Microsoft\u2019s bid to acquire Activision-Blizzard is\u201c to put its main competition, the Sony PlayStation, out of the market.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n As reported by Axios<\/em><\/a>, the alleged email sent in 2019 by Microsoft\u2019s head of Xbox game studios, Matt Booty to CFO for Xbox, Tim Stuart, was before Microsoft\u2019s announcement to buy Activision-Blizzard.<\/p>\n Axios notes that the \u201cpassage appears to be from Exhibit K,\u201d which is \u201ca sealed document that the gamers\u2019 lawyers and Microsoft\u2019s attorneys have been arguing over.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n Axios has also received confirmation from a Microsoft representative that the purported email was indeed sent by Kotick in 2019, but its contents cannot be disclosed.<\/span><\/p>\n It must be noted this evidence is not a part of the Federal Trade Commission\u2019s bid to block the deal, but in a separate lawsuit by \u201ca group of gamers suing to block the deal over antitrust concerns.\u201d<\/p>\n It remains to be seen if these developments would impact the deal in the long term. However, the Judge overseeing the case, Jacqueline Corley, has introduced a short-term hold on the merger\u2014a move that Microsoft believes could potentially put the deal at risk of dissolving.<\/span><\/p>\n Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, Xbox chief Phil Spencer, Activision CEO Bobby Kotick, and Sony Computer Interactive CEO Jim Ryan are among the witnesses scheduled to testify at a five-day hearing on the Federal Trade Commission\u2019s antitrust lawsuit against Microsoft. The hearing will begin on June 22 and end on June 29.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n [ad_2] [ad_1] Curated By: Shaurya Sharma Last Updated: June 21, 2023, 15:02 IST Redmond, Washington State, USA Microsoft is facing a tough time buying Activision. (Reuters) An alleged internal Microsoft email, which is evidence in a lawsuit in the U.S. 9th Circuit Court, suggests that one of the intentions behind Microsoft’s bid to acquire Activision-Blizzard is\u201c … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1512,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[107],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bscrackers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bscrackers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bscrackers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bscrackers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bscrackers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bscrackers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2647\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bscrackers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bscrackers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bscrackers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bscrackers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Microsoft](\"https:\/\/images.news18.com\/ibnlive\/uploads\/2021\/07\/1627283897_news18_logo-1200x800.jpg?impolicy=website&width=510&height=356\" "\\"Microsoft"){kind=logo}
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