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Activision Blizzard

King Digital Entertainment is a social games development company. King develops games for the web, for mobile (iOS, Android, Windows Phone), Facebook, and Windows 10. King gained fame after releasing the cross-platform title Candy Crush Saga in 2012, considered the first successful game utilizing the freemium model. King was acquired by Activision Blizzard in February 2016 for $5.9 billion, and operates as its own entity within that company.

King Digital Entertainment

Activision is an American interactive entertainment company. Headquartered in Santa Monica, California and founded in 2008 through the merger of Vivendi Games and Activision, the company is traded on the NASDAQ stock exchange under the ticker symbol NASDAQ: ATVI, and since 2015 has been one of the stocks that make up the S&P 500. Activision Blizzard currently includes five business units: Activision, Blizzard Entertainment, Major League Gaming, Activision Blizzard Studios, and King Digital Entertainment.  Some of their popular games include: World of Warcraft, StarCraft, Diablo, Hearthstone, Heroes of the Storm, Overwatch, Call of Duty,  kylanders, Destiny, Candy Crush Saga, Candy Crush Soda Saga, Candy Crush Jelly Saga, Farm Heroes Saga, Pet Rescue and Bubble Witch.

Major League Gaming is a professional eSports organization. MLG is headquartered in New York City, New York and was founded in 2002 by Sundance DiGiovanni and Mike Sepso. MLG has held official video game tournaments throughout the United States and Canada. The Boost Mobile MLG Pro Circuit was a television broadcast of Halo 2 MLG tournaments in 2006 and 2007, ESPN.com, and other broadband sites. The company has also been involved in television production, and game development. MLG's aim is to elevate computer and console game tournaments to viable competitive and spectator events.

Major League Gaming

Activision Blizzard’s mission is to connect and engage the world through epic entertainment. One of the successful interactive entertainment companies, its franchises include popular games like Call of Duty®, Warcraft® (Warcraft®, World of Warcraft®, Hearthstone®), Overwatch®, Diablo®, StarCraft®, Candy Crush™, Crash Bandicoot™, Guitar Hero®, Tony Hawk's™ Pro Skater™, Bubble Witch™, Pet Rescue™, Farm Heroes™, and Spyro™. Through these franchises, the company reaches more than 400 million players across 190 countries.   Activision Blizzard’s business units and development studios include Activision Publishing, Blizzard Entertainment, King Games, Infinity Ward, Raven Software, Sledgehammer Games, Treyarch Studios, Beenox, Demonware, High Moon Studios, and Toys for Bob.   The company supports corporate social responsibility initiatives that are directly tied to its franchises. As an example, the Call of Duty Endowment has helped find employment for over 100,000 veterans.   Bobby Kotick currently serves as Chief Executive Officer of Activision Blizzard. He became CEO of Activision in 1991 after purchasing a company stake the previous year. Kotick engineered a merger between Activision and Vivendi Games during the late 2000s, which led to the creation of Activision Blizzard in 2008 and his being named the company's inaugural CEO.   Activision Blizzard is a member of the Fortune 500 and the S&P 500. Activision Blizzard has been recognized as one of FORTUNE magazine's “100 Best Companies To Work For''.

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Microsoft's Activision Blizzard Inc (NASDAQ:ATVI) will pay around US$55 million to settle a gender and discrimination lawsuit from 2021. California's civil rights department sued the company for discriminating against women by denying them promotion opportunities and failing to pay them equally to men.

Activision Blizzard to pay female staff millions to settle lawsuit

The Federal Trade Commission is seeking to overturn a ruling that denied its request to temporarily block Microsoft Corp MSFT $75 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard.

Microsoft-Activision Deal Faces Another FTC Challenge As Their Stock Plunges 5% - Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT)

The FTC is trying to block Microsoft's acquisition of Activision Blizzard, the maker of the popular "Call of Duty" franchise, after a lower court allowed the deal to proceed.

FTC tries again to block Microsoft's acquisition of Activision

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is reportedly continuing its legal battle to challenge Microsoft's acquisition of Activision Blizzard, the maker of popular video game franchise “Call of Duty.” The FTC argues that the deal raises serious competitive concerns and could lead to Microsoft dominating the gaming industry, Reuters reported Wednesday (Dec. 6).

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Warren Buffett wrote an op-ed for The New York Times during the financial markets collapse in 2008 titled, “ Buy American. I Am. ” At the time, the housing market was in free fall, Lehman Brothers had just imploded, and the stock market tumbled 20% on its way to losing more than half its value before hitting bottom.

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Microsoft is reshuffling its Xbox leadership and org chart shortly after it acquired Activision Blizzard for $68.7 billion.

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Nearly two years after the initial announcement, Microsoft has completed the largest deal in tech history.

The Microsoft-Activision Blizzard Deal Is Done

Analysts at UBS have updated their models for Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) to account for its acquisition of Activision Blizzard Inc (NASDAQ:ATVI), which closed earlier this month, ahead of the company's first quarter fiscal 2024 earnings report due on Tuesday, October 24. “We're assuming that Microsoft will offer pro forma guidance to reflect the ATVI deal, obviously impacting the Gaming segment as well as the overall margin and cash flow outlook,” they wrote in a note to clients.

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The deal took nearly two years to close. Activision is a highly profitable business.

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Microsoft Corp.'s protracted, circuitous bid to acquire Activision Blizzard Inc. not only changed the gaming market but most likely upended potential future moves by federal regulators to block vertical deals, a central tenet of their antitrust campaign against Big Tech in the past few years.

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Microsoft made major concessions to win final approval of the acquisition. Ubisoft will buy Activision's cloud gaming rights for future content over the next 15 years.

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Shares of Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT ) have lagged the performance of other mega-cap technology concerns year to date. However, with several catalysts forming there is reason to be bullish on the company's stock.

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Microsoft secured a swath of video game titles for Xbox when it acquired Activision Blizzard last week for $69 billion.

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After two years co-piloting the biggest acquisition in video game history past an onslaught of challenges, Xbox CEO Phil Spencer now moves on to his next quest: making Microsoft's takeover of Activision Blizzard worth the hassle.

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NEW YORK , Oct. 13, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- S&P Dow Jones Indices will make the following changes to the S&P 500, S&P MidCap 400, and S&P SmallCap 600 indices effective prior to the opening of trading on Wednesday, October 18: Lululemon Athletica Inc. (NASD:LULU) will replace Activision Blizzard Inc. (NASD:ATVI) in the S&P 500. S&P 500 and S&P 100 constituent Microsoft Corp. (NASD: MSFT) acquired Activision Blizzard in a transaction completed today, October 13.

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Kotick reportedly knew about and minimized the severity of sexual harassment allegations at Activision to the board of directors, according to a Wall Street Journal report.

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Look into how ETFs are affected after the U.K.'s CMA granted clearance to Microsoft's $69 billion takeover of Activision.

ETFs in Focus as Microsoft Closes Activision Deal

OK, now what? I wasn't sure we'd ever get here, but 21 months later, Microsoft has successfully fended off the FTC, pacified the CMA, and completed its $69 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard. One industry leader has merged with another, which means Microsoft, on top of everything else it does, is now one of the highest-revenue video game companies in the world.

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Microsoft has closed its deal to acquire Activision Blizzard King for $69 billion after almost two years in the works.

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Microsoft completed its $69 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard after clearing a series of regulators' hurdles since the deal was first announced in January 2022.

Microsoft completes $69B Activision Blizzard acquisition

With the completion of the blockbuster acquisition, the notion that tech giants can grow through “vertical transactions” remains intact.

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