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Microsoft president Brad Smith to meet with FTC bigs over $69B Activision deal: sources - New York Post

Microsoft president Brad Smith to meet with FTC bigs over $69B Activision deal: sources - New York Post

Microsoft president Brad Smith to meet with FTC bigs over $69B Activision deal: sources - New York Post
Dec 06, 2022 59 secs

Sources said Smith — who on Monday wrote an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal arguing for the deal — will stress that Microsoft is now offering rival Sony a 10-year licensing deal for Activision games including “Call of Duty” on its PlayStation consoles, and that the games would be released to them at the same time it becomes available on Microsoft’s Xbox.

Separately this week, the Communications Workers of America said it supported the deal as news broke that 300 workers at Microsoft gaming studio ZeniMax are voting this month on forming Microsoft’s first union.

CWA said the merger would give Microsoft and Activision Blizzard workers a clear path to collective bargaining and unionization in what it considers a major Microsoft concession.

The politically influential union is saying the deal is good for workers and they will be hurt if the FTC sues to block the merger.

As reported by The Post, a fellow Democrat supporting the Microsoft deal could create a difficult path to block the deal for FTC Chair Khan — who according to insiders has eyed Microsoft’s deal as a major target as she looked to burnish her credentials as a trustbuster of Big Tech

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