UK's CMA: Restructured Microsoft-Activision Deal Could Require New Probe

Reuters2023-07-12

Britain's competition regulator said on Wednesday that it would not accept new remedies from Microsoft and Activision after it blocked their merger, but it would consider a restructured deal, which ...

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