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...Microsoft defeated an attempt by the Federal Trade Commission to prevent its closure in a US court, thwarting the legal action led by the agency’s chair Lina Khan....
...The FTC’s treatment of the deal had sharpened corporate America’s concerns that Khan is ushering in a more interventionist antitrust policy....
...Both Cardell and Khan are trying to block the Microsoft-Activision deal, and the CMA has especially incensed Bobby Kotick, Activision’s chief executive....
...Activision pointed to a memo by chief executive Bobby Kotick published on Monday that said the FTC’s complaint was “a welcome update” that “accelerates the legal process”....
...Lina Khan, the commission’s Biden-appointed chair, has zealously attacked Big Tech mergers and acquisitions....
...Bobby Kotick, Activision’s chief executive, told staff that the ruling in California “signals a path to full regulatory approval elsewhere around the globe”....
...In Washington, FTC chair Lina Khan is fighting to maintain her own reputation as an opponent of anti-competitive deals after the California judge rejected the regulator’s request to block the Activision...
...The action is one of the biggest tests yet for FTC chair Lina Khan, who has vowed to crack down on Big Tech’s market power....
...The inquiry is focusing on a brunch that Alexander von Furstenberg — the son of Diller’s wife, fashion designer Diane von Furstenberg — had with Activision’s CEO Bobby Kotick days before buying options in...
...Bobby Kotick, Activision Blizzard’s chief executive, owns shares in the gaming company worth more than $370m at the price of Microsoft’s proposed takeover....
...Diller, who leads IAC, which has backed a variety of internet media brands, including Tinder and Expedia, is a friend of Activision’s chief executive Bobby Kotick....
...And this sort of speaks to a very important theme in all of this, which is that this case really represents probably the biggest test for Lina Khan, who chairs the FTC....
...On Wednesday, Home Office insiders accused mayor Sadiq Khan of having been “asleep at the wheel”. Law and order is too important to be politicised....
...Bobby Kotick, chief executive of Activision, has played down the risk of regulatory pushback, as tech behemoths such as Apple and Google are also exploring gaming....
...To war-torn London first, where the young Earl of Harpenden (Bobby) is having a stressful day....
...Diller is a friend of Activision’s chief executive Bobby Kotick and is the founder of media group IAC, which has backed various internet media brands including Tinder and Expedia....
...Additional reporting by James Fontanella-Khan in New York, Anna Gross in London and Patrick McGee in San Francisco...
...In a rare show of bipartisanship, the US Senate approved the nomination of Lina Khan to run the Federal Trade Commission....
...Bobby Tudor and Maynard Holt, two of the founders of the boutique energy investment bank Tudor Pickering Holt & Co, are retiring from the firm, says Reuters....
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...Other than Snapchat’s co-founders Mr Spiegel and Bobby Murphy, Steve Horowitz, vice president of technology, is now the only member of the leadership team that took Snap public in March 2017 who remains...
...Alex Barker and Mehreen Khan have a blow-by-blow account of events....
...Bobby Seagull, a maths teacher and a doctoral student at the University of Cambridge, tries to solve the puzzle of the great school gender divide in maths....
...The candidates: Shehbaz Sharif PAKISTAN MUSLIM LEAGUE-NAWAZ Once dubbed by the media ‘Pakistan’s Bobby Kennedy’, Shehbaz Sharif became leader of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz after his brother Nawaz...
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