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Comment: Microsoft's Activision deal comes as regulators cool on behavioral remedies

By Andrew Boyce and Nicholas Hirst ( October 4, 2022, 10:04 GMT | Comment) -- Microsoft’s takeover of videogame developer Activision Blizzard, for which it sought EU approval last Friday, is the kind of transaction where competition concerns could normally be fixed by behavioral promises. But the deal comes at a time when regulators are taking a dimmer view of such offers, begging the question of whether any such promise would go far enough to satisfy the European Commission.Microsoft’s takeover of videogame developer Activision Blizzard, for which it sought EU approval last week, is the kind of transaction where competition concerns could normally be fixed by behavioral promises in Europe and beyond....

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