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The tentative date for the official appeal hearing was set by the UK's Competition Appeal Tribunal by the judge, the Honourable Mr. Justice Marcus Smith, during a case management conference today.

The Korea Fair Trade Commission has approved Microsoft's plan to acquire Activision Blizzard with no conditions, due in part that the game publisher's titles are not very popular in the country.

Microsoft has several specific points it will raise to the CMA's Competition Appeal Tribunal to show why its decision to block its purchase of Activision Blizzard should be overturned.

In a speech today in Brussels, Belgium, Margrethe Vestager, the EVP for the European Commission, offered its reasons why it approved of Microsoft's acquisition of Activision Blizzard.

The appeal was made to the CMA's Competition Appeal Tribunal by Microsoft, but it's currently unknown how long the group will take to make a decision on whether or not to overturn the ruling.

The UK's Competition and Markets Authority has issued a response to the EU's approval of Microsoft's purchase of Activision Blizzard, and it's clear the two groups have different cloud gaming views.

The European Commission regulatory body of the EU has approved Microsoft's planned purchase of Activision Blizzard, but the company must abide by some conditions with cloud gaming features.

Microsoft Activision deal recently faced blowback from the UK regulator who rejected the deal. While the UK is not happy with the deal, a report suggests that the EU will approve the deal soon.

After Microsoft's £55 billion takeover of Activision Blizzard was blocked in the UK, the company brought in top legal talent to take the fight to the UK's CMA in a Competition Appeal Tribunal.

Ukraine's Antimonopoly Committee has given its approval for Microsoft to purchase Activision Blizzard for $69 billion, even as the UK's regulatory authority rejected the deal earlier this week.

An NVIDIA spokesperson has confirmed that its GeForce Now cloud gaming service is still scheduled to get Microsoft's Xbox and PC games even if the Activision Blizzard acquisition does not go forward.

In an interview with the BBC, Microsoft President Brad Smith said this week's decision to block its Activision Blizzard purchase makes the EU "a more attractive place to start a business" than the UK.

While Microsoft's stock price seems to be unaffected by today's news of the UK's rejection of its purchase of Activision Blizzard, the game publisher is suffering from a major stock downturn.

Microsoft President Brad Smith said that the company remains "fully committed to our acquisition" of Activision Blizzard and said it was "especially disappointed" with today's CMA decision.

The UK Competition and Markets Authority has decided that Microsoft's deal to buy Activision Blizzard "would damage competition in the Cloud Gaming market" and has rejected the $69 billion acquisition

A new report claims that if the UK and EU regulators approve Microsoft acquiring Activision Blizzard, the company could close the deal soon afterwards, and take the chances with the UK FTC's lawsuit.

The report comes from redacted internal Microsoft papers that are a part of an ongoing lawsuit by a group of gamers who are opposed to Microsoft acquiring the game publisher Activision Blizzard.

South Africa's Competition Commission says the deal for Microsoft to acquire Activision Blizzard would not cause "a substantial prevention or lessening of competition" in the game industry.

The new 10-year PC cloud gaming agreement with the UK wireless provider EE is Microsoft's latest such deal to convince UK regulators to approve its $69 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard.

Sony says that the UK CMA regulator has understated how much money Microsoft could make if Call of Duty was made into an Xbox-exclusive title under a merger with Activision Blizzard.

Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick published an email sent to the company's employees about its plans to be bought by Microsoft, and slammed Sony for its attempts to block the merger.