How the Microsoft-Activision Deal Came Back From the Dead
The software giant outmaneuvered regulators to shift its fortunes in the $69 billion deal to buy Activision Blizzard.
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If Microsoft Corp. completes its acquisition of Activision Blizzard in the coming months, the $69 billion deal will go down as one of the biggest comeback stories in the history of mergers.
By this past April, the gaming industry's biggest acquisition ever appeared doomed. US regulators had filed a challenge to the takeover and their counterparts in the UK had blocked it outright.