An already big company consolidates its power.
. With the Activision Blizzard acquisition, it would integrate a massive game publisher into that system.That new market power could raise eyebrows at the US Justice Department and Federal Trade Commission, which will have to approve the merger. While neither agency has commented on the recent announcement, they’ve committed to more carefully examining tech industry consolidation —to start overhauling the approval process.
The new generation of antitrust activists has recently taken particular aim at vertical mergers. In September of last year, the FTCthat agency chair Lina Khan said wrongly attributed helpful effects like increased efficiency to them — calling claims that they provided consumer benefits “misguided.”
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