MS team is not playing around.
So all these 10 year cloud deals, any chance there is sneaky exclusivity language in there that prohibits them from working or partnering with Sony? That would pretty much shut Sony out entirely of the new cloud market or finding partners to work with. I donât think they would do that, but it would be a master-class move!
Lol, no chance at all. Itâd be a good way to get their concessions not approved.
Jez getâs âhateâ in the Xbox community? News to me. Most of the hate I see him get is from other era and some folks on Twitter. He has some very head scratching takes when it comes to gaming but I never saw all that much hate for him coming from this community.
Honestly never want to see anyone disparaging Greenberg for âappealling to fanboysâ anymore after this.
Good olâ Ken Kutaragi. I kinda miss him.
Today is the deadline for final submissions to the CMA. After today, hopefully the next we hear from the CMA is the outcome
Great to see the parity talk that Sony talk about in full effectâŠ/s
Ok guys we are really close to know the fate of this acquisition. It could even end in the next 2 days so lets hope for the best!
Interesting that the major decision will happen before Microsoft earning call.
Unfortunately even if we hear good news on what the CMA thought of the remedies, thereâs still how Microsoft deal with the FTC. I just donât see a Lina Khan led FTC accepting anything, she knows she has almost no chance of blocking the deals sheâs opposing but she seems to want to make it as drawn out a process as possible. I do hope Microsoft announce they will close the deal if they get approval from the EU & UK and force the FTCâs hand and having to go and get an injunction in federal court bypassing the whole FTC in house hearing
MS will close without the FTC and it will be a side issue that goes to court in the fall and the FTC will lose but it will not prevent the close of the deal.
Or the FTC just folds and drops it if the EC and CMA both approve. Less likely, but still possible.
Random footnote on the AKB acquisition from my personal life. I spent about ten hours today reviewing the entire timeline of the acquisition process to prepare for a conference presentation I have coming up soon. Iâll be presenting a working paper (to a bunch of other academic eggheads) about the regulatory response to the deal.
I am actually working on two different academic papers on the merger. Both are case studies designed to be used in classrooms. One is quite short, targeting undergraduate students in an economics or finance class. The other will be much longer and more detailed, targeting graduate students.
The upcoming presentation is for the bigger paper. My ten hours of work today was spent reviewing every Wall Street Journal article related to the merger, every Foss Patents blog post, and everything I could find on Bloomberg Business Intelligence (which was not very much). Honestly, I could write the entire paper using Foss Patents analysis, but I need some variety in my citations to keep the other eggheads happy.
No access to Mlex?
No. I have a personal Bloomberg terminal, but like I said I found the info there to be far inferior to what I could get elsewhere.
Mlex has its own subscription service. So as far as I know it isnât included with Bloomberg. I canât afford both. Ha
departments should really be paying for things like that imo⊠but i digress. but you defintely should be an âexpertâ on this acquisition now, heh.
New MLex update on the âgamersâ (lol) lawsuit out. Juicy tidbits:
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The gamerâs lawsuit will get a dual US court hearing on May 12th.
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US District Judge Jacqueline Scott Corley said sheâs taking the case âin piecesâ , and the dual hearings will be focused on an essential question the plaintiffs need to address: whether the deal would cause immediate irreparable harm to consumers.
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Microsoftâs lawyers told Judge Corley the issue of whether the plaintiffs will suffer irreparable harm if the deal closes is âa huge issue that they have not addressed in this complaint.â
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âThe only thing they are saying is that at some point in time there will be a new Call of Duty and that it will be exclusiveâ to Microsoft devices and platforms, Microsoftâs lawyer told the judge. This means the bid for a preliminary injunction would fall short of the statutory requirement that plaintiffs show they will suffer immediate damage, she argued.
