What you need to know
- Microsoft is in the last stages of getting clearance for its deal to buy Activision Blizzard for almost $69 billion.
- The deal has been approved in numerous countries around the world, with Microsoft defeating the FTC in the U.S. following a court hearing.
- After delaying the decision again and again, the deal has finally been cleared in New Zealand by the Commerce Commission.
- The U.K. is the last major country needed for Microsoft to close the deal, though approvals and denials could still happen in other countries.
