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You jest, but the FTC is trying to appeal (undo) the merger in court, and this makes their case a lot stronger: https://www.reuters.com/markets/deals/us-ftc-tries-again-stop-microsofts-already-closed-deal-activision-2023-12-06/
For a 68,000,000,000$ deal, even if this helps the FTC by 1%, that's a huge risk
Good. After they un-merge them they can break them up into even smaller pieces. That way in another 30 years when we forget about antitrust against they can re-assemble the monopoly. Fun for everyone!
Basically Ma Bell.
I got the ill communication
If they actually managed to, my faith in humanity would be restored a little bit
You took all that effort to put the zeros and commas in, but put the $ on the wrong side of the number.
Neat.
Probably European.
What?? On the internet???
oh no, literally undecipherable
Lmao found the American.
How dare people write in the spoken order!