Time is running out on a deadline for Microsoft to complete its $69 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard , compelling the companies to ask a U.S. judge on Wednesday to quickly get the ball rolling on the Federal Trade Commission's legal bid to block the deal.
, compelling the companies to ask a U.S. judge on Wednesday to quickly get the ball rolling on the Federal Trade Commission's legal bid to block the deal.
The hearing will focus on whether to put the deal on hold while an administrative judge considers the case. But the companies said if a temporary hold is granted they would have to drop the deal altogether because the "glacial" pace of the FTC review would make waiting impractical.
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