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No Soup for You! Regulating tech M&A
- ▶ 0:11 Benedict Evans Well, we have, the FTC has confirmed it's suing to try and stop Microsoft from buying Activision for 60 or seventy billion dollars. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:04 Benedict Evans Um, the second point is, and I think it's kind of interesting to draw a contrast between within and Activision, um, because, or within indeed within an Instagram, because kind of the, there's a really interesting kind of theoretical…
- ▶ 9:23 Benedict Evans Um, I think the, um, Activision case is actually much less aggressive.
- ▶ 10:01 Benedict Evans I mean, just to get, you know, sort of context, so, um, Activision, it's like a 60, seventy billion dollar deal. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:08 Benedict Evans Um, it, Activision is sort of 40%, um, so it's active, it's Activision Blizzard. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:22 Benedict Evans Well, so I, I look at the, the Activision as the only thing.
- ▶ 22:30 Benedict Evans Um, I mean, part of the, um, which is not part of the narrative, sort of part of the conversation, which is not, doesn't apply to Within or Activision, is, um, so last year the FTC, um, did a study where they got Google, Apple, Facebook,…
- ▶ 29:04 Benedict Evans So there, none of this, of course, applies to, um, to the Activision deal, because this is basically a mature industry.
- ▶ 33:15 Benedict Evans The within point again, all of which it is, it's funny to say this, but like we are kind of the hook for doing the podcast was to talk about Activision.
- ▶ 33:24 Benedict Evans Um, we haven't actually talked about Activision at all, but I don't think we haven't even bothered to mention that Microsoft yesterday or last week tried to shoot the Fox by saying, um, oh, we've done a tendier deal with Nintendo and with… 3 times in the scene
The FTC's antitrust thesis
- ▶ 7:25 Benedict Evans You've also got the other side of this, which is, um, yes, but if you don't let Facebook buy within, namely any deal at all that you would allow to go through, like why is Microsoft allowed to buy Activision, which is whatever it is, a… 3 times in the scene