UK Rejects Microsoft Anger After Regulator Blocks Activision Deal
- PM Sunak’s spokesman says UK will keep working with Microsoft
- Microsoft president said blockage of deal is ‘bad for Britain’
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The UK disputed criticism by Microsoft Corp. after the country’s antitrust watchdog blocked a proposed $69 billion deal for Activision Blizzard Inc.
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s spokesman, Max Blain, told reporters that Microsoft President Brad Smith was misguided in saying that the decision to block the deal was “bad for Britain.” Smith spoke earlier to the BBC, criticizing the move by the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority to intervene in the blockbuster gaming deal.