The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has said the recent spate of layoffs at Microsoft “contradict” what was presented in the antitrust trial over the company’s acquisition of Activision Blizzard.
In a letter submitted to a US Federal Appeals Court yesterday – first spotted by The Verge – the FTC argued the company’s layoff plan differs from how Microsoft represented itself in court proceedings ahead of the merger’s closure last year.
“Microsoft represented to this Court that ‘the post-merger company will be structured and operated in a way that would readily enable Microsoft to divest any or all of the Activision businesses as robust market participants in the unlikely event that such a divestiture is ordered’,” FTC counsel Imad D. Abyad wrote.
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