{"id":4451,"date":"2008-04-16T10:21:44","date_gmt":"2008-04-16T17:21:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/?post_type=news&#038;p=4451"},"modified":"2013-03-11T20:18:53","modified_gmt":"2013-03-12T03:18:53","slug":"vivendi-gets-anti-trust-nod","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/vivendi-gets-anti-trust-nod\/","title":{"rendered":"Vivendi Gets Anti-Trust Nod"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5993\" alt=\"FRANCE-GAMES-INTERNET-VIVENDI-ACTIVISION-FILES\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/Vivendi-S.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"176\" \/>APRIL 16, 2008 \u2022 Europe&#8217;s top anti-trust watchdog determined that Vivendi&#8217;s proposed purchase of Activision Inc. would not threaten competition. &#8220;The Commissions examination of the proposed transaction showed that the horizontal overlaps between the activities of Vivendi and Activision in relation to game software publishing are limited.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><em>Impact: Vivendi has a strong presence in online games and Activision has been strong with retail publishing.\u00a0 Right now these are two very separate areas so the European Commission seems right on point in highlighting the lack of overlap.\u00a0 The Commission also highlighted how the new company has significant competition from several players.\u00a0 This underlines DFC&#8217;s argument that the game industry is becoming more fragmented, not more consolidated.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>APRIL 16, 2008 \u2022 Europe&#8217;s top anti-trust watchdog determined that Vivendi&#8217;s proposed purchase of Activision Inc. would not threaten competition. &#8220;The Commissions examination of the proposed transaction showed that the horizontal overlaps between the activities of Vivendi and Activision in relation to game software publishing are limited.&#8221; Impact: Vivendi has a strong presence in online [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4451"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4451"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5992,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4451\/revisions\/5992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}