{"id":440327,"date":"2026-05-22T17:15:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T17:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/440327\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T17:15:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T17:15:09","slug":"activision-shareholders-reach-250-million-settlement-over-microsoft-buyout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/440327\/","title":{"rendered":"Activision shareholders reach $250 million settlement over Microsoft buyout"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">By Tom Hals<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">WILMINGTON, DEL., May \u200c22 (Reuters) &#8211; Shareholders \u200cof Activision Blizzard \u200breached a $250 million settlement over allegations that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/organizations\/microsoft\/\" data-ylk=\"slk:Microsoft;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Microsoft&quot;}\" class=\"link \" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Microsoft<\/a> (<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/quote\/MSFT\/\" data-i13n=\"cpos:1;pos:1\" data-ylk=\"slk:MSFT;cpos:1;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkPosition&quot;:&quot;1&quot;,&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yPosition&quot;:&quot;1&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;MSFT&quot;,&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\" target=\"_blank\">MSFT<\/a>) \u200cand \u2060former executives of the \u2060maker of the &#8220;Call of \u200bDuty&#8221; video \u200bgame \u200bshortchanged them \u200cwhen the software giant acquired it in 2023 for $75.4 billion, \u200caccording to \u200ba \u200blate \u200bThursday court \u200cfiling in a \u200bDelaware \u200bstate court.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">(Reporting by Tom \u200bHals \u200cin Wilmington, Delaware, \u200bEditing by \u200bFranklin Paul)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Tom Hals WILMINGTON, DEL., May \u200c22 (Reuters) &#8211; Shareholders \u200cof Activision Blizzard \u200breached a $250 million settlement&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":440328,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[48837,609,111,139,69,201822,145],"class_list":["post-440327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-activision-blizzard","tag-microsoft","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-software-giant","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=440327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440327\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/440328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=440327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=440327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=440327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}