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Microsoft to acquire Activision Blizzard for $68.7 billion – Microsoft is acquiring Activision, the troubled publisher of Call of Duty, World of Warcraft, and Diablo. The deal will value Activision at $68.7 billion, far in excess of the $26 billion Microsoft paid to acquire LinkedIn in 2016. Its Microsofts biggest push into gaming, and the company says it will …