๐ŸŽฎ๐Ÿ’ฅ ๋งˆ์ดํฌ๋กœ์†Œํ”„ํŠธ, ์•ฝ์† ์–ด๊ธฐ๊ณ  ์–ด๋–ค๊ฑฐ ์•„๋‹˜ ์ด์ „ ๋Œ€์™ธ์  ๊ฒฝ์Ÿ๋ฒ• ์žฌํŒ ์ฆ์–ธ๊ณผ ๋ฐ˜๋Œ€๋กœ ํ•ด๊ณ  ์ง„ํ–‰ ๐Ÿ’ฅ๐ŸŽฎ

๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๋งˆ์ดํฌ๋กœ์†Œํ”„ํŠธ๊ฐ€ ํญ๋กœ๋˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค

FTC๋Š” Microsoft์˜ Activision Blizzard์—์„œ์˜ ํ•ด๊ณ ์— ๋ถˆ๋งŒ์„ ํ‘œ๋ช…ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Microsoft๊ณผ Activision Blizzard์˜ ํ•ฉ๋ณ‘์œผ๋กœ ์ธํ•œ ํŒŒ๊ธ‰ํšจ๊ณผ๋Š” ๊ณ„์†๋˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ๊ธฐ์ˆ  ๊ฑฐ๋ฌผ์€ Federal Trade Commission (FTC)์˜ ๊ณผ์ง•๊ธˆ ๋ฐ˜๋Œ€ ์†Œ์†ก ์ค‘์— ํ•œ ์•ฝ์†์„ ์–ด๊ธฐ๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•ด๊ณ ๋Š” ๋…ผ๋ž€์„ ์ผ์œผํ‚ค๊ณ  ํšŒ์‚ฌ์˜ ์˜๋„์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์งˆ๋ฌธ์„ ๋˜์ง€๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๐Ÿ“š ๊ฐ€์น˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ์ •๋ณด์™€ ์œ ์šฉํ•œ ์ง€์‹

Microsoft๋Š” 1์›”์— ์ž์‚ฌ์˜ ๊ฒŒ์ž„ ๋ถ€๋ฌธ์—์„œ 1,900๋ช…์˜ ์ง์›์„ ํ•ด๊ณ ํ•  ๊ฒƒ์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ๋ฐœํ‘œํ–ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ๊ทธ ์ค‘ ์ƒ๋‹น์ˆ˜๋Š” ์ตœ๊ทผ ์ธ์ˆ˜ํ•œ Activision Blizzard์—์„œ ์˜จ ์ง์›๋“ค์ด์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ๋‚˜ ์ด๋™์€ Microsoft๊ฐ€ FTC ์†Œ์†ก์ค‘์— ๋ฒ•์ •์—์„œ ์ด์ „์— ํ•œ ๋ฐœ์–ธ๊ณผ ๋ฐ”๋กœ ๋ฐ˜๋Œ€๋˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. FTC ๋ณ€ํ˜ธ์‚ฌ Imad Abyad๋Š” Microsoft์˜ ๋ฐœ์–ธ์— ๋ชจ์ˆœ์„ฑ์„ ๋“œ๋Ÿฌ๋‚ด๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ์—ฐ๋ฐฉํ•ญ์†Œ๋ฒ•์›์— ํŽธ์ง€๋ฅผ ์ œ์ถœํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Abyad์— ๋”ฐ๋ฅด๋ฉด Microsoft๋Š” ํ•ฉ๋ณ‘ ํšŒ์‚ฌ๊ฐ€ Microsoft์™€ Activision Blizzard ์‚ฌ์ด์˜ ๋…๋ฆฝ์„ฑ์„ ์œ ์ง€ํ•˜๊ณ  ๋ชจ๋“  ๋˜๋Š” ์ผ๋ถ€ Activision ์‚ฌ์—…์„ ์ฒ˜๋ถ„ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ๋Šฅ๋ ฅ์„ ๋ณด์ฆํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ๋‚˜ ํ•ด๊ณ ๋Š” ๋…๋ฆฝ์„ฑ์˜ ๋ถ€์žฌ๋ฅผ ์‹œ์‚ฌํ•˜๋ฉฐ ํšŒ์‚ฌ์˜ ์‹ค์ œ ์˜๋„์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์šฐ๋ ค๋ฅผ ์ œ๊ธฐํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๐Ÿ—‚๏ธ ์ฝ˜ํ…์ธ  ๋…ผ๋ฆฌ์™€ ๊ตฌ์กฐ์˜ ์žฌ๊ตฌ์ถ•

  1. ์œ„์•ฝํ•œ ์•ฝ์†๊ณผ ํ•ด๊ณ  Microsoft์˜ ํ•ด๊ณ ๋Š” Activision Blizzard์˜ ๋…๋ฆฝ์„ฑ๊ณผ ์‚ฌ์—…์„ ์ฒ˜๋ถ„ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ๋Šฅ๋ ฅ๊ณผ ๊ด€๋ จํ•œ FTC ์นจํ•ด๋ฐ˜๋Œ€ ์†Œ์†ก์—์„œ ํ•œ ์•ฝ์†๊ณผ ๋ชจ์ˆœ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

  2. ๋ชจ์ˆœ๊ณผ ๋ถˆ์ผ์น˜ FTC ๋ณ€ํ˜ธ์‚ฌ๋Š” Microsoft์˜ ๋ฒ•์ • ๋ฐœ์–ธ๊ณผ ํ•ด๊ณ  ์‚ฌ์ด์˜ ๋ชจ์ˆœ์„ ๊ฐ•์กฐํ•˜๋ฉฐ, ํšŒ์‚ฌ์˜ ์‹ค์ œ ๋™๊ธฐ์™€ ์˜๋„์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์งˆ๋ฌธ์„ ์ œ๊ธฐํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

  3. FTC๋Š” ํ•ฉ๋ณ‘ ์†Œ์†ก์„ ํ•ญ์†Œํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค Microsoft์™€ Activision Blizzard์˜ ํ•ฉ๋ณ‘ ์Šน์ธ ๊ฒฐ์ •์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ํ•ญ์†Œ๋ฅผ ์ œ์ถœํ•œ FTC๋Š” ํ•ฉ๋ณ‘์„ ๋ฌดํšจํ™”์‹œํ‚ค๊ณ  ๋ฒ•์ • ํŒ๊ฒฐ์„ ํ†ตํ•ด ํ•ฉ๋ณ‘์„ ์ค‘์ง€ํ•˜๋ ค๊ณ  ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

  4. ์„ฑ๊ณต ๊ฐ€๋Šฅ์„ฑ์˜ ๋‚ฎ์Œ FTC๋Š” ๊ณผ๊ฑฐ์— ํ•ฉ๋ณ‘์„ ํ•ด์ œํ•œ ์ ์ด ์žˆ์ง€๋งŒ, Microsoft์™€์˜ ์„ฑ๊ณต ๊ฐ€๋Šฅ์„ฑ์€ ๋‚ฎ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ๋‚˜ ํ•ด๊ณ ๋Š” FTC๊ฐ€ ์ถ”๊ตฌํ•˜๋Š” “ํšจ๊ณผ์ ์ธ ๊ตฌ์ œ”๋ฅผ ๋ณต์žกํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋งŒ๋“ญ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๐Ÿ’ก ๋…์ž์˜ ๊ด€์‹ฌ์‚ฌ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ Q&A๋กœ ํ•ด๊ฒฐ

Q: Microsoft๋Š” FTC ์†Œ์†ก ์ค‘์— ์–ด๋–ค ์•ฝ์†์„ ํ–ˆ๋‚˜์š”? A: Microsoft๋Š” Activision Blizzard๊ฐ€ ๋…๋ฆฝ์ ์œผ๋กœ ์œ ์ง€๋  ๊ฒƒ์ด๋ฉฐ, ์‚ฌ์—…์˜ ์ผ๋ถ€ ๋˜๋Š” ์ „์ฒด๋ฅผ ์ฒ˜๋ถ„ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ๋Šฅ๋ ฅ์ด ์žˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋ฒ•์ •์— ๋ณด์ฆํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Q: ํ•ด๊ณ ๋Š” Microsoft์˜ ์ด์ „ ๋ฐœ์–ธ๊ณผ ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ๋ชจ์ˆœ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๊นŒ? A: ํ•ด๊ณ ๋Š” Microsoft์™€ Activision Blizzard ์‚ฌ์ด์˜ ๋…๋ฆฝ์„ฑ ๋ถ€์žฌ๋ฅผ ์‹œ์‚ฌํ•˜๋ฉฐ, ํšŒ์‚ฌ์˜ ์‹ค์ œ ์˜๋„์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์šฐ๋ ค๋ฅผ ์ œ๊ธฐํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Q: FTC๋Š” ํ•ด๊ณ ๊ฐ€ ์ผ์–ด๋‚œ ํ›„์—๋„ ํ•ฉ๋ณ‘ ๊ฒฐ์ •์— ํ•ญ์†Œํ•˜๋Š” ์ด์œ ๋Š” ๋ฌด์—‡์ธ๊ฐ€์š”? A: FTC๋Š” ํ•ฉ๋ณ‘์„ ๋ฌดํšจํ™”์‹œํ‚ค๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ํ•ฉ๋ณ‘์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ํ•ญ์†Œ๋ฅผ ์ œ์ถœํ•˜์˜€์œผ๋ฉฐ, ํ•ด๊ณ ๋Š” ๊ทธ๋“ค์ด “ํšจ๊ณผ์ ์ธ ๊ตฌ์ œ”๋ฅผ ์ถ”๊ตฌํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ๋ณต์žกํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋งŒ๋“ญ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๐Ÿ“š๐Ÿ”— ์ฐธ๊ณ  ๋ฌธํ—Œ ๋ชฉ๋ก

  1. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) antitrust trial
  2. Microsoft Layoffs
  3. CEO Phil Spencerโ€™s Statement
  4. Video game company layoffs are creating an industry crisis
  5. Microsoft and Activision Blizzard merger
  6. FTC appeal of the merger decision
  7. Whole Foods acquisition of Wild Oats Marketplace
  8. FTCโ€™s history of undoing mergers

๐ŸŽฎ๐ŸŒ ๋Œ€ํ™”์— ์ฐธ์—ฌํ•˜๊ณ  ์†Œ์…œ ๋ฏธ๋””์–ด์—์„œ ๊ณต์œ ํ•˜์„ธ์š”!

Microsoft์™€ Activision Blizzard์˜ ํ•ฉ๋ณ‘์ด ๊ฒŒ์ž„ ์‚ฐ์—…์— ํฐ ํŒŒ์žฅ์„ ์ผ์œผํ‚ค๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด kontroversialํ•œ ์ฃผ์ œ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์ƒ๊ฐ๊ณผ ์˜๊ฒฌ์„ ๊ณต์œ ํ•ด์ฃผ์„ธ์š”. ๋งˆ์ดํฌ๋กœ ์†Œํ”„ํŠธ์˜ ์ธ์‚ฌ ๊ฐ์ถ•์€ ๊ทธ๋“ค์˜ ์•ฝ์†๊ณผ ๋ชจ์ˆœ๋˜๋‚˜์š”? ์—ฐ๋ฐฉ ๊ฑฐ๋ž˜์œ„์›ํšŒ(FTC)๋Š” ํ•ฉ๋ณ‘์„ ์ทจ์†Œํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐ ์„ฑ๊ณตํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์„๊นŒ์š”? ์•Œ๋ ค์ฃผ์„ธ์š”!