The FTC isn’t too happy with Microsoft’s Activision Blizzard layoffs

https://lemmy.world/post/11697066

The FTC isn’t too happy with Microsoft’s Activision Blizzard layoffs - Lemmy.World

Microsoft-Activision-Blizzard always reminds me of this:

theonion.com/just-six-corporations-remain-1819564…

Keep in mind that article is from 1998. Prescient as always, the Onion really is America’s Finest News Source™.

Just Six Corporations Remain

NEW YORK—MCI-WorldCom and Bank One-Chase Manhattan merged in a blockbuster $112 billion deal Monday, forming the world's largest telecommunications/banking company and reducing the number of existing corporations to six.

The Onion
There's a book called The Media Monopoly that details how all of the media companies in the world have consolidated to just a handful of mega corps and the book had to be republished 5 times since the 80s because every few years the number keeps shrinking dramatically. The author later released a brand new book called The New Media Monopoly which is essentially the 7th edition of the original book and at this point we're in a fucked up late stage version of the problem he originally detailed.