The UK has restricted Microsoft and Activision from acquiring an interest in each other after blocking $68.7 billion merger

• The UK is restricting Microsoft and Activision from acquiring an interest in each other.
• The competition regulator published an interim order to prevent any action without its consent.
• The decision comes weeks after it made a decision to block a $68.7 billion merger between the two.

The UK's competition regulator has issued an interim order to restrict Microsoft and Activision from acquiring an interest in each other.

It comes weeks after the decision by the regulator, the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA),  to block a $68.7 billion merger between the two companies.