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Activision Blizzard, Inc. ATVI, -0.17% CEO Bobby Kotick said Thursday he expects the company's $68.7 billion acquisition by Microsoft Corp. MSFT, -0.57% will still take place by Microsoft's fiscal year ending in June. "As we said from the outset, this is a long process," Kotick said in a letter to employees that the company released.
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