Microsoft logo is seen on a smartphone placed on displayed Activision Blizzard logo in this illustration taken January 18, 2022. Dado Ruvic | Reuters Britain’s top competition watchdog on Friday gave the green light to Microsoft’s proposed $69 billion takeover of gaming firm Activision Blizzard, removing the last major hurdle for the deal to close. … Read more
When Vodafone and Hutchison-owned Three in the U.K. announced their plan to merge in a non-cash deal to create a $19B mega mobile operator in June of this year, we noted that it would likely face a sizeable regulatory hurdle. The next chapter in that story opened up today: the country’s Competition and Markets Authority, … Read more
Microsoft submitted a new proposal to U.K. regulators for the takeover of American game publisher Activision Blizzard after its initial proposal was rejected. Nurphoto | Nurphoto | Getty Images LONDON — The U.K.’s competition regulator on Friday said Microsoft’s restructured takeover proposal of Activision Blizzard, submitted in August, “opens the door to the deal being … Read more
Microsoft appears to be one step closer to closing its $69 billion acquisition of game publisher Activision Blizzard. The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) says Microsoft has remedied the regulatory issues laid out earlier in the year, according to a press release Friday. The regulator said the Xbox maker’s decision last month to sell cloud … Read more
Touch upon this storyComment LONDON — Outspoken British tabloid columnist and tv host Jeremy Clarkson has been reprimanded by the nation’s press requirements regulator over a controversial opinion column he wrote about Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, during which he described imagining her stripped bare and publicly humiliated earlier than jeering crowds. The article by Clarkson, … Read more
A vacuuming Roomba mannequin robotic is displayed at iRobot headquarters in Bedford, Massachusetts Scott Eells | Bloomberg | Getty Photos Amazon’s deliberate $1.7 billion acquisition of iRobot, the maker of Roomba vacuums, has been greenlit by Britain’s competitors watchdog. The Competitors and Markets Authority stated it decided the deal wouldn’t lead to “a considerable lessening … Read more
MEPs within the European Parliament took the chance of a uncommon in-person look by Eire’s knowledge safety commissioner, Helen Dixon, to criticize the bloc’s lead privateness regulator for many of Large Tech over how lengthy it’s taking to research the video-sharing social media platform TikTok. This concern is the most recent expression of wider worries … Read more