{"id":104735,"date":"2023-09-26T07:45:05","date_gmt":"2023-09-26T07:45:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=104735"},"modified":"2023-09-26T07:45:05","modified_gmt":"2023-09-26T07:45:05","slug":"microsofts-69b-activision-merger-on-track-for-green-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=104735","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft\u2019s $69B Activision merger on track for green light"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The UK\u2019s antitrust watchdog announced today that it has provisionally accepted Microsoft\u2019s new terms for its $69bn acquisition of Call of Duty developer Activision-Blizzard, renewing hopes that the biggest-ever gaming deal will go ahead. The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) blocked the merger in April after fears that Microsoft \u2014 which already accounts for an estimated 60% to 70% of the global cloud gaming market \u2014 would further increase its advantage by making some of the world\u2019s most popular games exclusively available on its own platforms&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/news\/microsoft-activision-deal-approved\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UK\u2019s antitrust watchdog announced today that it has provisionally accepted Microsoft\u2019s new terms for<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":104736,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lse-mrkt"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/104735-microsofts-69b-activision-merger-on-track-for-green-light.jpg-ampsignature-df7d8f7a50eb51d015e5d9974448e524",796,417,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/104735-microsofts-69b-activision-merger-on-track-for-green-light-150x150.jpg-ampsignature-df7d8f7a50eb51d015e5d9974448e524",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/104735-microsofts-69b-activision-merger-on-track-for-green-light-300x157.jpg-ampsignature-df7d8f7a50eb51d015e5d9974448e524",300,157,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/104735-microsofts-69b-activision-merger-on-track-for-green-light-768x402.jpg-ampsignature-df7d8f7a50eb51d015e5d9974448e524",640,335,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/104735-microsofts-69b-activision-merger-on-track-for-green-light.jpg-ampsignature-df7d8f7a50eb51d015e5d9974448e524",640,335,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/104735-microsofts-69b-activision-merger-on-track-for-green-light.jpg-ampsignature-df7d8f7a50eb51d015e5d9974448e524",796,417,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/104735-microsofts-69b-activision-merger-on-track-for-green-light.jpg-ampsignature-df7d8f7a50eb51d015e5d9974448e524",796,417,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/104735-microsofts-69b-activision-merger-on-track-for-green-light.jpg-ampsignature-df7d8f7a50eb51d015e5d9974448e524",796,417,false],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/104735-microsofts-69b-activision-merger-on-track-for-green-light.jpg-ampsignature-df7d8f7a50eb51d015e5d9974448e524",796,417,false],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/104735-microsofts-69b-activision-merger-on-track-for-green-light-590x410.jpg-ampsignature-df7d8f7a50eb51d015e5d9974448e524",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=26\" rel=\"category\">London Market<\/a>","tag_info":"London Market","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=104735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104735\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/104736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=104735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=104735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=104735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}