{"id":60031,"date":"2023-04-29T07:46:56","date_gmt":"2023-04-29T07:46:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=60031"},"modified":"2023-04-29T07:46:56","modified_gmt":"2023-04-29T07:46:56","slug":"uk-blocks-microsofts-69-bn-activision-takeover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=60031","title":{"rendered":"UK blocks Microsoft\u2019s $69-bn Activision takeover"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Britain on Wednesday blocked Microsoft\u2019s $69-billion takeover of US video game giant Activision Blizzard, arguing it would harm competition in cloud gaming and leaving the blockbuster deal in peril. The UK\u2019s Competition and Markets Authority prevented the deal \u201cover concerns\u2026 (it) would alter the future of the fast-growing cloud gaming market&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.digitaljournal.com\/business\/uk-blocks-microsofts-69-bn-activision-takeover\/article\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Britain on Wednesday blocked Microsoft\u2019s $69-billion takeover of US video game giant Activision Blizzard, arguing<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":60032,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60031","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\/04\/60031-uk-blocks-microsofts-69-bn-activision-takeover.jpg",768,511,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/60031-uk-blocks-microsofts-69-bn-activision-takeover-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/60031-uk-blocks-microsofts-69-bn-activision-takeover-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/60031-uk-blocks-microsofts-69-bn-activision-takeover.jpg",640,426,false],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/60031-uk-blocks-microsofts-69-bn-activision-takeover.jpg",640,426,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/60031-uk-blocks-microsofts-69-bn-activision-takeover.jpg",768,511,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/60031-uk-blocks-microsofts-69-bn-activision-takeover.jpg",768,511,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/60031-uk-blocks-microsofts-69-bn-activision-takeover.jpg",768,511,false],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/60031-uk-blocks-microsofts-69-bn-activision-takeover.jpg",768,511,false],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/60031-uk-blocks-microsofts-69-bn-activision-takeover-590x410.jpg",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\/60031","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=60031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60031\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/60032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}