{"id":60677,"date":"2023-05-01T07:47:07","date_gmt":"2023-05-01T07:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=60677"},"modified":"2023-05-01T07:47:07","modified_gmt":"2023-05-01T07:47:07","slug":"game-over-microsofts-massive-69-billion-metaverse-takeover-halted-by-uk-regulators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=60677","title":{"rendered":"Game Over: Microsoft\u2019s Massive $69 Billion Metaverse Takeover Halted by UK Regulators"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) blocked the Microsoft metaverse-related purchase of Activision Blizzard today. The giant company had been planning the acquisition since last year as a first step on its Metaverse-building journey. The move aims to address competition concerns, particularly in the cloud gaming marketplace&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/nftevening.com\/game-over-microsofts-massive-69-billion-metaverse-takeover-halted-by-uk-regulators\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) blocked the Microsoft metaverse-related purchase of Activision Blizzard<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lse-mrkt"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","chromenews-featured":"","chromenews-large":"","chromenews-medium":""},"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\/60677","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=60677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60677\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}