{"id":73420,"date":"2023-06-19T12:45:22","date_gmt":"2023-06-19T12:45:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=73420"},"modified":"2023-06-19T12:45:22","modified_gmt":"2023-06-19T12:45:22","slug":"the-eu-approves-microsofts-68-7-billion-activision-blizzard-takeover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=73420","title":{"rendered":"The EU approves Microsoft&#8217;s $68.7 billion Activision Blizzard takeover"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has overcome a significant hurdle in its attempt to buy Activision Blizzard for $68.7 billion. As expected, the European Union has rubberstamped the acquisition. The European Commission (the EU&#8217;s executive arm) said Microsoft will have to ensure full compliance with the commitments it has made to offer its games on other platforms&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/the-eu-approves-microsofts-687-billion-activision-blizzard-takeover-160319415.html?src=rss\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has overcome a significant hurdle in its attempt to buy Activision Blizzard for $68.7<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":73421,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/73420-the-eu-approves-microsofts-68-7-billion-activision-blizzard-takeover.jpg",1200,630,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/73420-the-eu-approves-microsofts-68-7-billion-activision-blizzard-takeover-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/73420-the-eu-approves-microsofts-68-7-billion-activision-blizzard-takeover-300x158.jpg",300,158,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/73420-the-eu-approves-microsofts-68-7-billion-activision-blizzard-takeover-768x403.jpg",640,336,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/73420-the-eu-approves-microsofts-68-7-billion-activision-blizzard-takeover-1024x538.jpg",640,336,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/73420-the-eu-approves-microsofts-68-7-billion-activision-blizzard-takeover.jpg",1200,630,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/73420-the-eu-approves-microsofts-68-7-billion-activision-blizzard-takeover.jpg",1200,630,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/73420-the-eu-approves-microsofts-68-7-billion-activision-blizzard-takeover-1024x538.jpg",1024,538,true],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/73420-the-eu-approves-microsofts-68-7-billion-activision-blizzard-takeover-825x575.jpg",825,575,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/73420-the-eu-approves-microsofts-68-7-billion-activision-blizzard-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=16\" rel=\"category\">Europe<\/a>","tag_info":"Europe","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73420","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=73420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73420\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/73421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}