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Microsoft completes its Activision Blizzard acquisition after a 20-month battle with regulators in the UK and the US; Bobby Kotick will remain CEO through 2023 — The Verge exclusively reported last week that Microsoft was planning to close today, and now it's official.
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| Samuel Tolbert / Windows Central: |
The UK CMA approves Microsoft's $68.7B Activision Blizzard acquisition, after Microsoft reformed the deal to sell some Activision cloud gaming rights to Ubisoft — The final roadblock has been removed. — What you need to know — UK regulatory authority the CMA granted Microsoft approval to purchase Activision Blizzard.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
A look at Microsoft's deal with Ubisoft, which now gets the cloud gaming rights for Call of Duty and current Activision games outside of the EU for 15 years — Microsoft's giant Activision Blizzard deal is complete, and it means Ubisoft has now obtained cloud streaming rights for Call of Duty … | Wall Street Journal: |
Microsoft has spent $170B+ on acquisitions under Satya Nadella, per Dealogic, helping to nearly triple revenue and become central in sectors like AI and gaming — Companies completed the deal—the largest in Microsoft's nearly 50-year history—after regulators' concerns were addressed| New York Times: |
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Meta responds to the EU's concerns about Israel-Hamas war misinformation, saying the company formed an operations center, restricted certain hashtags, and more — The company has created a new operations center with experts fluent in Hebrew and Arabic. — Meta has shared an updated content … | Jo Marchant / Nature: |
A student wins a contest to read the text inside a carbonized Roman scroll, which had been unreadable since a volcanic eruption in AD 79, using an ML algorithm — A 21-year-old computer-science student has won a global contest to read the first text inside a carbonized scroll …
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| Jason Schreier / Bloomberg: |
CD Projekt used AI to recreate the voice of Miłogost Reczek, a Polish voice actor who died in 2021, for Cyberpunk 2077's new Polish DLC, after asking his family — Gamemaker says it consulted with family of the late Miłogost Reczek — Polish video game developer CD Projekt SA …
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Canon begins selling nanoimprint chip machines, which impress circuit patterns onto wafers without photolithography, likely avoiding trade curbs, to rival ASML — - Japanese optics specialist seeks to close gap with Dutch rival — Chipmaking machinery has been focus of US sanctions on China| Yogita Khatri / The Block: |
Tether promotes long-time CTO Paolo Ardoino to CEO, starting in December, and plans to become a “tech-centric organization”; the current CEO will be an advisor — - Stablecoin issuer Tether promoted its long-time CTO Paolo Ardoino to CEO as it envisions becoming a “tech-centric organization.”| Brian Heater / TechCrunch: |
Mojo Vision, which pivoted from AR contact lenses to microLED panels, raised a $21.1M Series A extension led by NEA and Khosla, bringing its Series A to $43.5M — Back in April, Mojo Vision announced a new $22.4 million Series A. Six months later, the round has nearly doubled to $43.5 million …
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In five hours of cross-examination, SBF's lawyer did not elicit any revelations or inconsistencies from Caroline Ellison, who said SBF made “terrible mistakes” — Mr. Bankman-Fried's lawyers sought to poke holes in Ms. Ellison's testimony, but her account remained largely consistent.
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| Reuters: |
TSMC expects to get US approval to supply its China plant with US chipmaking tools indefinitely, in an easing of US restrictions on foreign chipmakers in China — Taiwan's TSMC (2330.TW) said on Friday it expects to receive permission from the United States to supply its China plant … | Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: |
Nvidia plans to raise the price of its GeForce Now cloud gaming service in Canada and some European countries in November, citing “increased operational costs” — Nvidia GeForce Now is perhaps the best cloud gaming service in the wake of Google Stadia's death (and even before that) … | Ed Nightingale / Eurogamer.net: |
Hands-on with Sony's PlayStation Access and a Q&A with PlayStation executive Alvin Daniel on designing the customizable accessibility controller, cost, and more — And the “upward trend” of accessibility across the industry. — I recently got to test out PlayStation Access at a hands …
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India rolls back its plan announced on August 3 to impose restrictions on laptop imports, saying the government “only wants importers to be on close watch” — India is rolling back its earlier plan to impose restrictions on laptop imports, months after abruptly announcing … Sponsor Posts
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