Enlarge / Is the Microsoft/Activision deal still “pining for the fjords”? Or has it “ceased to be”? (If you don’t get this reference, what is is like to be young?) Python (Monty) Pictures | BBC reader comments 53 with Wednesday’s decision by the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) to block Microsoft’s purchase of Activision ..
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Enlarge / A small selection of the characters that would be part of Microsoft if its proposed Activision/Blizzard merger is allowed to go through. reader comments 39 with 0 posters participating Share this story Microsoft’s legal team now expects Britain’s Competition and Markets Authority to formally oppose its long-planned $69 billion merger with Activision Blizzard. ..
Enlarge / Just a few of the Activision franchises that will become Microsoft properties if and when the acquisition is finalized. Microsoft / Activision reader comments 135 with 0 posters participating Share this story The Federal Trade Commission will “likely” move to file an antitrust lawsuit against Microsoft and Activision Blizzard to block the companies’ ..
reader comments 98 with 52 posters participating Share this story Update 2, April 1: An Activision spokesperson provided Ars Technica with the following statement: On Tuesday, the federal court approved a settlement agreement between Activision Blizzard and the EEOC that includes an $18M fund to compensate eligible claimants and to bolster enhancements to policies, practices, ..
Enlarge / A T-Mobile logo at a store in New York on April 30, 2018. Getty Images | Bloomberg reader comments 67 with 55 posters participating Share this story T-Mobile has cut at least 5,000 jobs since completing its acquisition of Sprint despite promising that the merged company would start creating new jobs “from day ..
Enlarge / Some current Arm licensees view the proposed acquisition as highly toxic. Aurich Lawson / Nvidia reader comments 102 with 74 posters participating Share this story In September 2020, Nvidia announced its intention to buy Arm, the license holder for the CPU technology that powers the vast majority of mobile and high-powered embedded systems around the world. ..
Enlarge / A field service specialist for Dish Network prepares to install a satellite TV system at a residence in Denver, Colorado, on Aug. 6, 2013. Getty Images | Bloomberg reader comments 35 with 32 posters participating Share this story T-Mobile US and Sprint are reportedly near a deal to sell spectrum, wholesale network access, ..
reader comments 55 with 42 posters participating Share this story Five US Senate Democrats today warned that the T-Mobile US/Sprint merger could hurt consumers and urged the Senate Commerce Committee to hold a hearing on the deal’s potential harms. The Democrats sent a letter to Commerce Committee Chairman Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) asking him to schedule ..
Enlarge / A T-Mobile logo on the window of a retail store in Washington, D.C., on Thursday, Oct. 23, 2014. (credit: Getty Images | Bloomberg) T-Mobile USA’s proposed acquisition of Sprint would harm competitors and consumers, particularly in rural America, lobby groups for small carriers say. The Rural Wireless Association (RWA), NTCA–The Rural Broadband Association, ..
(credit: Comcast) Comcast today said it is preparing an offer to buy major portions of 21st Century Fox, which would give it majority control of Hulu and other media properties. Walt Disney Company already has a $52.4 billion all-stock deal to buy the 21st Century Fox properties. But Comcast was rumored to be lining up ..