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 …
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
Who would have thought that a regulatory body that refused to let Meta buy Giphy would allow Microsoft to buy Activision? … Bluesky: Knoebel / @knoebel.bsky.social : The Cloud Deal with Ubisoft change...
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
Combining with Microsoft will enable us to deliver more fun, more joy … BBC : Microsoft completes $69bn takeover of Call of Duty maker Activision Blizzard Tom Warren / The Verge : Read Xbox chief Phil...
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 …
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
#ActivisionBlizzard — “Microsoft Closes $75 Billion Activision Blizzard Deal. Tom Phalen : Great Article. Surprise to me was that in recent years Microsoft in recent years made 326 deals totaling $...
The US FTC says it remains focused on its appeal opposing Microsoft's acquisition of Activision and will “assess” the company's cloud gaming deal with Ubisoft
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission said on Friday it remained focused on its appeal opposing Xbox maker Microsoft's …
The HTTP/2 Rapid Reset flaw, which was exploited to launch record-setting DDoS attacks, requires patching every web server before the problem can be eradicated
Dubbed “HTTP/2 Rapid Reset,” the flaw requires making patches available for virtually every web server around the world before the problem can be eradicated.
As China-linked Bitcoin mines open across the US, officials raise national security concerns, like about a Wyoming mine that is close to a nuclear missile base
Microsoft reported one site in Wyoming because of its proximity to a data center and nuclear missile base.
The Microsoft-Activision deal closure shows that tech giants can still grow by getting “vertical mergers” through courts and regulators relatively unscathed
With the completion of the blockbuster acquisition, the notion that tech giants can grow through “vertical transactions” remains intact.
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”
because SBF had over $10 billion in assets in FTX equity. Teddy Schleifer / @teddyschleifer : But shortly before 3 p.m., Caroline Ellison left the courtroom. She did not make any eye contact with Sam....
Meta responds to concerns about Israel-Hamas war misinformation, saying the company formed an operations center, removed 795K+ posts, and more
I wouldn't call it censorship, it's always an algorithm which controls the content you see on IG and others. But since algorithms something like the secret recipe of Coke, nobody get it if someone pu...
Filing: the US NLRB alleges that X illegally fired an employee in November 2022 in retaliation for her posts challenging the company's RTO policy
Elon Musk's X Corp. illegally fired an employee in retaliation for her internet posts challenging its return-to-office policy …
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
Tether Appoints CTO Paolo Ardoino as CEO Helen Partz / Cointelegraph : Tether stablecoin firm appoints CTO Paolo Ardoino as CEO Chayanika Deka / CryptoPotato : Paolo Ardoino Takes the Helm as CEO at T...
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) …
A look at TSMC's Open Innovation Platform, which debuted in 2008 and now involves tens of companies that help TSMC's clients build better chips more efficiently
This year TSMC is commemorating 15 years of its Open Innovation Platform, a multi-faceted program that brings together the foundry's suppliers …
A look at the efforts of companies and governments to build their own satellite networks that can deliver internet connectivity anywhere on Earth
Elon Musk's Starlink may soon face new competition from satellite companies offering internet service, available from anywhere on Earth where you can see the sky
How Influencers played a key role in boosting the popularity of Riot Game's Valorant among Gen Z gamers; Riot says 70% of Valorant players are Generation Z
Valorant was never a sure thing, until it was. … Rachell Hofstetter, known to fans as Valkyrae, yells like a banshee as she dodges gunfire in the video game.
How Microsoft placated EU and UK regulators via private deals with its rivals, won a US union's support, and beat the FTC in court to close the Activision deal
Canon begins selling nanoimprint chip machines, which impress circuit patterns onto wafers without photolithography, likely avoiding trade curbs, to rival ASML
Bloomberg :
Google vows to defend users of generative AI tools in Google Cloud and Workspace from copyright claims; Microsoft, Adobe, and others have made similar pledges
Blake Brittain / Reuters :
A California judge allows a group of lawsuits against Meta and others alleging social media is addictive for children to proceed based on a negligence claim
- California state judge allows negligence claim to proceed — Judge dismisses seven other claims filed by kids and parents
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
Brian Heater / TechCrunch :
After Adobe announced its $20B Figma acquisition in September 2022, the deal has stalled due to regulatory challenges and Adobe has shifted its attention to AI
Brody Ford / Bloomberg : X: @sarthakgh , @auchenberg , and @sperand_io X: Sar Haribhakti / @sarthakgh : “Adobe's focus at its annual conference...was on new generative artificial intelligence feature...
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