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CNBC

There were lots of reasons Microsoft wanted to buy Activision Blizzard. · Activision has a multitude of popular game franchises — Call of Duty, World of Warcraft, and Candy Crush Saga — to add to its Xbox gaming division.

Vox

Microsoft’s massive $69 billion acquisition of video game giant Activision Blizzard was dealt a major and possibly game-ending blow this week. The United Kingdom’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) announced on Wednesday that it has decided not …

BBC News

The planned $68.7bn (£55bn) deal would have been the gaming industry’s biggest ever takeover, and Microsoft would have taken ownership of popular games titles such as Call of Duty, Candy Crush and World of Warcraft.

The Seattle Times

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WIRED

In 1983, John Kirby convinced a judge that Donkey Kong was not a trademark infringement of Universal Pictures’ King Kong. The win helped pave the way for the company’s wild success in the video game industry. Now, it is Nintendo that doles out the legal …

Space Ref

NRO Director Chris Scolese Speaking At The 38th Space Symposium. Space Symposium. COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado – The U.S. National Reconnaissance Office is one of 18 intelligence community members, itself a …

KTRK-TV

Less than a few hours after Snapchat rolled out its My AI chatbot to all users last week, Lyndsi Lee, a mother from East Prairie, Missouri, told her 13-year-old daughter to stay away from the feature. “It’s a temporary solution until I know more about …

WRDW-TV

AUGUSTA, Ga. (WRDW/WAGT) – It’s graduation season and vacation time is just around the corner. One thing guaranteed to get a good workout is the camera on your smartphone. Smartphones are now the primary camera for most people. It’s also the primary …

TechCrunch

Today, Microsoft Designer, Microsoft’s AI-powered design tool, launched in public preview with an expanded set of features. Announced in October, Designer is a Canva-like web app that can generate designs for presentations, posters, digital postcards, …

UC Today

Slack is rolling out Slack canvas to enhance real-time collaboration between teams in Slack channels via the new information-sharing hub. Canvases will allow teams to spend more time working and less time searching for information.