Antitrust, the process: America’s competition cops
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The Economist
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🗓️ 29 June 2023
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
This week’s court battle involving Microsoft and Activision, giants of tech and gaming, reflects a sea change under way in America’s trustbusting machinery; it may not go as far as the top competition cop might like. A boom in China’s post-pandemic economy now seems to be sputtering (11:29). And a paean to the Tayto crisp—cheese-and-onion flavour, naturally (18:29).
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| 0:38.9 | Jason Palmer. Every weekday we provide a fresh perspective on the events |
| 0:43.1 | shaping your world. China was one of the last countries to abandon |
| 0:50.2 | pandemic lockdowns. And investors and analysts alike were waiting anxiously for |
| 0:55.4 | its recovery. The comeback came but things aren't going quite the way that |
| 1:00.1 | many expected. And what's the best possible fate for a potato? Our correspondent |
| 1:07.6 | argues passionately that the answer is a crisp, a potato chip, and not just any |
| 1:12.5 | crisp, a particular flavor of a particular Irish brand. |
| 1:25.4 | First up though. |
| 1:32.4 | A pitched battle is playing out in an American court this week. This isn't the |
| 1:42.4 | sound of it. That's the trailer for a wildly popular video game named Call of Duty. |
| 1:51.7 | Perhaps the shoot-em-up game of all time. It's raked in billions of dollars for |
| 1:57.2 | its maker Activision Blizzard, a gaming galaïth that Microsoft, the tech |
| 2:01.6 | giant behind Xbox consoles, is keen to buy. So why are the two firms in court? |
| 2:07.1 | The FTC has asked for a temporary restraining order to block the $69 billion |
| 2:13.3 | merger. The battle between the FTC and Microsoft rolls on. So this really could |
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