Microsoft Gets EU Approval to Acquire Activision Blizzard

WSJ What’s News

The Wall Street Journal

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🗓️ 15 May 2023

⏱️ 18 minutes

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P.M. Edition for May 15. Microsoft’s $75 billion deal gets Europe’s go-ahead weeks after it was rejected by U.K. regulators. Plus, Shelby Holliday travels to the Philippines to check in on U.S. efforts to counter China’s militarization of the Pacific. Danny Lewis hosts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:30.0	The European Union approves Microsoft's acquisition of Activision Blizzard,
0:39.5	weeks after the UK rejected the $75 billion deal.
0:43.6	And the US is trying to counter China's expansion in the Pacific,
0:47.6	starting with the Philippines.
0:48.9	If you look at polling, you can see the Philippine people do not trust China
0:52.9	by a large margin, and public sentiment certainly started to shift the political sentiment in that way.
0:58.4	Plus, is AI making white collar workers obsolete?
1:01.3	So companies have almost been, you know, have been labor hoarding in a way.
1:04.9	But, you know, this is also just to do with the fact that technology has just shifted the way that people can work.
1:11.4	And we're just beginning to see the start of that now with AI.
1:14.9	It's Monday, May 15th.
1:16.5	I'm Danny Lewis for The Wall Street Journal, filling in for Anne Marie for Toley.
1:20.4	This is the PM edition of What's News, the top headlines and business stories that move the world today.
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