Microsoft's Activision Takeover and UAW Strike Expansion
Bloomberg Tech
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4.4 • 70 Ratings
🗓️ 22 September 2023
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Bloomberg's Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow take a look at Microsoft poised to clear its final hurdle for its $69 billion takeover of Activision Blizzard. Plus: the UAW expands its strike against GM and Stellantis as talks progress with Ford, and Apple's iPhone 15 hits shelves around the world.
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| 0:00.0 | Join global business leaders and investors at the Bloomberg Sustainable Business Summit, returning to Singapore on July 31st. |
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| 0:28.0 | From the heart of where innovation, money and power collide in Silicon Valley and beyond, |
| 0:37.0 | this is Bloomberg Technology with Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow. I'm Caroline High and of Bloomberg's world headquarters in New York. |
| 0:57.7 | And I'm Ed Ludlow, not in San Francisco, side by side for the last time this week. |
| 1:01.6 | And this is Bloomberg technology. |
| 1:03.6 | Coming up, look, Microsoft poised to clear its final hurdle for its $69 billion takeover |
| 1:09.0 | of Activision Blizzard. |
| 1:10.1 | We'll dig in. |
| 1:11.3 | And the UAW expands its strike against GM and Salantis as talks progress |
| 1:16.1 | with Ford we'll give you those latest details. Plus iPhone 15 hits the shelves |
| 1:21.0 | around the world today we'll get the read on the state of demand for Apple's new products. |
| 1:25.6 | The UK Competition and Markets Authority |
| 1:28.2 | is essentially green-lit now, Microsoft 69 billion dollar purchase of Activision. |
| 1:34.0 | They've looked at the compromise, which is to sell cloud gaming streaming rights to |
| 1:39.1 | Ubersoft, the Paris or French-based video developer. |
| 1:43.0 | Earlier on Bloomberg Television, |
| 1:45.0 | we had the UK CMA CEO on to react to that decision. |
| 1:49.0 | Have a listen. |
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