Microsoft's UK Talks and Hollywood's Actors on Strike
Bloomberg Tech
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4.4 • 70 Ratings
🗓️ 17 July 2023
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Bloomberg's Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow break down how Microsoft is clearing the final hurdle in its $69 billion takeover of Activision in the UK. Plus, a look at the sticking points in the strikes that have shut down Hollywood and the role of AI there.
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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 Heine-Hyne Bloomberg's world headquarters in New York. |
| 0:57.0 | And I'm Ed Ludlow here in San Francisco. This is Bloomberg Technology. |
| 1:02.0 | Coming up, Microsoft meets with UK regulators to try clear the final hurdle in its $69 billion takeover |
| 1:08.1 | of Activision. |
| 1:09.1 | We'll bring the latest from the productive talks. |
| 1:12.6 | Plus we'll look at the sticking points in the strikes |
| 1:15.0 | that have shut down Hollywood |
| 1:16.6 | and how AI could transform Tinteltown as we know it. |
| 1:20.0 | And from AI to VR, US aviation regulators are turning to a small Swiss tech start up |
| 1:25.8 | to rethink how helicopter pilots and others are trained using virtual reality. |
| 1:30.1 | Microsoft Activision, the situation is this right now as we speak there is a hearing at the |
| 1:37.0 | competition antitrust tribunal in the UK |
| 1:41.0 | all they are deciding is an ask from all the parties the UK |
| 1:44.8 | CMA Microsoft and Activision to stay legal proceedings so that they can find a |
| 1:50.7 | solution they can find a way of moving forward. The deal deadlines |
| 1:53.9 | to July 18th as per the original merger agreement. It's now crunch time. Does |
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