Microsoft to acquire Activision for $68.7 billion / Google is building an AR headset / The 5G battle between the FAA, AT&T, Verizon, and airlines
Verge editor-in-chief Nilay Patel talks with games reporter Ash Parrish and senior reporter Alex Heath about Microsoft acquiring Activision Blizzard for $68.7 billion and Google building a new AR headset.
Policy editor Russell Brandom joins the show to discuss the battle between the FAA, AT&T, Verizon, and airlines over 5G and the antitrust bills in Congress this week.
Further reading:
- The US’s free COVID test website has more visitors than all other .gov sites combined
- Microsoft to acquire Activision Blizzard for $68.7 billion
- Read Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick’s email to employees about the Microsoft acquisition
- Read Microsoft Gaming CEO’s email to staff about the Activision Blizzard acquisition
- Microsoft’s Xbox Game Pass service grows to 25 million subscribers
- Microsoft’s Activision acquisition would instantly make it a force in mobile gaming
- A guide to Microsoft’s Xbox game studios empire
- Is Microsoft building a gaming monopoly?
- Sony expects Microsoft to ‘continue to ensure’ Activision games stay multiplatform
- Google is building an AR headset
- AT&T and Verizon are limiting C-band 5G expansion around airports even more
- AT&T begins 5G C-band rollout in limited number of metro areas
- Verizon’s faster C-band 5G is live and off to a promising start
- Apple and Google split with startups over antitrust bill
- Tim Cook and Sundar Pichai are personally lobbying senators against antitrust legislation: report
- Lawmakers approve Big Tech antitrust overhaul, but with strings attached
- US competition enforcers launch overhaul of merger approval process
- Democrats unveil bill to ban online ‘surveillance advertising’
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Verge editor-in-chief Nilay Patel talks with games reporter Ash Parrish and senior reporter Alex Heath about Microsoft acquiring Activision Blizzard for $68.7 billion and Google building a new AR headset.
Policy editor Russell Brandom joins the show to discuss the battle between the FAA, AT&T, Verizon, and airlines over 5G and the antitrust bills in Congress this week.
Further reading:
- The US’s free COVID test website has more visitors than all other .gov sites combined
- Microsoft to acquire Activision Blizzard for $68.7 billion
- Read Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick’s email to employees about the Microsoft acquisition
- Read Microsoft Gaming CEO’s email to staff about the Activision Blizzard acquisition
- Microsoft’s Xbox Game Pass service grows to 25 million subscribers
- Microsoft’s Activision acquisition would instantly make it a force in mobile gaming
- A guide to Microsoft’s Xbox game studios empire
- Is Microsoft building a gaming monopoly?
- Sony expects Microsoft to ‘continue to ensure’ Activision games stay multiplatform
- Google is building an AR headset
- AT&T and Verizon are limiting C-band 5G expansion around airports even more
- AT&T begins 5G C-band rollout in limited number of metro areas
- Verizon’s faster C-band 5G is live and off to a promising start
- Apple and Google split with startups over antitrust bill
- Tim Cook and Sundar Pichai are personally lobbying senators against antitrust legislation: report
- Lawmakers approve Big Tech antitrust overhaul, but with strings attached
- US competition enforcers launch overhaul of merger approval process
- Democrats unveil bill to ban online ‘surveillance advertising’
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