hes all over the place
Look at fifa qatar or qatar buying Man U and PSG. Same with Saudia arabia buying new castle united.The classic it's not "corruption", it just depends on who is involved in said corruption. When it's people we like we call it "the real world" but when it's not, what do we call it? Ah yes, that's right:
Qatar corruption scandal at the European Parliament - Wikipedia
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Something trivial, I'd say it was more about political pressure from downing Street because ms sure does love political pressure.
Cat happened.
Yeah if it's just divesting cloud only and MS having ownership of the IPs for them to licence ABK games I'm really not sure what's achieved. I suspect legally it's trying to remove the vertical part of the merger concern when it comes to cloud by saying we're not a cloud provider anymore, we're a publisher who isn't leading, but how they got rid of the MGS concern the CMA had before too is a mystery.
MS wont own the license of those IPs for cloud segment.
Would this shock anyone at this point, with the way this thing has went?
But lobbying isn't illegal
CMA had been signaling for over a week they were ready to renegotiate and today was theatrics so the CAT could say yeah get it done
We are gathering in the GAF parking lot at midnight.
Its too easy to just cry corruption when something happens you don't like.
Im assembling the X Chad army once this closes we will protect Phil at all costs
Every company do that
No, I had meant MS and ABK. Their current acquisition deal is about to expire.
at this stage, that deadline shouldn't be an issue when we're basically at the last hurdle and it's a run to the finish line.
Shouldn't but it'd still be interesting to hear the requested term changes.
You don't need any of this when it comes to political pressure. That much has been proven, even MS themselves went scorched earth with Brad Smith's tantrum and idle threats.
Brad Smith had a tantrum? I missed this. Mind posting it?
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Wooooow...I get his arguments but calling for the government to look into the regulator. I also think cloud was kind of weak. I thought the gov't looked at the CMA all on their own, out of their own concern. Had no idea it was prompted by Brad Smith.Furious Microsoft boss says confidence in UK 'severely shaken'
The decision marks the firm's "darkest day" in the UK, as it says the EU is a better place to start a business.Microsoft’s UK Blackmail Showcases Big Tech’s Threat to Democracies Worldwide - Microsoft’s UK Blackmail Showcases Big Tech’s Threat to Democracies Worldwide
The American Economic Liberties Project released the following statement after Microsoft CEO Brad Smith lambasted UK regulators for their decision to block Microsoft’s $69 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard, warning the decision would likely undermine Microsoft’s willingness to grow its...
Is it really so hard to accept that the CMA just had the wrong opinion?
I voted the same way but that doesn't mean I voted for this poop show to go through. I will admit, it is going to be fun to watch the 10 or so years.
Every single major regulator had issues with the cloud. Even Canada, NZ, and Australia. They had data provided to MS's end game, only one accepted their typical "fine them later" remedy (EC), even though they agreed with the CMA's concerns.
See above.
They would close at 2am this morning if they could
They can still close over the CMA, right?
Today they said they weren't going to do so.
So small market right. 1% or whatever. That's why I think blocking due to Cloud was weak.
And now Bobby is going to ask for an additional 30BThat's fine, then do it tomorrow
