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Brexit blocks Microsoft’s $67 Billion Activision Blizzard merger

UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) is stopping a deal worth almost $70 billion by Microsoft to acquire Activision Blizzard.  blocked in Britain, This deal would power Azure and Xbox dominance in cloud gaming. Sony had concerns trusting the competition with suspicions that Windows would tamper and sabotage games like Call Of Duty on other consoles. Fans had started work on filing lawsuits to stop the merger.

The effect of publishers merging proves affects different  age groups and the intervention of business authorities proves a reminder that digital games are not just children’s toys. Last year November 2022 the world’s attention to US Court case filing Penguin Books getting blocked from the $2 billion deal to merge with rival publisher Simon & Schuster. By then $2.2 billion too little as Penguin Publishers had already taken the largest chunk of the literature industry including bookstores and associations. Microsoft president Brad Smith will try to overturn this ruling outside Brexit but isn’t it surprising how US Courts busted Penguin without noticing Windows, despite public outcry.

Microsoft’s $67 billion merger to acquire Activision Blizzard has been blocked

| Source: Microsoft

While UK Courts saw nothing wrong with Penguin doing these mergers on paperbacks, only to notice Windows Blizzard problems.The CMA blocks almost 70% everyone successfully when there’s cause of concern. Brad Smith spoke to the BBC saying the UK regulator’s decision the “darkest day” for Microsoft in its four decades of working in Britain. He said “the European Union is a more attractive place to start a business” than the UK. Interesting to see how Microsoft can keep this deal alive. And the company keeps Activision users decreasing, not sure if it’s because of tough competition or rumours of the Windows trade licence. 

Dungeons & Dragons fans logged off to call out; Hasbro, D&D Beyond, and WoTC for what they called a few changes with restrictions. Changes that would affect third-party intellectual property. A boycott to D&D compared to the boycott from Windows who lately laying off thousands of staff, or Activision Blizzard recently forced to settle on paying $35 million for sexual misconduct harassment work complaint cases.

Activision x Microsoft | Source: Deadline

With almost 50 famous games, private cloud stores for accounting, the users being abused in this case, a number which Microsoft called miscalculated to argue this deal, statistics or facts concern for users, an error by the CMA. CMA sort of agreed to overlook those competing with Window stores, Azure, if third-party data is at stake and upon overlooking users of Call Of Duty, Windows services being limited to rival users still the biggest concern to winds up this failure to merge. The impact this deal would have on competition gaming consoles like Sony, Nintendo or Google and Open Source devices. So the subscribers of competing services for now rest protected by the CMA decision.It will take more to change the ruling.

https://upbeatradio.net/v3/News.Article?article=6541

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Lionel Messi leaving Paris St-Germain

Lionel Messi has won the most auspicious awards in soccer, not all, I mean he never won the Serie A, Bundesliga or English Premier League football trophies. He won the World Cup and, mention the number of Champion League trophies at Barcelona until 2015. Between 2000 and 2015, he best the biggest teams in Europe, none were able to win as many UCL cups as Messi at Barca. Highlights of his decision to be loyal and spend most of his career playing at Camp Nou. The Spanish club's financial problems would eventually lead transfer decisions, and his transfer to Paris St-Germain in 2021, only to win the Ligue 1 title. His time in Paris maybe at it’s end, before his 2 year contract ends.

Lionel Messi | Source: Skynews

The financial decisions made by PSG to focus on developing young players on a lowered budget. Some reasons his father expressed as unconvincing to winning another UCL trophy. In transfer news recently following the club suspending their star Messi when he decided to visit Saudi Arabia, without the club’s permission.

When Messi won the World Cup in Qatar | Source: Goal

Expect Messi to join another team and PSG to continue missing out on opportunities to win a UCL trophy, skepticism and optimism depending on perspective outcomes. After the Saudi Arabia visit, Messi is rumored to have choices, a £320m-per-year Saudi government deal, more money than his most renowned nemesis, Christiano Ronaldo gets from Al Nassr. Speculations he might join Manchester City, finally playing in England, to be reunited him with Pep Guardiola, Or we could see Messi join Inter Miami in Major League Soccer. There’s not much Messi has not achieved in football, he can do whatever he wants now.

https://upbeatradio.net/v3/News.Article?article=6540

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"In the case of the golden mummy, were able to see that the brain was extracted through the nose, the organs were removed from an incision in the lower abdomen, and that there were, you know, cavities that were filled with resin," she says.

"So it gives us a very good overview of how the mummification process was done internally, but also the layers that were done externally as well in terms of the bandaging. So these give us a very strong sort of overview as to how the Egyptians did things themselves for the mummification step by step."

The 2,300-year-old mummy was found in a Late Ptolemaic cemetery in Southern Egypt.  During that time, the northern city of Alexandria was the capital. Ancient Egypt people from the south, like the "Golden boy" mummy, could afford luxurious embalming and burial.

"The information I found by the CT scan in total safe way showed us the very rich form of mummification and treatment that ancient Egyptians gave to their children, this would give us an information about the value of children for ancient Egyptians," Saleem said.                              

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Black Snow reminded me of Cleverman

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The law's impacts

This decision proved to be a watershed. The effects of the 1971 anti-drug law were immediately evident, falling disproportionately on black South Africans. Cannabis accounted for well over 95% of drug-related arrests and convictions across all "race" groups.

In a 1972 assessment by the Natal Provincial Supreme Court - in the case State v Shangase and Others - judges showed how prison terms of two to ten years were being imposed even for the petty possession of single cannabis "zol" (joint).

The "rehabilitation centres" part of the 1971 law applied only to white offenders since - as Suzman had pointed out - the segregationist state did not provide drug treatment programmes for black people. But, even for convicted white users, sentences involving treatment applied in less than 1% of cases.

Paradoxically, but unsurprisingly, illegal cannabis cultivation increased within the segregated spaces of apartheid.

Read more: A new approach to criminalisation could end Cape Town's drug wars

An illegal crop in high demand was profitable to grow, and even more so to trade. Helicopters spraying herbicides and multiple checkpoints raised the stakes of drug politics for all parties.

The laws's embedded racism meant that as tough drug suppression continued after apartheid ended, its racist effects also continued.

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