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microsoft activision deal uk approval: Microsoft bid for ‘Call of Duty’ maker Activision Blizzard nears UK approval

The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) on Friday said it was close to finally approving Microsoft‘s $69-billion bid for “Call of Duty” video game maker Activision Blizzard after the deal addressed regulatory concerns. CMA said in a statement that “the restructured deal makes important changes” and “opens the door to the deal being cleared”.

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Deportes

Why don’t NFL quarterbacks call plays? Used to be part of job

Chicago quarterback Justin Fields complains quietly: too much information in his ear. The crowd in Pittsburgh complains loudly: get rid of Steelers offensive coordinator Matt Canada. Through the first two weeks of the NFL season, a lot of confounded teams are groping for ways to move the football. Cincinnati, two years removed from the Super

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Global

‘Smoke and mirrors’: Call for further reduction burns

Back to the Bush Founder Armen Arakelian says hazard reduction burns are “not being done” and the current ones are “just for show”. Mr Arakelian sat down with Sky News host Peta Credlin to discuss how the burns are a way of showing the public they are being done but criticises them as “micro burns”.

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Noticias de dinero

We shouldn’t call ‘peak China’ just yet

Receive free Chinese economy updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Chinese economy news every morning. What is the economic future of China? Will it become a high-income economy and so, inevitably, the largest in the world for an extended period, or will it be stuck in the “middle

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Deportes

Will Boks call on Dweba or surprise with Pollard?

The Boks’ failure to blood a young hooker over the last few years has now left the World Cup squad with a big decision to make. The Springboks are set to pay a steep price after it was confirmed on Thursday that hooker Malcolm Marx has been ruled out of the rest of the Rugby

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