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Business Matters: Microsoft completes biggest deal in gaming history

Microsoft completes biggest deal in gaming history

14/10/2023 GMT

BBC World Service - Business Matters, Microsoft completes biggest deal in gaming history

Microsoft completes $69bn takeover of Call of Duty-maker Activision Blizzard

It comes after the UK approved the $69bn takeover of Activision Blizzard, which makes Call of Duty.

Microsoft has completed its $69bn takeover of Call of Duty-maker Activision Blizzard in the gaming industry's biggest ever deal.

Also we will dear about the US healthcare company Kaiser Permanente and its workers have reached a tentative deal, following the largest medical strike on record. More than 75,000 health workers in five US states and Washington DC went on a 72-hour strike for better wages and improved staffing last week.

Vivienne Nunis discusses this and more of the business news from around with Takara Small, Toronto-based technology journalist, and Simon Littlewood, President of ACG Global Growth Delivered based in Singapore. 

(Picture: Microsoft acquires Activision Blizzard. The European Union approved Microsoft's acquisition of Activision Blizzard. Photo credit: CFOTO/Future Publishing via Getty Images)

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