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...Commission chair suffered a setback in her ambitions to beef up antitrust enforcement for the Big Tech era when a California judge rejected her attempt to halt Microsoft’s $75bn purchase of Activision Blizzard...
...We decided to hunker down for the night and wait for the blizzard to blow itself out. As the air inside began to heat up so lumps of ice would periodically drop down from the roof....
...First published 30 years ago, Scott McCloud’s Understanding Comics is the definitive comic book about comic books....
...(Republican Senator Tim Scott and groups backing him spent millions on ads, at one point topping this leaderboard, but Scott dropped out of the race in mid-November having never polled more than a few points...
...The last weekend of campaigning in Iowa was disrupted by a blizzard that prompted all of the candidates to cancel or delay planned campaign stops....
...A federal judge denied the US competition regulator’s attempt to block Microsoft’s $75bn purchase of Activision Blizzard, ruling that the Federal Trade Commission had failed to show the deal would harm competition...
...Scott Sheffield is retiring as head of shale giant Pioneer Natural Resources. Allen & Overy has promoted 36 new partners....
...Judge Jacqueline Scott Corley ruled on Tuesday that the FTC had failed to prove that the megamerger would harm competition in the video game industry....
...Microsoft has moved closer to securing its $75bn purchase of Activision Blizzard after a US federal judge rejected the Federal Trade Commission’s attempt to halt the deal and the UK’s competition watchdog...
...acquisition of video games maker Activision Blizzard....
...As always, email me your thoughts at scott.chipolina@ft.com....
...Judge Jacqueline Scott Corley repeatedly prodded an expert witness called by the FTC over his analysis of the deal and at one point cut off the agency’s lawyer during questioning....
...Former Joele Frank public relations executives including Scott Bisang, Jim Golden and Jude Gorman and former Bloomberg reporter Ed Hammond have launched communications advisory firm Collected Strategies....
...Interstate 80 became a blinding cloud of snow, a low-slung blizzard of vicious gusts and stranded semis; the highway closed to all traffic shortly thereafter, as highways here often do....
...“Jonathan Kanter at DoJ and Lina Khan at the FTC — they’re just anti-deal and in a sense they’re anti-the law,” said Paul Weiss’s Scott Barshay, one of the most prolific dealmakers of his generation, at...
...Activision Blizzard has hired legal heavyweight Lord David Pannick KC to lead its fight against the UK competition regulator’s decision to block its $75bn deal with Microsoft....
...That winter, Windhorst strode past a blizzard of camera flashes to face justice....
...Scott Fitzgerald. By that standard, Ryan Mollett, another alumnus of Fitzgerald’s alma mater Princeton, is thriving....
...But, just as an army of dealmakers chips away at its massive Activision Blizzard acquisition, that’s beginning to change....
...So you had Travis Scott doing his concert in Fortnite, which had millions, millions of views and participants. He made millions of dollars. And that was an experiment, but it was a successful one....
...At the blowier end of the budgetary blizzard, the best brands to visit are Fusalp and Moncler Grenoble....
...Our man, Robert Scott, on the other hand, believed in the “gentlemanly art of man-hauling” and was remembered because his end was so British, tragic and beautiful....
...They have endured hurricanes, blizzards, the Aids crisis and labour strife. After the September 11 2001 terror attacks Broadway closed on a Tuesday and reopened on Thursday....
...The two largest US-based games companies, Activision Blizzard and Electronic Arts, use their own proprietary software, which allows for greater differentiation and control....
...On the return leg, they were caught in the encroaching winter blizzard, falling a few miles short of safety and perishing in the Antarctic snow and dark....
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