The Gaming Industry and the Telecommunications Industry

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Microsoft announced the biggest deal in its history. It's paying about 75 billion dollars for the video game developer actvision blizzard. The move will give micro soft lots of content for its x box consol so that it can continue to compete in the gaming industry. There is a lot riding on this, beyond this short term row between the aviation industry and the telecoms industry. And what goes beyond that? Now, the mess of erson and the shape of the next internet.

The car industry has turned on France’s plan to force manufacturers to attach the equivalent of a public health warning to their advertising, and US telecoms companies will delay their rollout of 5G services near airports. Plus, the FT’s Chris Nuttall, explains why Microsoft’s $75bn deal for Activision Blizzard makes sense.

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