The Vergecast

Microsoft to acquire Activision for $68.7 billion / Google is building an AR headset / The 5G battle between the FAA, AT&T, Verizon, and airlines

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Verge editor-in-chief Nilay Patel talks with games reporter Ash Parrish and senior reporter Alex Heath about Microsoft acquiring Activision Blizzard for $68.7 billion and Google building a new AR headset.

Policy editor Russell Brandom joins the show to discuss the battle between the FAA, AT&T, Verizon, and airlines over 5G and the antitrust bills in Congress this week.

Further reading:

  • The US’s free COVID test website has more visitors than all other .gov sites combined
  • Microsoft to acquire Activision Blizzard for $68.7 billion
  • Read Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick’s email to employees about the Microsoft acquisition
  • Read Microsoft Gaming CEO’s email to staff about the Activision Blizzard acquisition
  • Microsoft’s Xbox Game Pass service grows to 25 million subscribers
  • Microsoft’s Activision acquisition would instantly make it a force in mobile gaming
  • A guide to Microsoft’s Xbox game studios empire
  • Is Microsoft building a gaming monopoly?
  • Sony expects Microsoft to ‘continue to ensure’ Activision games stay multiplatform
  • Google is building an AR headset
  • AT&T and Verizon are limiting C-band 5G expansion around airports even more
  • AT&T begins 5G C-band rollout in limited number of metro areas
  • Verizon’s faster C-band 5G is live and off to a promising start
  • Apple and Google split with startups over antitrust bill
  • Tim Cook and Sundar Pichai are personally lobbying senators against antitrust legislation: report
  • Lawmakers approve Big Tech antitrust overhaul, but with strings attached
  • US competition enforcers launch overhaul of merger approval process
  • Democrats unveil bill to ban online ‘surveillance advertising’

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