Washington CNN — On Thursday, the Federal Trade Commission filed a lawsuit to block Microsoft’s $69 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard, challenging one of the biggest tech acquisitions in history. The administrative complaint filed Thursday by the FTC alleges that the blockbuster deal, which would make Microsoft the world’s third-largest video game publisher, would give …
Comment this story Comment The Federal Trade Commission on Thursday filed a lawsuit to block Microsoft’s $69 billion acquisition of video game maker Activision Blizzard, saying the massive deal would allow the Washington-based tech giant to remove its gaming competitors. The lawsuit represents the FTC’s largest effort to curb consolidation in the tech industry since …
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Illustration: Shoshana Gordon/Axios Federal regulators will push to block Meta from acquiring a virtual reality studio starting Thursday in a San Jose courtroom. Why is this important: The lawsuit will mark the first high-level public test of the Federal Trade Commission’s efforts under Chairman Lina Khan to expand the principles of antitrust law in ways …
TEMPE, Ariz., Nov. 30, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Wrap Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq: WRAP) (“Wrap” or the “Company”), a global leader in innovative public safety technologies and services, today announced that it has entered into a professional services and technology acquisition agreement with Lumeto, Inc. (“Lumeto” ). As part of the agreement, Lumeto will provide Wrap …
Adam Lurie believes in the power and potential of artificial intelligence, particularly its ability to revolutionize government operations. The technology manager began as a background investigator conducting security clearance investigations, spending more than a decade serving the security wings of various US federal agencies. After the first act of her career, Lurie chose to focus …
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 public domain A new study shows that the greater vulnerability of individuals of the evening chronotype (individuals with the propensity to be more productive at night or at dawn) to anxiety and related disorders may be mediated by impaired emotional learning. Chronotypes are our circadian preference profiles; that is, they refer to the …
