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British competition regulators have opened a new investigation into Microsoft’s revamped bid to buy video game maker Activision Blizzard

Activision Blizzard proposes to sell its streaming rights to Ubisoft Entertainment in a fresh attempt to win approval from UK Competition and Markets Authority for its $69 billion sale to Microsoft. The shares of Activision were trading 1.1% higher, while Microsoft was up 0.7% before noon in New York. Shares of Ubisoft listed in Paris closed 8.8% higher.

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Investing.com -- Chip designer Arm announces plans for a much-anticipated initial public offering, although the Softbank-owned group stops short of specifying its valuation. Elsewhere, tech stocks remain resilient in the face of surging bond yields as excitement for Nvidia's latest quarterly earnings report grows, while Microsoft restructures its mega-merger with Activision Blizzard to appease U.K. regulators.

Microsoft has submitted a new proposal to Britain's competition regulator for the acquisition of video gaming giant Activision Blizzard, the watchdog said Tuesday, after a previous version of the deal was blocked. Xbox-owner Microsoft launched a bid for Activision Blizzard early last year, seeking to establish the world's third biggest gaming firm by revenue after China's Tencent and Japan's PlayStation maker Sony. But the $69 billion deal for the purchase of the owner of game titles including Call of Duty, World of Warcraft and Candy Crush has faced significant scrutiny by regulators. Britain's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) said it has «opened a new phase 1 investigation into a new, restructured deal by Microsoft to buy Activision». It added that the new deal follows confirmation by the regulator that «the original deal would be blocked to protect innovation and choice in cloud gaming». Under the new proposed deal «Microsoft will not acquire cloud rights for existing Activision PC and console games, or for new games released by Activision during the next 15 years (this excludes the European Economic Area),» the CMA said. Instead these rights will be divested to French game developer Ubisoft Entertainment prior to Microsoft's acquisition of Activision, according to the CMA. Ubisoft will in particular have «the ability to supply Activision's gaming content to all cloud gaming service providers (including to Microsoft itself)». «This will allow gamers to access Activision's games in different ways, including through cloud-based multigame subscription services,» Sarah Cardell, the CMA chief executive, said. — Confidence — Cardell added that «this is not a green light». «Our goal has not changed — any future

Investing.com -- Shares in Earthstone Energy (NYSE:ESTE) surged on Monday after the oil and gas group agreed to be acquired by peer Permian Resources (NYSE:PR) in a deal worth approximately $4.5 billion.

Tata Power Renewable Energy Limited (TPREL), a subsidiary of Tata Power, signed a power purchase agreement (PPA) for 9MWp on-campus solar plant with Tata Motors’ Pantnagar plant in Uttarakhand, the company said in a statement. This solar plant will be the largest on-campus solar facility in the state, it added. The solar installation includes an effective approach towards Tata Motors sustainable future goals, with an estimated carbon emission reduction of 25 tonnes of CO2/kWp in Uttarakhand.

AGL Energy has struck a deal with the Victorian government to keep the Loy Yang A coal-fired power station running until 2035, despite pressure from its biggest shareholder, software billionaire Mike Cannon-Brookes, to shut the huge generator earlier and align with the Paris climate accord.

MUMBAI : Three years after Valli Arunachalam, a New York-based nuclear scientist and daughter of former Murugappa Group chairman M.V. Murugappan, levelled gender discrimination allegations against the boards of the group’s firms, the estranged family members reached an out-of-court settlement, the terms of which remained undisclosed.

risk exposure also increases. Natural disasters can cause massive damage to assets and investments in vulnerable areas. According to reinsurance company Munich Re, the total uninsured losses due to disasters in 2022 are estimated to be around $270 billion while insured losses are projected to be approximately $120 billion.

Karnataka will register its strong views with the Centre about the injustice caused by the previous finance commissions while seeking a fair deal ahead of the constitution of the 16th Finance Commission, Chief Minister Siddaramaiah has said. The Congress leader, after taking over as chief minister in May this year, has often complained that the finance commissions have handed a raw deal to his state in devolution of funds. “Before the 16th Finance Commission is constituted, we will urge the Centre to rectify the injustice meted to Karnataka in the 15th Finance Commission.

Investing.com — Here is your Pro Recap of 5 head-turning deal dispatches you may have missed last week: ArcelorMittal considers acquiring US Steel, Intel and Tower Semiconductor terminate the acquisition, Arena Group announces strategic expansion with Bridge Media Networks, and merger deals at Energy Transfer and Crestwood Equity, and Ball’s aerospace business and BAE Systems.

Hungary has struck a deal with Serbia that could bring increased shipments of Russian natural gas through the Balkan country if Ukraine ends a gas transit agreement with Moscow

CAMP DAVID, Maryland (Reuters) — U.S. President Joe Biden will sign a strategic partnership agreement with Vietnam during a state visit to the Southeast Asian country in mid-September, Politico reported on Friday, citing three people with knowledge of the deal's planning.

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maritime domain. It signifies India’s increasing interest in building capacity and partnerships with Indo-Pacific militaries.

Supreme Court asserted on Friday action must be taken against all those making hate speeches «this side or that side». A bench of Justices Sanjiv Khanna and SVN Bhatti made the remark during a brief hearing on a batch of petitions seeking directions to curb hate speeches across states, including a plea for action against Hindu outfits calling for social and economic boycott of Muslims following the recent communal violence in Nuh-Gurugram in the Delhi-NCR region. A lawyer claimed before the bench that the Indian Union Muslim League (IUML), a political party in Kerala, organised a rally in the state in July where slogans like «death to Hindus» were raised.

US aluminium group Alcoa has signed up to a new long-term electricity supply contract with AGL Energy for its Portland smelter in Victoria, meaning the energy-intensive plant will be at least partly reliant on coal-fired power at least through to the middle of next decade.

startups to a five-year low in the first half of 2023, according to the Israeli nonprofit Start-Up Nation Central. The global market for investing in startups has been similarly brutal, with valuations for once-hot startups cratering. “Deployment has been slower than expected because we maintained high standards," Kushner said.

GMM Pfaudler share price tanked 11% in morning today on reports of a block deal, but recovered soon after. GMM Pfaudler shares opened at an intraday low of ₹1,350 as compared to the previous close of ₹1,523.

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