In a recent filing, Microsoft told the New Zealand Commerce Commission that Activision Blizzard Don’t make games a “must have”.. Something strange to say when the company plans to spend $68.7 billion to buy the gaming giant behind Call of Duty, Overwatch, Diablo and World of Warcraft. And much more.
“There is nothing unique about video games developed and published by Activision Blizzard that is ‘necessary’ for distributors of competing video games and PCs that are raising concerns about foreclosures,” Microsoft said in the document.
Trying to downplay Call of Duty is just one of the ways Microsoft has tried to placate regulators. In February, the company pledged that it would continue to make the franchise available on PlayStation hardware beyond existing agreements between Sony and Activision.
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He left his equipment on the streets in some cities.
A bike and scooter-sharing startup founded by Olympian Usain Bolt appears to have gone out of business. Bolt Mobility has offered bikes in five cities, including Portland, Burlington, Vermont and Richmond in California, among others. “We found out (from) two weeks ago that Bolt was going out of business,” said the Chittenden County, Vermont transit planner. Take Crunch. They disappeared, leaving behind equipment, emails, and missed calls.
You’ll also see them on the individual application pages.
apple Famously brags It will never violate your privacy to display ads, but it has commercial advertisement on its app store and elsewhere. The company is now expanding its business by adding a new ad slot to its homepage tab today and to individual app pages. The company says these new ad sites will comply with Apple’s privacy and transparency policies by not serving personalized ads to users under 18, never using sensitive data and avoiding over-targeting.
Whether you have a Series X, Series S, One X or One S, there is something for you.
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Microsoft’s console strategy is unique. Anyone with a nine-year-old Xbox One can access nearly the same library of games as an owner of a brand new Xbox Series X. This makes it difficult to keep drastically different menus for different consoles – at least for now. But while next-gen exclusives may be few and far between, there are plenty of gamers out there who haven’t experienced much of what Microsoft has to offer since the mid-1990s.
With that in mind, we’re approaching this list, now updated: Which games would we recommend to someone with Xbox songs today? Expect more updated guides for the best games throughout the week.
The proposed class action accuses Musk of breaching his fiduciary duty to Twitter shareholders.
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It’s not just Twitter Attempting to force Elon Musk to buy the company for $44 billion. An investor has filed a proposed class action to try to stop Musk Get out of the deal. Luigi Crespo’s lawsuit alleges breach of contract and breach of fiduciary duty to Twitter shareholders. Musk claimed last month that the company had made “false and misleading allegations”, and had misrepresented the number of bots and fake accounts on its platform. Crispo agreed with Twitter’s allegations that Musk was using false claims about bots and spam to get rid of the deal without valid legal status.
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It’s 2022 and Spotify is adding basic functionality to its iOS and Android apps: dedicated play and mute buttons on playlists and album pages. So far, clicking the button on most playlists will start playback randomly. However, this “vanilla playback feature” will only be available to Spotify Premium subscribers.
The trademark “TikTok Music” has already been filed.
ByteDance, the parent company of TikTok, has filed a trademark application with the US Patent and Trademark Office for “TikTok Music”. The service will allow users to “purchase, play, share and download music, songs, albums, and lyrics … live broadcast audio and video … edit and upload photos as cover for playlists … [and] Commentary on music, songs, and albums”.
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