{"id":9801,"date":"2023-04-27T11:38:07","date_gmt":"2023-04-27T09:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/04\/27\/microsoft-says-eu-better-place-for-business-after-uk-blocks-activision-deal\/"},"modified":"2023-04-27T11:38:07","modified_gmt":"2023-04-27T09:38:07","slug":"microsoft-says-eu-better-place-for-business-after-uk-blocks-activision-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/04\/27\/microsoft-says-eu-better-place-for-business-after-uk-blocks-activision-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft says EU better place for business after UK blocks Activision deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US firm\u2019s president issues stinging attack over blocking of $69bn takeover of games developer<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft\u2019s president has said the EU is a better place to start a business than Britain post-Brexit, as he launched a stinging attack on the UK\u2019s decision to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2023\/apr\/26\/microsoft-bid-for-activision-blizzard-blocked-by-uk-competition-regulator\">block a $69bn (\u00a355bn) deal to takeover Activision Blizzard<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Brad Smith said <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2023\/apr\/26\/microsoft-bid-for-activision-blizzard-blocked-by-uk-competition-regulator\">people around the world were \u201cshocked\u201d<\/a> by the Competition and Markets Authority\u2019s (CMA) ruling against the takeover of the Call of Duty developer, and suggestedthe decision would cause businesses to think twice about investing and growing their businesses in the UK.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2023\/apr\/27\/microsoft-says-eu-better-place-for-post-brexit-business-after-uk-blocks-activision-deal\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/cbac7c850b95518983b7383e050a1722048c6208\/0_16_4000_2401\/master\/4000.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=4988ec5b6ba02bca5c4ba9292ae13049\" title=\"Microsoft says EU better place for business after UK blocks Activision deal\" \/>US firm\u2019s president issues stinging attack over blocking of $69bn takeover of games developer<br \/>\nMicrosoft\u2019s president has said the EU is a better place to start a business than Britain post-Brexit, as he launched a stinging attack on the UK\u2019s decision to block a $69bn (\u00a355bn) deal to takeover Activision Blizzard.<br \/>\nBrad Smith said people around the world were \u201cshocked\u201d by the Competition and Markets Authority\u2019s (CMA) ruling against the takeover of the Call of Duty developer, and suggestedthe decision would cause businesses to think twice about investing and growing their businesses in the UK. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US firm\u2019s president issues stinging attack over blocking of $69bn takeover of games developer Microsoft\u2019s president has said the EU is a better place to start a business than Britain post-Brexit, as he launched a stinging attack on the UK\u2019s decision to block a $69bn (\u00a355bn) deal to takeover Activision Blizzard. Brad Smith said people &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/04\/27\/microsoft-says-eu-better-place-for-business-after-uk-blocks-activision-deal\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Microsoft says EU better place for business after UK blocks Activision deal<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":9802,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9801"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9801\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}