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Here's where the Microsoft-Activision deal stands around the world

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PC Gamer

Brits warned of 'dark patterns' that trick you into paying more for flights

Tech experts have warned that booking companies are using tricks to pressure customers into paying more for flights by ramping up the perceived demand for specific tickets

Daily Mirror

Vodafone and Three merging would be a disaster – not least for your bills

For customers’ mobile costs to come down, we need more telecoms providers, not fewer, says Nicholas Shaxson, cofounder of the anti-monopoly Balanced Economy Project

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UK regulator approves Amazon’s £1.3bn deal to buy Roomba firm iRobot

The CMA concluded that the UK has a ‘modest’ market for robot vacuums

Evening Standard

The CMA must tell Vodafone to make hard commitments, not loose promises

The former behemoth wants to merge with Three but such a fundamental change in the UK telecoms market must come with a 5G guarantee

The Guardian - UK

Two UK networks are merging to create one 5G monster

The U.K. carriers Vodafone and Three have announced an intention to merge into one super-carrier.

iMore

EU regulator orders Google to sell part of ad-tech business

Competition commission accuses firm of favouring its own services to detriment of rivals

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Vodafone to merge with Three to create biggest UK mobile operator with 27 MILLION customers

The tie-up between Vodafone and Three could see the operator become the biggest provider in the UK with 27million customers

Daily Mirror

Vodafone and Three agree merger to form UK’s largest mobile operator

Deal to combine firms’ British telecoms networks likely to face competition scrutiny amid union calls for merger to be blocked

The Guardian - UK

Microsoft acquisition of Activision Blizzard temporarily blocked by FTC restraining order

Microsoft's purchase of Activision Blizzard is blocked by a temporary restraining order obtained by the FTC, with a court date set for June 22, 2023.

Windows Central

Which? reports Tesco to CMA over pricing of Clubcard offers

Consumer group contends that supermarket’s failure to provide unit prices could amount to ‘misleading practice’

The Guardian - UK

Watchdog rules rail infrastructure deal could leave passengers worse off

The Competition and Markets Authority’s provisional findings could lead to the merger involving Hitachi and Thales being blocked.

The Independent UK

The UK’s future Call of Duty access to be determined by Microsoft CEO’s chancellor meeting

The meeting follows the CMA's recent decision to block Microsoft's intended $69 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard

Daily Mirror

The Guardian view on outsourced children’s homes: the wrong model

Editorial: New research shows that for-profit businesses make worse carers. It’s time to admit that privatisation failed

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Microsoft Activision deal set to be appealed by Xbox in July – but it’s a tough fight

The CMA and Microsoft are set to state their case for and against the latter's Activision acquisition next month.

Manchester Evening News

Supermarkets slash diesel prices by more than 7p per litre

The average price of a litre of diesel at supermarket went from 151.02p per litre to 143.58p per litre

Birmingham Post

Asda's £611m deal to buy the Co-op's petrol station business cleared

Asda announced this week a new deal worth over £2bn to acquire the majority of EG Group's UK and Ireland operations

The Guardian - UK

UK supermarkets cut diesel prices by 7p a litre after watchdog concerns

Reduction follows CMA plans to grill executives about ‘sustained higher margins’ but RAC says retailers should go further

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Wales Online

CMA warning over 'hydrogen ready' boilers

The Government has not yet decided on the use of hydrogen

TechRadar

Microsoft’s appeal against UK government’s block on Activision Blizzard acquisition to begin in July

Microsoft has made good on its promise to appeal the UK government’s decision to block its acquisition of Activision Blizzard.

Windows Central

A CMA director, who blocked Microsoft's Xbox-Activision merger, previously worked for a Sony law firm (Update)

The UK CMA recently blocked the Microsoft merger for Activision Blizzard, which would have made Xbox more competitive in a PlayStation-dominated market. The same CMA has a senior director who previously worked for a law firm representing Sony, one of only two complainants of the deal thus far.

Windows Central

Microsoft has filed its appeal to the UK's CMA over the Activision Blizzard acquisition

Microsoft's Activision Blizzard acquisition has sailed through regulators, with the UK's regulatory body as the lone standout. Microsoft has filed its appeal.

GamesRadar

Xbox formally appeals UK block on Activision deal in a process that could take 9 months

Prepare for months of further uncertainty

The Guardian - UK

Microsoft appeals against UK watchdog’s veto of Activision Blizzard takeover

CMA says it is defending cloud gaming market, but Microsoft says moves ‘discourages tech innovation and investment’ in UK

Daily Record

Stephen Flynn tells Rishi Sunak to 'get real' as food prices continue to soar

The SNP Westminster leader asked the PM if he agreed the country was paying the price for a 'cost of greed crisis'.

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