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A merger with Activision Blizzard would beget Microsoft the realm’s third-excellent videogame maker, giving it adjust of smartly-liked franchises esteem Call of Duty and Atomize Bandicoot.
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It modified into once a wild week in tech, with Netflixmissing earnings, Peloton Interactiveteetering, and the Nasdaq Composite coming into correction territory. But those events overshadowed the week’s foremost tech news: Microsoft’s Tuesday announcement that it had agreed to raise Activision Blizzard in an all-money deal valued at nearly $69 billion. It would supplant Dell’s $67 billion acquisition of EMC in 2016 as the excellent technology deal in history. If it happens.
The transaction, which has frequent ramifications for the videogame…
