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Alphabet Explodes 7% Higher After Beating Estimates Across The Board, 20-For-One Stock Split Heading into today''s post-market earnings juggernaut, which includes EA, SBUX, PYPL, GM, and others, the one company investors were most focused on was Google, pardon Alphabet, the third largest US company by market cap As Bloomberg writes in its preview, investors will be laser focused on progress in Alphabet’s Google Cloud segment. The internet company’s cloud-computing unit is the No. 3 player in the U.S., behind Amazon Web Services and Microsoft’s Azure. But the far bigger question is whether Alphabet would continue the trend of earnings beats set last week with Microsoft and ahead of the coming earnings from Amazon and Facebook. The answer, at least judging by the stock''s kneejerk reaction which is 3.5% higher, was a solid yes. Here are the results: EPS $30.69 vs. $22.30 y/y, beating estimates of $27.35 Revenue $75.33 billion, +32% y/y, beating the estimate of $71.89 billion Revenue ex-TAC $61.

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Microsoft wants Call of Duty. Regulators may not be so sure.

Unlike other tech giants like Apple, Google, Facebook, and Amazon, Microsoft has managed to avoid a lot of regulatory scrutiny, especially when it comes to

The US antitrust review of Microsoft Corps (MSFT.O) $68.7 billion proposed acquisition of Call of Duty maker Activision Blizzard Inc (ATVI.O) will be handled by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), Bloomberg News reported late on Monday, citing a person familiar with the matter. The FTC, instead of the Justice Department,

The Open Source Security Foundation has launched the Alpha-Omega Project to help secure the software supply chain.

Stock futures slip lower as February trading begins with caution; Bloomberg reports the FTC will probe Microsoft''s $69 billion takeover of Activision; Google Q4 earnings on deck with a focus on ad sales; Tesla petition seeking Biden acknowledgement on EV leadership grows and the New York Times buys mystery word game Wordle for a mysterious price.

In the first month of 2022, the gaming industry has completed three major acquisitions totaling $85 billion. Two weeks after Microsoft spent $68.7 billion on The post Gaming Industry Dictates Severe Rules: Sony Acquires Bungie For $3.6 Billion appeared first on Gizchina.com .

Microsoft has been extremely acquiring gaming studios to bolster its Xbox and PC gaming portfolio. It recently announced a move to acquire Activision Blizzard Inc in a multi-billion dollar deal. Apart from this, Take-Two Interactive Corp recently announced its move to acquire mobile game developer Zynga Inc. To keep up with the pace, Sony Group Corp has announced that [] Sony to acquire Bungie, could pitch Destiny series against the Call of Duty franchise

With Bungie titles such as Destiny 2 and the Halo franchise in the Sony family, the Japanese giant has responded to Microsofts war cry.

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Microsoft was most likely ready for rigorous anti-trust scrutiny around the world when it decided to purchase Activision Blizzard for $68.7 billion. The deal is the tech giant''s biggest yet, and it''s also set to become the largest all-cash acquisition ever. In the US, the proposed acquisition will be reviewed the Federal Trade Commission instead of the Justice Department, according to Bloomberg . The two agencies are in charge of investigating mergers in the country and typically decide between themselves which one will take charge of a case. FTC''s investigation will reportedly take a close look at how Microsoft''s ownership of Activision could harm rivals by limiting access to the developer''s biggest games. Activision owns hugely popular IPs, including Call of Duty , World of Warcraft and Candy Crush . It''s unclear if Microsoft has plans to release titles exclusive to Xbox and Window PCs in the future, but it''s worth noting Sony is still ahead of Microsoft in terms of gaming hardware sales and that a large chunk of Activision''s revenue comes from PlayStation gamers.

Microsoft initially bought game developers, Bungie before selling it off in 2007 while retaining intellectual property rights to the Halo franchise. Japanese video gaming giants, Sony is not holding back in its competition with Microsoft by buying the video game studio behind some of Xbox''s hit games including: Halo and Destiny. Sony Interactive Entertainment said Monday it would spend $3.6 billion to buy Bungie Inc, an independent game publisher based in Bellevue, Washington. Bungie logo Bungie makes the popular game franchise Destiny and was the original developer of Xbox-owned Halo. Microsoft previously bought Bungie in 2000, but later spun off the game studio in 2007 while retaining intellectual property rights to the Halo franchise. Sony is one of the world''s biggest video game companies known for PlayStation, but Microsoft has been ramping up its gaming ambitions as well, most recently by announcing plans to buy high-profile game publisher Activision Blizzard for a staggering $68.7 billion.