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  • Mandatory CanCon contribution could prompt investment cuts, Spotify tells CRTC

    November 29, 2023 - 2:00 PM

    Audio streaming platform Spotify says that requiring it to make a contribution aimed at supporting Canadian content could force the company to cut its existing investments in order to maintain its financial viability.

  • Microsoft's bid to buy Activision Blizzard clears a key hurdle. But the $69B deal is still at risk

    May 15, 2023 - 10:34 AM

    LONDON (AP) — The European Union on Monday approved Microsoft’s $69 billion purchase of video game maker Activision Blizzard, deciding the deal won’t stifle competition for popular console titles like Call of Duty and accepting the U.S. tech company’s remedies to boost competition in cloud gaming.

  • UK blocks Microsoft-Activision gaming deal, biggest in tech

    April 26, 2023 - 12:26 PM

    LONDON (AP) — British antitrust regulators on Wednesday blocked Microsoft’s $69 billion purchase of video game maker Activision Blizzard, thwarting the biggest tech deal in history over worries that it would stifle competition for popular titles like Call of Duty in the fast-growing cloud gaming market.

  • EU's Call of Duty: Probe Microsoft-Activision Blizzard deal

    November 08, 2022 - 2:56 PM

    BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union has launched an investigation into Microsoft’s planned takeover of video game giant Activision Blizzard, fearing the $69 billion deal would distort fair competition to popular titles like Call of Duty.

  • Microsoft's Activision Blizzard deal gets global scrutiny

    September 01, 2022 - 10:57 AM

    Microsoft’s plan to buy video game giant Activision Blizzard for $68.7 billion could have major effects on the gaming industry, transforming the Xbox maker into something like a Netflix for video games by giving it control of many more popular titles.

  • Pulitzers Live Updates: Slain photographer among winners

    May 09, 2022 - 3:18 PM

    NEW YORK (AP) — A Reuters photographer who was killed while covering fighting in Afghanistan was part of a team that took home the Pulitzer for feature photography.

  • What's Canadian? Minister to modernize definition of a Canadian film and TV program

    May 03, 2022 - 1:46 PM

    OTTAWA - Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez is set to review what qualifies as a Canadian film or TV program as part of a move to modernize the country's broadcast laws.

  • What's Canadian? Regulator will define what qualifies as a Canadian film

    April 10, 2022 - 4:00 AM

    OTTAWA - Try to guess which of these movies is Canadian: Disney’s “Turning Red,” which tells the story of growing up as a Chinese-Canadian teen in Toronto and stars Ottawa-born Sandra Oh, or the Oscar-winning sci-fi epic “Dune” from Montreal director Denis Villeneuve and a team of Canadian collaborators.

  • Microsoft buys game maker Activision Blizzard for about $70B

    January 18, 2022 - 4:25 PM

    Microsoft is paying the enormous sum of nearly $70 billion for Activision Blizzard, the maker of Candy Crush and Call of Duty, a deal that would immediately make it a larger video-game company than Nintendo while raising questions about the deal’s possible anti-competitive effects.

  • ANALYSIS: China extends control with online gaming crackdown

    August 31, 2021 - 4:44 AM

    BEIJING (AP) — Hugely popular online games and celebrity culture in China are the latest targets in the ruling Communist Party’s campaign to encourage the public to fall in line with its vision for a powerful, more wholesome country.
  • iN RESPONSE: Readers have their say
    Following are emailed reader responses to stories or letters to the editor for the third week of April 2024. They have been edited slightly for readability.  Got something you want to add? Send an email to editor Marshall Jones at mjo
  • Discharge coming from the Sandher Fruit Packer plant. Fruit packers near Kelowna fined another $78,000
    A fruit packing plant in the Ellison area east of Kelowna was hit with another $78,368 in fines for discharging effluent into a failed septic field. That’s now more than $110,000 in fines since 2022 for the same issue at Sandher Fruit

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