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Microsoft’s agreement to pay almost $69 billion for Activision Blizzard marks the highest price ever paid by a U.S. tech company in an acquisition.

A controversy over misconduct at Activision Blizzard made the publisher more affordable. It could help Microsoft win more game subscribers, an investor said.

Apple has drawn scrutiny from regulators in the past few years over its control of the App Store, which is the only way to install software on an iPhone

The private label industry was a $159 billion market in 2020 and has attracted the likes of traditional and e-commerce retailers like Target and Amazon.

Italy’s antitrust watchdog slapped Amazon with a hefty $1.28 billion fine in December — but that’s only its latest salvo in a string of moves against Big Tech.

EU data protection authorities have handed out a total of $1.2 billion in fines over breaches of the bloc’s GDPR law since Jan. 28, 2021.

The major averages fell sharply Tuesday after Goldman Sachs reported disappointing earnings and as government bond yields hit Covid-era highs.

Amazon was expected to prevent Brits from using a Visa-issued credit card on its platform from Jan. 19.

CNBC sports business reporter Jabari Young experienced the Jan. 10 NBA courtside game between the Celtics and Pacers on the Oculus 2 headset.

Major retailers, including Target and Best Buy, have spoken out about organized thefts and urged Congress to make it harder for criminals to sell stolen goods.

The Athletic considered a variety of merger and alternative funding options before agreeing to sell to The New York Times.

Google has bought a colorful office space in London for $1 billion while it waits for building work on its heavily-delayed U.K. headquarters to be completed.

Despite a surge in VC investment in the U.K and Europe, according to Dealroom data, the region has yet to create a tech titan.

Stocks slid on Thursday, marking the end of a three-day rally for tech shares.

Elastic shares have fallen of late on weak earnings, and a broader sell-off of cloud names.

MLB and Apple are in talks to stream live regular-season games during the week.

“A stock market that dies by the bond market’s sword can also prosper from it,” CNBC’s Jim Cramer said Tuesday after all three major U.S. stock indexes rose.

A federal labor agency last November ordered a new union election at the Bessemer, Alabama, warehouse.

Productivity software and operating systems are lucrative for Microsoft, but a former executive said keeping them in house could hurt its growing cloud unit.

The semiconductor giants submitted a document to the U.K. regulator explaining why the deal should be permitted to go ahead.