Microsoft in the crosshairs: 許すing big tech to ride roughshod over 可能性のある 競争相手s, is a distortion to 解放する／自由な markets, says ALEX BRUMMER
会社／団体s do not grow into £2billion behemoths by 事故.
What Microsoft wants, Microsoft gets. The 仮定／引き受けること is that the tech 巨大（な）’s 支援する-channel を取り引きする Sony, main 対抗者s of its 提案するd £54billion 引き継ぎ／買収 of gaming group Activision Blizzard, will 爆破 a path through the anti-信用 反対s.
Microsoft agreed that if its 追跡 of Activision is successful, it will license its emblematic game Call Of 義務 to PlayStation console 製造者 Sony for another １０年間.
The 計算／見積り is that the cosy を取り引きする Sony will （疑いを）晴らす the way for America’s 連邦の 貿易（する） （売買）手数料，委託（する）／委員会／権限 and Britain’s 競争 and Markets 当局 (CMA) to tame their 反対s.
The （日）公正取引委員会（米）連邦取引委員会 has already been overruled by a 連邦の 裁判官 in San Francisco over its 決定／判定勝ち（する） to 封鎖する the Activision 引き継ぎ／買収.?
Peace 申し込む／申し出ing: Microsoft agreed that if its 追跡 of Activision is successful it will licence its emblematic game ‘Call of 義務’ to PlayStation console 製造者 Sony for another １０年間
It is 捜し出すing to 控訴，上告 the 法廷，裁判所 判決，裁定. The CMA was the first of the big 競争 regulators to 封鎖する the 取引，協定, but has since 告訴するd for peace.
Sony had good 推論する／理由 to 恐れる Microsoft’s 支配（する）／統制する of Activision as Call Of 義務 直接／まっすぐに 生成するs £1.2billion of income each year.?
The income would be many times higher if the value of subscriptions services and other 追加する-ons are 含むd.
（日）公正取引委員会（米）連邦取引委員会 chairman Lina 旅宿泊所 and the 長，指導者 (n)役員／(a)執行力のある of Britain’s CMA, Sarah Cardell, 最初 won 広大な／多数の／重要な 賞賛する for their 乗り気 to stand up to the might of Microsoft.?
But after the US 連邦の 法廷，裁判所 判決，裁定, 旅宿泊所, who had 支援 from the Biden 行政, has been left to 新たな展開 in the 勝利，勝つd.?
Cardell, who sloughed off （人命などを）奪う，主張するs by Microsoft’s Brad Smith that the CMA 決定／判定勝ち（する） was bad for Britain, agreed to engage with Microsoft.
No regulator or 政治家，政治屋 really wants to be on the wrong 味方する of Microsoft, which is 責任がある 職業s and 激しい 投資 in tech on both 味方するs of the 大西洋.
There are bigger 問題／発行するs at 火刑／賭ける in this 強く引っ張る-of-war. The idea that two of the major 生産者s of gaming consoles should carve up 接近 to the largest gaming creator is anti-競争の激しい.?
Open 接近 should mean just that, and 許すing Microsoft to 始める，決める the 条件 and 接近 to gaming licences is absurd. It 効果的に means that the biggest beasts could lock out other 未来 console 製造者s and stifle 革新 in the age of AI.
Paradoxically, the European （売買）手数料，委託（する）／委員会／権限, having nodded through the Activision 取引，協定, is now 追求するing Microsoft over 不公平に directing 使用者s of its Office ソフトウェア to its Teams ビデオ 会議／協議会ing app.
The 決定／判定勝ち（する） to 追求する the company follows （民事の）告訴s by another ビデオ provider, Slack (now owned by Salesforce). It would 推定では also work against the 利益／興味s of Zoom, 直面する Time, Skype et al.?
許すing big tech to enable its systems so as to ride roughshod over 可能性のある 競争相手s is a distortion to 解放する／自由な markets. Regulators need to be 警報 to Microsoft’s 可能性のある for mischief.
Green light
The short-termism of UK boards knows no bounds. The website of £8billion UK 資産 経営者／支配人 Gresham House 誇るs a history dating 支援する to 1857.?
Under the 現在の leadership team, which bought out the 会社／堅い nine years ago, Gresham has 栄えるd by 焦点（を合わせる）ing on 代案／選択肢 科学（工学）技術s such as renewable energy and 殴打／砲列 貯蔵.?
These are 正確に the 肉親，親類d of 資産s （ドイツなどの）首相／（大学の）学長 Jeremy 追跡（する） wants to 養育する as Britain becomes a tech 中心, and would fit very 井戸／弁護士席 with 労働’s green new 取引，協定.
Instead, in their 知恵, chairman Anthony Townsend and 長，指導者 (n)役員／(a)執行力のある Tony Dalwood, have chosen to throw in the towel and sell-out to US 私的な 公正，普通株主権 outfit サーチライト 資本／首都 Partners for £437million. Aviva 投資家s rightly are unhappy.
London loses another 株式市場 名簿（に載せる）／表（にあげる）ing, (n)役員／(a)執行力のあるs fill their boots and an 投資家 in green 科学（工学）技術s sells its soul.
直す／買収する，八百長をするing the 半端物s
Readers of Rory Smith’s 2022 調書をとる／予約する 推定する／予想するd Goals will recognise the value of high-tech sports analytics. It explains how football clubs such as Brighton & Hove Albion have come from nowhere to punch above their 負わせる in the 首相 League.
Sports analytics are hugely 価値のある to the 賭事ing 産業. So it makes sense for betting group Entain to spend big on US analytics 会社／堅い Angstrom Sports for £122million. It is 捜し出すing to embrace the US market through its BetMGM 共同の 投機・賭ける.
The 知能 gathered will be 特に 価値のある in the market for in-play bets and parlay (where the 危険 is spread by making two separate wagers.) All good for Entain, but, one 嫌疑者，容疑者／疑うs, いっそう少なく advantageous to the punter.
