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Oct 2023
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Sarah Cardell Talks Microsoft - Activisi...

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Britain's Competition and Markets Authority CEO Sarah Cardell discusses the details behind the approval of Microsoft's $69 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard. Cardell has been speaking to Bloomberg's Stephen Carroll and Yuan Potts on Bloomberg Radio.

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