Hello! This is The Vergecast, the flagship podcast of The Verge... and your life. Every Friday, Nilay Patel and Dieter Bohn make sense of the week's tech news with help from our wide-ranging staff. Join us every week for a fun, deeply nerdy, often off-the-rails conversation about what's happening now (and next) in technology and gadgets.
Microsoft to acquire Activision for $68.7 billion / Google is building an AR headset / The 5G battle between the FAA, AT&T, Verizon, and airlines
Verge editor-in-chief Nilay Patel talks with games reporter Ash Parrish and senior reporter Alex Heath about Microsoft acquiring Activision Blizzard for $68.7 billion and Google building a new AR headset.
Policy editor Russell Brandom joins the show to discuss the battle between the FAA, AT&T, Verizon, and airlines over 5G and the antitrust bills in Congress this week.
Further reading:
- The US’s free COVID test website has more visitors than all other .gov sites combined
- Microsoft to acquire Activision Blizzard for $68.7 billion
- Read Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick’s email to employees about the Microsoft acquisition
- Read Microsoft Gaming CEO’s email to staff about the Activision Blizzard acquisition
- Microsoft’s Xbox Game Pass service grows to 25 million subscribers
- Microsoft’s Activision acquisition would instantly make it a force in mobile gaming
- A guide to Microsoft’s Xbox game studios empire
- Is Microsoft building a gaming monopoly?
- Sony expects Microsoft to ‘continue to ensure’ Activision games stay multiplatform
- Google is building an AR headset
- AT&T and Verizon are limiting C-band 5G expansion around airports even more
- AT&T begins 5G C-band rollout in limited number of metro areas
- Verizon’s faster C-band 5G is live and off to a promising start
- Apple and Google split with startups over antitrust bill
- Tim Cook and Sundar Pichai are personally lobbying senators against antitrust legislation: report
- Lawmakers approve Big Tech antitrust overhaul, but with strings attached
- US competition enforcers launch overhaul of merger approval process
- Democrats unveil bill to ban online ‘surveillance advertising’
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