if you look at the UK and think about the post-Brexit UK, it’s probably the first country where you’re seeing a recession, like the real severe consequences of a recession. If you’re the UK, and you have an incredibly educated workforce, you have a lot of technical talent, places like Cambridge, where the best AI and machine learning is, I would think you would want to embrace a transaction like this, where you’re gonna see job creation and opportunity, and it isn’t really at all whether it’s Sony’s or Microsoft’s platform, it’s really about the future of technology and you know they’ve said now for the last year…that would like to be the Silicon Valley of Europe, or of the continent, and if deals like this can’t get through, they’re not going to be Silicon Valley, they’ll be Death Valley.
TL;DR: If the EU deny this merge, Microsoft will just give the middle finger to the EU and pull their business out of Europe
Meh Kotick has been “death valley” to ATVI’s stock in general. But you would think the UK politicians and royals would love him, they are all members of the Epstein island adventure club afterall.
Nope, it is more like EU regulators raised concern about the trade that occurred days before the merger was announced publicly to which Microsoft (probably) agrees but Bobby throws whole lot of smoke screens.
