{"id":1931758,"date":"2023-05-16T10:26:44","date_gmt":"2023-05-16T14:26:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/uks-competition-boss-we-do-not-want-a-hostile-environment-for-tech\/"},"modified":"2023-05-16T10:29:05","modified_gmt":"2023-05-16T14:29:05","slug":"uks-competition-boss-we-do-not-want-a-hostile-environment-for-tech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/uks-competition-boss-we-do-not-want-a-hostile-environment-for-tech\/","title":{"rendered":"UK competition chief opposes hostile tech environment."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fuks-competition-boss-we-do-not-want-a-hostile-environment-for-tech%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1931758&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>UK Anti-Trust Regulator Defends Decision to Block Microsoft&#8217;s Acquisition of Activision Blizzard<\/h2>\n<p>The head of Britain&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/uks-competition-boss-we-do-not-want-a-hostile-environment-for-tech\/\" title=\"UK competition chief opposes hostile tech environment.\">anti-trust regulator<\/a>, Sarah Cardell, has defended the Competition and Markets Authority&#8217;s (CMA) decision to block Microsoft&#8217;s $69 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard. The CMA had stated that the deal would hit competition in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/uk-watchdog-defends-microsoft-block-in-face-of-onslaught-from-companies\/\" title=\"UK watchdog defends Microsoft block in face of onslaught from companies\">nascent cloud gaming market<\/a>. Microsoft has said it will appeal the ruling, while its president, Brad Smith, has accused the regulator of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fact-check-image-falsely-claims-the-wife-of-pfizers-ceo-died-of-covid-19-vaccine-complications\/\" title=\"FACT CHECK: Image Falsely Claims The Wife Of Pfizer\u2019s CEO Died Of COVID-19 Vaccine Complications\">undermining confidence<\/a> in Britain as a destination for tech businesses. However, Cardell has stated that the CMA is not seeking to create a &#8220;hostile environment&#8221; for tech companies and that it had engaged widely with companies across the sector.<\/p>\n<h3>Other News:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>The Durham Report details the flimsiness of the Russia Collusion Hoax.<\/li>\n<li>Ohio Senator JD Vance is urging Republicans to strongly address the problem of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/deportations-fall-70-under-biden\/\" title=\"Deportations Fall 70% Under Biden\">illegal migrants entering<\/a> the Southern Border.<\/li>\n<li>Twitter has filed objections to Turkish court orders requesting a ban on access to some accounts and tweets.<\/li>\n<li>China&#8217;s Tencent Music Entertainment Group topped quarterly revenue estimates on Tuesday.<\/li>\n<li>The World Health Organization called for caution on Tuesday in using artificial intelligence for public healthcare.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>create a \u201csubstantial lessening of competition\u201d in the video game industry. The CMA\u2019s CEO emphasized that the decision was based on competition concerns and not an anti-tech bias.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":1931759,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[542],"tags":[5772,9503,15493,9383,14777,4989],"class_list":["post-1931758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oann","tag-chief","tag-competition","tag-environment","tag-hostile","tag-opposes","tag-tech"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1931758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1931758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1931758\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1931759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1931758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1931758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1931758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}