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Dina Bass
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Dina Bass
@dinabass
Bloomberg News Tech Reporter covering AI Infrastructure, mom, Liverpool FC Fan. Opinions are my own...or my evil twin's.
Seattle
Joined June 2007
- Microsoft is nearing a deal to buy Activision Blizzard, sources tell us. Deal value is nearly $70 billion. Story on @TheTerminal
- Further from Phil Spencer on the exclusivity issue: “I’ll just say to players out there who are playing Activision Blizzard games on Sony’s platform: It’s not our intent to pull communities away from that platform and we remained committed to that.”
- How short are Seattle hospitals of protective equipment? Workers at Providence are hitting up craft stores and Home Depot for raw materials and assembled 500 homemade masks as patients keep streaming in and supplies run out. bloomberg.com/news/articles/… by @ben_elgin @jtozz
- Replying to @dinabassOfficial now. Microsoft is buying Activison for $68.7 billion
- I'm really losing track of which hackers have my personal data between Anthem, Equifax, Yahoo, Uber etc. Also are any of them willing to provide calendar services or something, like remind me of my Mom's birthday and the like?
- Microsoft and Activision have received a request from the FTC for add'l info about their deal, according to an Activision filing. That request opens an in-depth antitrust review of the acquisition. (to be clear, this was expected -- it's a huge deal).
- Timnit Gebru is marking the 1 year anniversary of her dismissal from Google by announcing her new AI research institute -- a global non-profit meant to examine AI harms and center communities impacted by them. We spoke with @timnitGebru about DAIR:
- 20 years ago today, Bill Gates and The Rock traded wrestling catchphrases over a newly unveiled Xbox at CES. I spoke to two dozen key Xbox figures for an oral history on how Microsoft became an unlikely console powerhouse:
- Microsoft President Brad Smith says the company offered the FTC that it would sign a legally binding consent decree saying it would make CoD available to rivals for a decade. It didn't help. Story to come.
- Xbox's Phil Spencer is pleased with progress towards regulatory approval of the Activision deal, wants more cross-console play and fewer exclusives. Read a preview of his interview with @emilychangtv & then catch the interview later today on Emily's show:
- Xbox supply chain/sales/share watchers: Microsoft CFO Amy Hood tells me Xbox hardware sales rose 14% (or 16% excluding currency impact) in the March quarter. That's better than the company expected as more consoles were available. She also said Xbox is gaining share.
- Microsoft signs 10-year Call of Duty deal with Nintendo on the eve of its meeting with the US FTC to make its final case in favor of the Activision deal: bloomberg.com/news/articles/… by @vladsavov
