{"id":80483,"date":"2022-01-19T01:55:26","date_gmt":"2022-01-19T06:55:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=80483"},"modified":"2022-01-19T01:59:39","modified_gmt":"2022-01-19T06:59:39","slug":"microsofts-68-7-billion-deal-for-activision-once-again-shows-big-techs-dominance-over-legacy-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/01\/2022\/microsofts-68-7-billion-deal-for-activision-once-again-shows-big-techs-dominance-over-legacy-media.html","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft\u2019s $68.7 billion deal for Activision once again shows big tech\u2019s dominance over legacy media"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(CNBC) Microsoft\u2019s decision to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2022\/01\/18\/microsoft-to-buy-activision.html\">buy video game company Activision Blizzard in a $68.7 billion deal<\/a> shows big tech firms keep pushing the envelope, while legacy media companies, desperate to reposition themselves for younger audiences, sit on the sidelines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2022\/01\/18\/microsofts-activision-deal-shows-big-techs-dominance-over-legacy-media.html\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNBC) Microsoft\u2019s decision to buy video game company Activision Blizzard in a $68.7 billion deal shows big tech firms keep pushing the envelope, while legacy media companies, desperate to reposition themselves for younger audiences, sit on the sidelines. To read [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80483"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80484,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80483\/revisions\/80484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}