Microsoft buys Activision Blizzard for $68.7 billion
The all-cash deal will let Microsoft, maker of the Xbox gaming system, accelerate mobile gaming and provide building blocks for the metaverse, or a virtual environment.
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The all-cash deal will let Microsoft, maker of the Xbox gaming system, accelerate mobile gaming and provide building blocks for the metaverse, or a virtual environment.
He also announced a new zero-tolerance policy for sexual harassment and the end of forced arbitration - opening the door for employees to sue the company if they feel they've been wronged.
A damning Kotaku report has today detailed a BlizzCon hotel room dubbed as the “Cosby Suite” on the very same day Activision Blizzard employees have walked out of their jobs in protest of alleged discrimination and harrassment of women. According to Kotaku’s report, the “Cosby Suite” was the alleged nickname of Alex Afrasiabi, one of only two people specifically named in a lawsuit filed by the Californian Department of Fair Employment and Housing. The other named party is none other than former Blizzard President J. Allen Brack. “During a company event (an annual convention called...