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A | LONDON -- Microsoft’s purchase of Call of Duty maker Activision Blizzard won final approval Friday from Britain’s competition watchdog, reversing its earlier decision to block the $69 billion gaming deal and removing the final obstacle for one of the largest tech transactions in history.The Xbox maker’s quest to acquire Activision — maker of other blockbuster games like Candy Crush, World of Warcraft, Diablo and Overwatch — could close imminently ahead of a Wednesday deadline. That would wrap up a merger delayed for close to two years by intense scrutiny from authorities around the world.The blessing from the U.K.'s Competition and Markets Authority was expected after it gave preliminary approval last month to a revamped Microsoft proposal meant to address concerns that the deal would harm competition and hurt gamers, especially in the emerging cloud gaming market where players can avoid buying pricey consoles and stream games to their tablets or phones. “The new deal will stop Microsoft from locking up competition in cloud gaming as this market takes off, preserving competitive prices and services for UK cloud gaming customers,” the watchdog said. Microsoft was grateful for the “thorough review and decision” on a tie-up that “will benefit players and the gaming industry worldwide,” President Brad Smith said.Activision CEO Bobby Kotick says the game maker looks "forward to becoming part of the Xbox Team.”The deal will benefit gamers and be “productive for the gaming industry as a whole," said Josh Chapman, managing partner at venture capital firm Konvoy, which invests in video game startups.However, it also tilts the “balance of power significantly" in favor of Microsoft, whose Xbox console has lagged behind Sony's PlayStation and Nintendo, said George Jijiashvili, senior principal analyst at tech research and advisory firm Omdia. Microsoft “now has a big opportunity to dictate the future of the games industry,” he said. Since the deal was announced in January 2022, Microsoft has secured approvals from antitrust authorities covering more than 40 countries. Crucially, it got a thumbs-up from the 27-nation European Union after agreeing to allow users and cloud gaming platforms to stream its titles without paying royalties for 10 years.But the deal faced resistance from British and American regulators who worried it would stifle competition in the video game industry. Top rival Sony also feared it would limit PlayStation gamers’ access to Call of Duty, Activision’s long-running military shooter series. The U.S. Federal Trade Commission lost a court bid to pause the deal so that its in-house judge could review it. The FTC hasn't given up, appealing the decision and last month filing notice of its plan to resume that trial. That signals the U.S. regulator's intention to unwind the deal even after it closes. In the meantime, the U.K. regulator was the last major hurdle to the transaction going through. To gets its approval, Microsoft will sell off cloud streaming rights outside the EU and three other European countries for all current and new Activision games released over the next 15 years to French game studio Ubisoft Entertainment. British regulators had initially blocked the transaction over concerns Microsoft could withhold Activision titles from the cloud gaming market. Then, in an unprecedented move, the U.K. watchdog said it needed to reconsider.One factor was the EU’s approval, granted after Microsoft promised to automatically license Activision titles royalty-free to cloud gaming platforms. Another “material change of circumstance,” according to court documents, was an agreement Microsoft signed with Sony to make Call of Duty available on PlayStation for at least 10 years.But the regulator still criticized how the deal came together and warned other companies not to use the “tactics employed by Microsoft.”“Microsoft had the chance to restructure during our initial investigation but instead continued to insist on a package of measures that we told them simply wouldn’t work,” the watchdog's CEO, Sarah Cardell, said in a statement. "Dragging out proceedings in this way only wastes time and money.”The U.K. regulator “deserves credit for imposing a structural remedy on Microsoft that is significantly stronger than the weak commitments accepted by the European Commission," said Max von Thun, director of the Europe office of the Open Markets Institute, a proponent of stronger antitrust enforcement. But the CMA's flip-flopping makes the U.K. regulator look “weak and indecisive,” he said.“Moving forward, there is now a serious risk that in their dealings with the CMA, merging companies and their advisors will no longer take no for an answer,” von Thun said. ___AP Technology Writer Matt O’Brien contributed from Providence, Rhode Island.。

IT之家 8 月 22 日消息，抖音黑板报 8 月 21 日发文称，近期，冒充抖音邮寄虚假“兑奖快递”的骗局仍有发生，诈骗分子将各类印有“抖音官方活动”的卡片、宣传册寄给用户，伪装成平台福利、节日回馈或品牌联名活动，诱导用户扫描卡片上的二维码联系“客服”兑奖。

B | 针对此类情况，抖音“验证助手”再次升级，在图片识别的基础上，支持二维码识别，帮用户甄别是否为抖音官方活动。抖音提醒，抖音官方不会以邮寄卡片、附赠小礼品等方式，引导用户扫码进入第三方页面领取福利。IT之家从文中获悉，抖音整理了近期出现的十种仿冒抖音诈骗的“快递资料”，虽然卡片的包装主题不断翻新，但实际上只是把同一套“邮寄引流、扫码转化”的诈骗链路反复包装。有的打着“抖音十周年礼品卡”名义、有的借“端午献礼”“七夕献礼”等节日场景制造官方回馈的假象，还有的围绕季节主题推出“抖音盛夏来信”“抖音清凉一夏”等虚假活动，甚至还有假冒“抖音 618 电商狂欢节”“抖音好物体验季”等营销节点的内容，统一突出“50 元现金卡”“专属礼遇”“扫码即领”等字样，试图通过盗用平台标识和视觉设计降低用户警惕。一旦用户扫码添加所谓的“客服”，对方就会以核实身份、登记礼品、确认收货、激活卡密等为由，要求用户提供手机号、快递号等个人信息，诱导受害人下载诈骗 App 或点击诈骗网站，进行后续诈骗。抖音反诈中心工作人员提醒，抖音不会通过快递邮寄所谓“现金卡”“专属礼品卡”诱导用户扫码领奖，也不会要求用户通过站外链接、陌生二维码或非官方客服渠道完成福利兑换。如遇可疑情况，用户可打开抖音 App 搜索“验证助手”，输入可疑来电号码、短信或网址，上传图片或二维码照片，核验是否为抖音官方信息，同时牢记，不轻信、不下载、不共享屏幕，避免落入仿冒平台的诈骗陷阱。