Stock Spotlight: Microsoft makes a play as it eyes a vision of the future

Tech giant 'impossible to avoid'

James Baxter-Derrington
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Microsoft has made a bid for the crown of “highest quality business in the world” with its recent $69bn purchase of Activision Blizzard, as the world’s second most valuable company takes aim at the current and future potential of the cultural landscape.

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