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Activision Blizzard’s Deal with YouTube Is Reportedly Worth $160 Million eSports

Activision Blizzard’s Deal with YouTube Is Reportedly Worth $160 Million

The game maker continues to capitalize on the popularity of its top esports franchises. Activision Blizzard's (NASDAQ:ATVI) Overwatch League has been a hot ticket over the last few years on the esports scene. In January, Activision struck a media-rights deal with Alphabet's (NASDAQ:GOOG) (NASDAQ:GOOGL) YouTube to be the exclusive broadcast…
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February 14, 2020
Duterte Terminates U.S. Defense Pact, Pleasing Trump but Few Others Chinese Expansionism

Duterte Terminates U.S. Defense Pact, Pleasing Trump but Few Others

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte decided on Tuesday to end a long-standing defense agreement with the United States, signaling a major break in a U.S.-Philippines military alliance that the United States has long seen as essential to countering the rise of China. The Philippine president officially filed to terminate the Visiting…
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February 14, 2020
California could go through all of February without a significant storm for the first time since 1864. A photo from space reveals why. NOAA

California could go through all of February without a significant storm for the first time since 1864. A photo from space reveals why.

California is having an extremely dry February.The satellite image above reveals why: A high-pressure system is directing the Pacific Ocean's atmospheric river — the stream that brings rain to the West Coast — towards Washington state.The majority of California is experiencing abnormally dry conditions and moderate drought.Visit Business Insider's homepage…
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February 14, 2020
What Happens Next in Ireland Scottish National Party

What Happens Next in Ireland

Political drama in Britain and Ireland continues… but not because of Brexit (mercifully). Roughly a week after the UK officially left the EU, Ireland held elections that catapulted Sinn Fein from political periphery to possible king-maker as the one-time political arm of the Irish Republican Army (IRA) surprised everyone—including themselves—by…
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February 14, 2020
2:00PM Water Cooler 2/14/2020 Pre-Crime

2:00PM Water Cooler 2/14/2020

By Lambert Strether of Corrente. Politics “But what is government itself, but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?” –James Madison, Federalist 51 “They had one weapon left and both knew it: treachery.” –Frank Herbert, Dune * * * 2020 Alert reader dk (not to be confused with DK)…
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February 14, 2020