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TORONTO — Right-hander Luis Castillo pitched 7 1/3 innings, Cal Raleigh homered and the visiting Seattle Mariners defeated the Toronto Blue Jays 4-0 Friday in the opener of an American League wild-card series.

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Earlier, RIA reported that Telegram messenger was hit with two fines totalling 11 million roubles ($179,000) for refusing to delete channels which allegedly showed how to «sabotage» military vehicles and hosting «unreliable data» about Russia’s progress in what it calls a «special military operation» in Ukraine.

‘I will say that this case is definitely a time to remind parents that it’s very important to know who your children are friends with, whether that’s in the classroom, social media apps, Snapchat, TikTok and then also gaming platforms.’ 

He added: ‘Private equity may struggle to raise finance. This is why we believe we will also see a potential wave of corporate mergers and acquisitions. UK valuations were very attractive even before the dramatic fall in sterling.’ 

LONDON, Aug 16 (Reuters) — A court in Russia has fined streaming service Twitch 2 million roubles ($33,000) for hosting a short video containing what it calls «fake» information about alleged war crimes in the Ukrainian town of Bucha, Russian news agencies reported on Tuesday.

The quartet — Gavin Bazunu, Sam Edozie, Romeo Lavia and Juan Larios — did not have a single top flight appearance between them but the quality emanating from Jason Wilcox’s youth set-up at City is such that they are increasingly being recognised as the gold standard. 

Graham Simpson from Canaccord said that as the UK stares down ‘the barrel of a recession’, bidders will be looking for firms with strong cash flows, high profit margins and low debt that could ‘weather the inflation and interest rates storm’.

‘We had an all-staff meeting on Monday where I highlighted three big organisations — in mobile phones, video rentals and photography — that soon got knocked off their perch by taking their eye off the ball and stopped focusing on what is important.

And clearly worth paying for — Southampton also saw a £15m bid for striker Liam Delap rejected. Almost a third of a record-breaking transfer window, totalling revenues of around £170m, came from selling academy products. 

Games developers, publishers and distributors were asked whether the deal would affect their bargaining power regarding the terms for selling console and PC games via Microsoft’s Xbox and its cloud game streaming service Game Pass.

The EU competition enforcer also asked if Activision’s trove of user data would give the U.S. software giant a competitive advantage in the development, publishing and distribution of computer and console games, the EU document shows.

Blue chip firms including gambling group Entain, packaging company DS Smith and telecoms behemoths BT and Vodafone are all now vulnerable to foreign corporate raiders, according to experts at broker Canaccord Genuity. 

Vodafone could be attractive to a US buyer, the source added. ‘Darktrace has been battered since it went public, so it would make sense, and Vodafone could happen at some point. Though Vodafone is very big and very political — it would be a US buyer coming in, if anybody did.’ 

Cole Palmer has followed Foden’s lead and is now fully integrated into Guardiola’s squad. At least one Premier League club asked to take the tricky forward on loan this term but were met with a firm no. 

Regulators also wanted to know if there would be sufficient alternative suppliers in the market following the deal and also in the event Microsoft decides to make Activision’s games exclusively available on its Xbox, its Games Pass and its cloud game streaming services.

BRUSSELS, Oct 6 (Reuters) — EU antitrust regulators are asking games developers whether Microsoft will be incentivised to block rivals’ access to «Call of Duty» maker Activision Blizzard’s best-selling games, according to an EU document seen by Reuters.

The questionnaire, with about 100 questions, asked which of the rivals such as Nvidia’s GeForce Now, Sony’s Playstation, chronicinfections.org blog post Google Stadia, Amazon Luna and Facebook Gaming could be considered the most attractive following the deal.

They asked if such exclusivity clauses would reinforce Microsoft’s Windows operating system versus rivals, and whether the addition of Activision to its PC operating system, cloud computing services and game-related software tools gives it an advantage in the video gaming industry.