The Cloud
| Use attributes for filter ! | |
| Parent organizations | Sky |
|---|---|
| Ceo | David Rey |
| Headquarters | St Albans |
| United Kingdom | |
| Founded | January 2003 |
| Number of employees | 100 |
| Number of locations | 22,000 |
| Date of Reg. | |
| Date of Upd. | |
| ID | 1069216 |
About The Cloud
The Cloud is a provider of public access Wi-Fi hotspots in the UK and is a member of the Wireless Broadband Alliance. It has over 22,000 Wi-Fi hotspots network access points in the UK. The Cloud has offices in St Albans, Munich, and Stockholm.
Sustainable fishing: The tech making it cheaper and greener
... The unit automatically switches off when it leaves the water and sends the data to The Cloud - remote computer servers which process and store information in data centres - which fishermen can then view...
Microsoft Activision: What does deal mean for gamers?
... Microsoft had to agree to this to get the deal past UK regulators, who were worried about the company dominating The Cloud industry...
Game of Duty maker to be bought by Microsoft
... Microsoft will hand the rights to distribute Activision s games on consoles and PCs over The Cloud to France s Ubisoft...
Amazon and Microsoft to face cloud computing competition probe
... The services are used by businesses across the UK, and Ofcom estimated that in 2022 The Cloud services market in the UK was worth up to £7...
Microsoft's new Call of Duty deal set for approval
... Under the new proposals, Microsoft will not buy The Cloud gaming rights owned by Activision Blizzard...
Microsoft makes new deal to buy Call of Duty giant
... " Under the new offer Microsoft won t buy the rights for Activision s existing or new games stored in The Cloud...
Why it matters where your data is stored
... " Do we really think that The Cloud Act will [hit] a small business around the corner? We don t know...
Zendaya pays tribute to Euphoria co-star Angus Cloud
... " It is with the heaviest heart that we had to say goodbye to an incredible human today, " said The Cloud family...
Microsoft makes new deal to buy Call of Duty giant
Microsoft has submitted a New Deal to buy Activision Blizzard after its original $69bn (£59bn) bid was rejected by the UK competition watchdog.
The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) confirmed on Tuesday that Microsoft's initial offer for The Call of Duty-maker had been blocked.
It will now review the New Deal but said: " This is not a Green Light . "
Under the new offer Microsoft won't buy the rights for Activision's existing or new games stored in The Cloud .
The Pledge , which will last 15 years, will not cover Activision's PC and console games in the European Economic Area.
Games stored in the so-called cloud allow players to buy content when they like, similar to a streaming service such as Netflix.
Instead of controlling all of Activision's games, which also include Candy Crush, Microsoft said the content would be sold to rival video game publisher Ubisoft.
Ubisoft can then supply Activision's content " to all cloud gaming service providers including to Microsoft itself".
Microsoft's takeover of Activision Blizzard would be the biggest of its kind in the history of the gaming industry.
Microsoft makes the Xbox gaming console and wants to buy Activision to add more titles to its Game Pass streaming service. This allows gamers to download content to their consoles and mobile phones.
However, it has split regulators in the UK, Europe and the US.
Rivals such as Sony have also objected to The Deal , concerned that Microsoft could stop major games being available to its own PlayStation business.
Modern Warfare 2, the latest instalment in The Call of Duty series, made $1bn in its release weekend, and More Than half of all copies sold in the UK were for PlayStation.
Sarah Cardell , chief executive of the CMA, said Microsoft's new and restructured deal was " substantially different from what was put on The Table previously".
She Said the CMA would now examine the offer.
" We will carefully and objectively assess The Details of the restructured deal and its impact On Competition , including in light of third-party comments, " She Said .
" Our goal has not Changed - any future decision on this New Deal will ensure that the growing cloud gaming market continues to benefit from open and effective competition driving innovation and choice. "
Related TopicsSource of news: bbc.com
