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The world this week -- Business
本周國際要聞——商業
In what is by far the biggest-ever takeover in the gaming industry, Microsoft agreed to buy Activision Blizzard, the company behind the “Call of Duty” series and “Warcraft”, for $69bn.
微軟同意以690億美元收購《使命召喚》系列和《魔獸爭霸》背后的公司動視暴雪，這是游戲行業有史以來規模最大的一筆收購。
Microsoft is hungry for new content as it seeks to develop a Netflix for games, which can be streamed from any device, such as phones, and not just its Xbox console.
微軟渴望獲得新的內容，該公司正尋求開發游戲界的Netflix，這些游戲可以在手機等任何設備上呈現，而不僅限于Xbox游戲機。
Gaming “will play a key role in the development of metaverse platforms”, stated Satya Nadella, Microsoft’s boss.
微軟老板薩蒂亞·納德拉表示，游戲“將在元世界平臺的發展中發揮關鍵作用”。
Unilever said it would not increase its 50bn pounds ($68bn) offer for GlaxoSmithKline’s consumer health-care business, which in effect ends its pursuit of a deal.
聯合利華表示，它不會提高對葛蘭素史克消費者保健業務500億英鎊（680億美元）的收購報價，這實際上結束了其對這筆交易的追求。
Its ambitious play for the business, which includes such familiar brands as Advil, Nicorette, Panadol and Sensodyne, and in which Pfizer owns a 32% stake, didn’t go down well with Unilever’s investors.
聯合利華雄心勃勃展現在它的業務中，其中包括Advil、Nicorette、Panadol和Sensodyne等人們熟悉的品牌，輝瑞擁有聯合利華32%的股份，不過投資者們并不看好聯合利華在業務上的雄心。
The conglomerate’s stock swooned when news of the bid was made public.
收購消息公布后，該集團的股票暴跌。
ExxonMobil laid out its strategy to reduce carbon emissions, with an aim to reach net-zero emissions by 2050 and a pledge to reduce them by a fifth by 2030 compared with 2016.
埃克森美孚公布了其減少碳排放的戰略，目標是到2050年實現凈零排放，并承諾到2030年將碳排放減少五分之一（相比2016年水平）。
But the plan counts only the company’s own greenhouse gases from its production of oil and gas, and not the broader category of “Scope 3” emissions, which are generated across a firm’s value chain, suppliers and customers.
但該計劃僅算入了該公司本身在石油和天然氣生產中產生的溫室氣體，而沒有計算更廣泛的“范圍3”排放，即公司的價值鏈、供應商和客戶產生的排放。
Providing reassurance that pandemic restrictions really do apply to everyone, Antonio Horta-Osorio resigned as chairman of Credit Suisse after the bank’s board reportedly found that he broke quarantine rules, including on a trip to the Wimbledon tennis final in July.
瑞士信貸董事長安東尼奧·奧爾塔-奧索里奧的辭職向人們保證，疫情限制措施確實適用于所有人。此前有報道稱，該行董事會發現他違反了隔離規定，包括在7月份前往觀看溫布爾登網球決賽。
Mr Horta-Osorio had held the job for less than nine months.
奧爾塔-奧索里奧擔任這一職位不到9個月。
The global job market will take longer to recover from the Covid-19 crisis than had been thought, according to the International Labour Organisation.
據國際勞工組織稱，全球就業市場從新冠危機中恢復的時間將比預期的要長。
Its latest forecast estimates that there will be 52m fewer jobs in 2022 compared with 2019, and that a full recovery in 2023 “remains elusive”.
其最新預測估計，與2019年相比，2022年的就業崗位將減少5200萬個，而2023年的全面復蘇“仍然難以實現”。
Another surge in Covid and supply-chain bottlenecks caused Germany’s economy to shrink by up to 1% in the fourth quarter of 2021 compared with the third, according to an initial official estimate.
根據官方的初步估計，新冠病例再次激增和供應鏈瓶頸導致德國經濟在2021年第四季度比第三季度萎縮多達1%。
For the whole year, German GDP rose by 2.7%, though output was still 2% lower than in 2019, before the pandemic.
德國全年GDP增長2.7%，但產出仍比2019年疫情前低2%。
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