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Tencent's pursuit for bigger stakes in gaming firms comes as other tech giants such as Microsoft, Sony and Amazon are snapping up gaming assets and related intellectual properties, said three of the sources.

However, the online shopping giant is hiring 4,000 new employees in 2022 in the UK, taking its total workforce to 75,000. It has also established a major hub in the UK for Amazon Web Services, the company's 'internet cloud' operations.
It expects to spend more than £1.8billion building and operating data centres over the next two years.

The $12.5 billion in debt financing from the banks is ironclad, according to the analyst Ives, who wrote that 'the banks are essentially cemented to this Twitter debt deal and we see no way out despite the very tough debt markets today.'

And Musk could even foil his own deal by refusing to sign a letter certifying Twitter is solvent, though the judge in the case is likely to force the billionaire to sue the banks for the agreed-upon money under the New York law that governs them. 

According to the filing, lawyers representing the banks providing debt financing have reassured the billionaire that they are prepared to honor their obligations, and proceeding with a lawsuit could drag out payment for months.

'Twitter will not take yes for an answer,' Musk's lawyers claim in the document. 'Astonishingly, they have insisted on proceeding with this litigation, recklessly putting the deal at risk and gambling with their stockholders´ interests.' 

The high street giant denied its Sparks Pay credit account resembled a buy-now-pay-later scheme because it is regulated by the City watchdog, the Financial Conduct Authority - unlike similar products provided by other firms such as Klarna. 

However, it is now aggressively seeking to own majority or even controlling stakes in overseas targets, notably in gaming assets in Europe, the four people with direct knowledge of the matter told Reuters.

Also, with Beijing strictly restricting game approvals at home and still suspending approvals for games of foreign IPs, Tencent is forced to move towards gaining control of foreign game companies and their IPs, said the four sources.

For most of its history MG - also known as Morris Garages - was associated with British open-top roadsters but that changed with the collapse of Rover in 2005, which saw the Chinese state-owned SAIC group take over.

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Britain is spearheading efforts to develop the Tempest programme, which is putting together proposals for a new sixth-generation fighter jet that could be equipped with lasers, be able to fly unmanned and use swarming technology that controls teams of drones. 

Musk has said he would finance the deal with his own cash, co-investors and bank financing. But rising interest rates and economic uncertainty caused by the war in Ukraine make such deals more costly for lenders.

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