Items tagged with Acquisition
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Victor Awogbemila - Mon, Jun 30, 2025
In what is now the latest state of the nation on the future of TikTok, President Trump has revealed on X(Twitter) that an anonymous group of "very wealthy people" is ready to buy TikTok, and he even expressed confidence that Chinese...
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Victor Awogbemila - Thu, Apr 03, 2025
In January, we reported on a potential TikTok acquisition involving TikTok star MrBeast and some unidentified billionaires. Although that acquisition never materialized, there is a new, last-minute intervention in the works designed to...
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Alan Velasco - Thu, Mar 13, 2025
Niantic, the company behind popular mobile titles such as Pokémon Go and Monster Hunter Now, alongside several other games, will be selling off most of its gaming division for $3.5 billion. However, the company is opting to hold onto AR...
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Alan Velasco - Mon, Aug 12, 2024
Tango Gameworks, one of several studios that Microsoft announced it would be shutting down earlier this year, has been picked up by South Korean game publisher Krafton and will continue to operate. The Hi-Fi Rush IP, which spawned one of...
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Alan Velasco - Fri, Mar 29, 2024
The Embracer group continues to shed development studios, this time selling Gearbox Entertainment to Take-Two Interactive. Embracer Group originally acquired Gearbox Entertainment for $363 million with the possibility of the purchase being...
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Ryan Whitwam - Thu, Jul 13, 2023
Microsoft has been trying to close its $69 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard for more than a year, and a recent court victory has moved the Xbox maker to within a hair's breadth of the goal line. The Federal Trade Commission...
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Tim Sweezy - Wed, Feb 08, 2023
Activision-Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick sends a message to UK regulators ahead of its provisional findings on the $69 billion Microsoft acquisition. Kotick believes opposing the deal would cause the UK to become a "Death Valley" for...
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Tim Sweezy - Thu, Dec 08, 2022
The Federal Trade Commission has voted to issue an administrative complaint against Microsoft Corp.'s acquisition of game developer Activision-Blizzard. The announcement follows Microsoft's agreement with Nintendo concerning the...
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Lane Babuder - Tue, Nov 01, 2022
In recent months the acquisition of Activision-Blizzard by Microsoft has come under significant scrutiny both from regulators and competitors. The claim is that if Microsoft gains controlling interest in the games developer they could have...
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Lane Babuder - Thu, Oct 13, 2022
Microsoft has been attempting to acquire one of gamings largest developers since the beginning of 2022, Activision-Blizzard. The company behind Diablo, Warcraft, Overwatch, Call of Duty, and many more titles. The price tag? About $68.7...
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Tim Sweezy - Wed, Aug 31, 2022
NetEase, best known for its mobile gaming fortune, has acquired French developer-publisher Quantic Dream. This marks the Chinese company's first venture into the European market, as it looks to expand its reach worldwide.
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Lane Babuder - Tue, May 24, 2022
It seems to be the era of gaming acquisitions as of late. Take-Two Interactive, the publisher behind a couple of games you just might have heard of, has decided to take a page from Microsoft's playbook in that regard. Take-Two has...
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Brittany Goetting - Thu, Mar 03, 2022
What happens when you combine a major video game developer and publisher with an indie music platform? We do not know yet, but we are about to find out. It was recently announced that Epic Games is acquiring Bandcamp.
Bandcamp is an...
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Brittany Goetting - Tue, Oct 27, 2020
2020 has been a year marked by a few major tech acquisitions and AMD has recently jumped on this trend. AMD just announced that it will acquire Xilinx for $35 billion USD. This acquisition increases AMD’s total addressable market (TAM) to...
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Dave Altavilla, Brandon Hill - Wed, Jul 22, 2020
If rumors are accurate, or if where there is smoke there is usually fire, we could be soon witnessing a major shakeup in the chip industry. Multiple mainstream business press outlets are reporting this evening that NVIDIA is making a...
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Shane McGlaun - Tue, Jul 07, 2020
Microsoft has expressed interest in purchasing the Warner Bros. gaming unit, which is currently owned by AT&T. News of Microsoft's interest in buying the gaming unit comes from two people who claim to be familiar with its plans. Warner...
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Brittany Goetting - Sat, Jun 13, 2020
AT&T is working on trimming its budget and this may include the sale of more recent acquisitions. It is rumored that AT&T plans to sell Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment gaming division. The gaming division may sell for as much as $4...
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Shane McGlaun - Thu, May 07, 2020
Zoom is a video conferencing platform that has seen impressive growth during the coronavirus pandemic as it has been widely adopted by schools and businesses to support people working and learning from home. Zoom today announced the...
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Shane McGlaun - Sun, Apr 05, 2020
A rumor is going around that Apple is set to purchase a virtual reality company called NextVR. NextVR is a company located in Orange County, California that has been working for the last decade on VR experiences in sports and...
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Shane McGlaun - Mon, Jun 04, 2018
Updated: 6/4/2018 @ 9:22am
Microsoft has confirmed its acquisition of GitHub in a company blog post, and the deal is valued at $7.5 billion. “Microsoft is a developer-first company, and by joining forces with GitHub we strengthen our...
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Brittany Goetting - Sat, Jun 02, 2018
Is GitHub Microsoft’s next acquisition target? Microsoft officials have allegedly held talks to purchase the largest source code host in the world. The companies have spoken to each other before, but these most recent talks are purportedly...
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Paul Lilly - Tue, Oct 18, 2016
Yahoo can't seem to catch a break these days. At least one research firm predicts the company will report a double-digit decline in ad revenue when it reports earnings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Coupled with the negative...
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