Up until now, computer-maker Dell held the record for the priciest tech deal after it bought data-storage company EMC in 2016 for around $60 billion. Microsoft's own biggest deal was its $26 billion acquisition of professional-networking service LinkedIn around the same time. Microsoft valued ...
Call of Duty maker Activision Blizzard to be bought by Microsoft as UK regulator gives green light The UK competition watchdog has joined other major regulators to give the go-ahead after French gaming company Ubisoft agreed to buy Activision's cloud gaming rights. CMA esta...
Microsoft said Tuesday it is buying video game company Activision Blizzard for $68.7 billion in a transaction that will bring titles such as "World of Warcraft" and "Call of Duty" to the software giant. The purchase comes after Activision wassued over its "frat boy" cultureand amid allegation...
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I bought the combo set not for the super space age crap because when the game went to jet packs and wall running Bull Donkey I stopped playing it. I bought it for the remastered Modern Warfare and was totally disappointed in the three small spawn trap maps and the fact all the cheats ...
Microsoft is paying the enormous sum of nearly $70 billion for Activision Blizzard, the maker of Candy Crush and Call of Duty, a deal that would immediately make it a larger video-game company than Nintendo while raising questions about the deal’s possi
On one level, it was a way to underpin Microsoft’s move beyond the console, to become a “Netflix for games” that meant customers were no longer tethered to a single device, but bought into a gaming ecosystem on the cloud. But it was more than that. Satya Nadella, Microsoft CEO, ...
It acquired Bethseda nearly a year ago and the company also bought Mojang, the maker of Minecraft, in 2014. Microsoft plans to add many of Activision’s games to its Xbox Game Pass once the deal closes. It is also expected that Microsoft will keep making some of Activision’s games for...
In court filings Wednesday, the FTC said it was appealing Corley's decision to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. However, in an order issued Thursday, Corley denied the FTC's motion to put Microsoft's purchase of Activision, maker of the popular "Call of Duty" game seri...
If the deal survives scrutiny from U.S. and European regulators in the coming months, it could be one of the biggest tech acquisitions in history. Dell bought data-storage company EMC in 2016 for around $60 billion. Activision has been buffeted for months by allegations of misconduct and un...