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While Microsoft is obviously looking to expand its vertically-integrated creative pipeline to improve sales of its Netflix-style Game Pass, the timing here is not a coincidence. The purchase comes at the end of Activision Blizzard's worst year in well over a decade — a year of dented profits and a PR catastrophe that ruined the company's reputation.
YAHOO!News - Jan 19, 2022
If the path to the metaverse runs through today’s video games industry, then Microsoft’s agreed $75bn acquisition of Activision Blizzard could turn out to be one of the defini
The Financial Times - Jan 19, 2022
Microsoft announced a surprise acquisition of Activision, the embattled gaming company. At a price tag of $68.7 billion, it marks Microsoft's largest deal, by far, eclipsing the $26 billion it paid for LinkedIn.
Inc - Jan 19, 2022
Microsoft's agreement to pay almost $69 billion for Activision Blizzard marks the highest price ever paid by a U.S. tech company in an acquisition.
CNBC - Jan 18, 2022
Some Microsoft employees have expressed concerns about Activision Blizzard's ongoing series of scandals, worrying it could exacerbate cultural issues.
Business Insider - Jan 19, 2022
Sony shares dropped nearly 13% after Microsoft’s announced megadeal for Activision. Its investors are right to be concerned.
Wall Street Journal - Jan 19, 2022
Microsoft’s $75bn bid fo Blizzard propelled shares of Sony to its biggest one-day drop since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, with shares in the Japanese entertainment conglomerate dropping as much as 9.
The Financial Times - Jan 19, 2022
Microsoft Corp.’s planned acquisition of Activision Blizzard Inc. is breaking all sorts of records, even for a company that hasn’t shied away from massive deals in recent years.
Bloomberg - Jan 19, 2022
Activision Blizzard Inc. for $68.7 billion will give Microsoft some of the biggest video games in consoles and smartphones and a beachhead in a possible next phase of computing, t
Bloomberg - Jan 19, 2022
Sony Group’s shares fell nearly 13% in Tokyo on concerns about tough new competition for its videogame business from the newly announced combination of Microsoft and Activision Blizzard.
Wall Street Journal - Jan 19, 2022
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