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Streaming company Storytel has signed a deal to acquire Audiobooks.com from owner KKR for $135m, extending its reach into the English language audio market
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Peter Jackson sells visual effects firm for $1.6bn to Unity
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A secretive hedge fund is gutting newsrooms
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Imgur has been acquired by MediaLab (owner of Whisper, Kik, WorldStarHipHop, Amino, Genius, etc.)
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Hyundai completes deal for controlling interest in Boston Dynamics
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Stack Overflow has been acquired by Prosus for $1.8 billion
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Etsy is buying Depop, a UK-based second-hand fashion app, for $1.6bn in a bid to target younger Gen-Z shoppers
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Amazon is acquiring MGM for $8.45 billion
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Scroll has been acquired by Twitter
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AT&T may spin off WarnerMedia assets to Discovery
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Amazon said to make $9 billion offer for MGM
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Twitter has acquired Scroll, a subscription for news sites, and intends to integrate it into their own upcoming subscription service
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ArtStation has been acquired by Epic Games, and is reducing its fees by 60%
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Microsoft in talks to buy Discord for more than $10 billion
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Sony Interactive Entertainment and new esports venture RTS have jointly acquired the Evolution Championship Series (Evo) fighting game tournament
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Microsoft's acquisition of Bethesda (ZeniMax) is now officially complete - Some games coming to Xbox Game Pass this week, confirmation of plans for future Xbox/PC exclusives
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Brave has acquired Cliqz and their Tailcat search engine, plans to offer a privacy-oriented search engine
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Epic Games acquires Fall Guys developer Mediatonic
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Embracer Group acquires Gearbox Entertainment (Borderlands), Aspyr Media (Civilization VI), and Easybrain (mobile puzzle games)
These are large acquisitions, but Embracer Group already owns a lot: The Group has an extensive catalogue of over 200 owned franchises, such as Saints Row, Goat Simulator, Dead Island, Darksiders,...
These are large acquisitions, but Embracer Group already owns a lot:
The Group has an extensive catalogue of over 200 owned franchises, such as Saints Row, Goat Simulator, Dead Island, Darksiders, Metro, MX vs ATV, Kingdoms of Amalur, TimeSplitters, Satisfactory, Wreckfest, Insurgency and World War Z amongst many others.
With its head office based in Karlstad, Sweden, Embracer Group has a global presence through its six operative groups: THQ Nordic GmbH, Koch Media GmbH/Deep Silver, Coffee Stain AB, Amplifier Game Invest, Saber Interactive and DECA Games. The Group has 57 internal game development studios and is engaging more than 5,500 employees and contracted employers in more than 40 countries.
Articles about each of the new acquisitions on GamesIndustry.biz:
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Twitter has acquired the Revue editorial newsletter service, made Pro features free and reduced the fee for paid newsletters to 5%, and will start integrating it into Twitter
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Klei Entertainment has agreed to a deal for Tencent to purchase a majority stake in the company
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Visa and Plaid abandon merger after US Justice Department Antitrust Division’s suit to block
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Elon Musk says Apple CEO Tim Cook refused talks to buy Tesla at $60 billion valuation during 2017
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Google acquires Neverware, a company that turns old PCs into Chromebooks
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Electronic Arts reaches agreement for recommended acquisition of British racing game developer Codemasters for approximately $1.2 billion
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Reddit buys TikTok rival Dubsmash
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Hyundai Motor acquires Boston Dynamics from SoftBank for approximately $920 million
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EverQuest studio Daybreak Games acquired by EG7
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Salesforce signs definitive agreement to acquire Slack for approximately $27.7 billion
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Visa wants to buy Plaid, and with it, transaction data for millions of people
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Penguin Random House to buy Simon & Schuster
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BuzzFeed to acquire HuffPost in multi-year partnership with Verizon Media
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Take-Two Interactive reaches agreement for recommended acquisition of British racing game developer Codemasters for almost $1 billion
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Sony nears acquisition of anime-streaming service Crunchyroll for almost $1 billion
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AMD to acquire FPGA-creator Xilinx in an all-stock transaction valued at $35 billion
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What happened to twelve of gaming's biggest studios after they were sold
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Microsoft to acquire ZeniMax Media, parent company of Bethesda, id Software, Arkane Studios, and more
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Why don't we just ban the buying, selling, and merging of companies?
With the ever-growing stream of acquisitions and mergers, it got me thinking: Why do we permit companies to do this? What would the harm be in banning this practice? If a company is becomes...
With the ever-growing stream of acquisitions and mergers, it got me thinking: Why do we permit companies to do this?
What would the harm be in banning this practice? If a company is becomes insolvent, release all of it's IP to the public domain, dissolve all patents/trademarks, and sell off physical assets to pay debtors (first of which should be former employees IMO, but that's a separate discussion).
Edit: I think my original intention of the post to kick off some interesting discussion has worked. Thank you to all current and future posters!
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ARM: UK-based chip designer sold to Nvidia
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TikTok reaches deal to partner with Oracle, rejects Microsoft's plan
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LVMH backs out of $16.2 billion acquisition of Tiffany, citing US threats of tariffs on French goods. Tiffany has filed a lawsuit to enforce the agreement
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Hermann Hauser: ARM sale to Nvidia would be a disaster
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AT&T seeks to sell Crunchyroll to Sony for $1.5 billion
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Microsoft faces complex technical challenges in TikTok carveout
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Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson, investor group agree to buy XFL for $15M
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A summary of the developments over the weekend regarding Microsoft's potential acquisition of TikTok
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ARM is for sale and Nvidia’s interested, Apple isn’t
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Possible sale of ARM incoming, Apple is rumoured to be one of those interested
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Uber to acquire Postmates for approximately $2.65 billion in an all-stock transaction
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