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Vivendi Officially Withdraws From Ubisoft
Vivendi Sells All Stock In Ubisoft In late 2017, it was revealed that media giant Vivendi was attempting what could only be called a hostile takeover of Ubisoft. Aggressively purchasing shares where ever they could find them, Ubisoft was left in the rather desperate position of potentially having their control…
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Comcast Agrees The Purchase Of UK’s Sky TV
Comcast Agrees The Purchase Of UK’s Sky TV You may not have been aware of it, but companies such as Fox and Sky have effectively been accepting bids over the last 6-months for their purchase. With Rupert Murdoch owning a significant portion of Sky, it was believed for a while that…
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Tesla Board Confirm Elon Musk Takeover Discussions
Tesla Board Confirm Elon Musk Take-Over Discussions Earlier this week, Elon Musk make a very shocking Twitter post. Ok, so that’s not entirely unusual for him, but this one was particularly explosive. In it, in less than 10 words, he announced his plan to remove Tesla from the stock market…
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Comcast End Bidding For Fox But Might Now Try To Buy Sky
Comcast End Bidding For Fox But Might Now Try To Buy Sky Earlier this week, after many months of bidding and battling, Comcast effectively gave up their pursuit for the purchase of Fox. With Disney now in prime position to complete the deal, it just hasn’t worked out for them.…
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Ubisoft Successfully Fight Off Vivendi Takeover
Vivendi Ends Hostile Takeover of Ubisoft For nearly three years now, Vivendi has been trying very hard to acquire Ubisoft. The company, primarily known for communications, has been known to dabble in gaming in the past, but this attempted takeover presented one of the largest business deals in the gaming…
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Fresh Rumours Emerge of AMD Takeover
AMD Takeover Usually, at least once a year, there are rumors over a planned takeover at AMD. These rumors generally tend to circulate for a while, gather speculation and then die off as they quite rightly often deserve. It’s not that I don’t think there aren’t companies who would love…
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Amazon Acquire Doorbell Firm ‘Ring’ For Over $1BN
Amazon Acquire Ring There seem to be very few parts of our life which are not, or cannot, have a technological implementation. Be it central heating, lighting or security, practically everything can be done from your smartphone these days with the right products in place. One such product which has…
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Apple’s Purchase of Shazam Under Formal EU Investigation
Apple Purchase Shazam In December 2017, Apple successfully purchased the popular music app Shazam. The app itself, which began in 1999 quickly became popular as to the ‘go-to’ program for identifying what song you were listening to. The purchase has, however, come under formal investigation from the EU as several…
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EA Acquire Titanfall Developer with Funeral to be Announced
EA set to acquire Respawn Entertainment The Titanfall series games are, generally speaking, excellent. At the very least they are fun first-person shooters. While not to the taste of all, they did allow a new approach to the genre. Titanfall 2, in many regards, was excellent. There was just one…
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Facebook Charged With Misleading Over WhatsApp Merger
Facebook has been accused of deliberately misleading the European Commission (EC) over its merger with instant messaging app WhatsApp. Prior to the $22 billion merger, Facebook claimed that it would not be able to combine user data from the social networking site with the WhatsApp database, a claim that has…
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CD Projekt May Be Preparing Against Hostile Takeover
It wasn’t that long ago that we reported on Vivendi trying to take over Ubisoft and their continued fight against that. Now there is another player in the field that needs to defend themselves! CD Project has called for an extraordinary general meeting of shareholders to be held on November the…
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Microsoft Plans to Acquire LinkedIn For $26 Billion
LinkedIn is an online professional networking platform which allows entrepreneurs, freelance workers and other employees to communicate about business opportunities. Since its formation in December 2002, the site has seen exponential growth and now has 433 million members across the globe. Furthermore, 105 million individuals frequent the website each month…
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Fujitsu Purchase 85% Shares in AMD Operations
AMD have just announced that they are now on a joint venture with electronics giant, Fujitsu. The two companies will be pairing together to provide factories in Penang (Malaysia) and Suzhou (China). Fujitsu will be getting a whopping 85 percent of the joint venture, which is suspected to heavily reduce…
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CD Projekt RED Issues Full Statement on Rumoured EA Buyout
Yesterday, we brought you the rumour, courtesy of Dark Side of Gaming, that Electronic Arts was in talks with CD Projekt RED over a potential commercial deal, maybe even taking the company over outright. The story was provided by an anonymous source who claimed to be an employee of CD…
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Microsoft Rumored to Buyout AMD
It seems that not a day goes by without another rumour or report about someone looking to buy out AMD. According to sources, Microsoft is in talks with AMD about an acquisition which isn’t the first time we’ve heard. A little over 2 months ago, rumours were also abounding that…
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