{"id":4313,"date":"2022-01-10T21:36:24","date_gmt":"2022-01-10T20:36:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/01\/10\/take-two-acquires-farmville-creator-zynga-in-9-4bn-deal\/"},"modified":"2022-01-10T21:36:24","modified_gmt":"2022-01-10T20:36:24","slug":"take-two-acquires-farmville-creator-zynga-in-9-4bn-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/01\/10\/take-two-acquires-farmville-creator-zynga-in-9-4bn-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Take-Two acquires Farmville creator Zynga in \u00a39.4bn deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The maker of Grand Theft Auto adds popular farming game and Harry Potter to roster to create gaming giant<\/p>\n<p>The maker of hit video games including the Grand Theft Auto franchise is to acquire Zynga, best known for its FarmVille and Harry Potter titles, in a $12.7bn (\u00a39.4bn) deal that will create a global console and mobile gaming giant.<\/p>\n<p>US-listed Take-Two Interactive said the cash and shares deal will create one of the largest publicly traded interactive entertainment companies in the world.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/games\/2022\/jan\/10\/take-two-acquires-farmville-creator-zynga-grand-theft-auto\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/bb1efb7762e14330aba6032cc3ade0c882c0b850\/0_9_4032_2419\/master\/4032.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=6fa330b6e0d900e8a6b3526c14fb3943\" title=\"Take-Two acquires Farmville creator Zynga in \u00a39.4bn deal\" \/>The maker of Grand Theft Auto adds popular farming game and Harry Potter to roster to create gaming giant<br \/>\nThe maker of hit video games including the Grand Theft Auto franchise is to acquire Zynga, best known for its FarmVille and Harry Potter titles, in a $12.7bn (\u00a39.4bn) deal that will create a global console and mobile gaming giant.<br \/>\nUS-listed Take-Two Interactive said the cash and shares deal will create one of the largest publicly traded interactive entertainment companies in the world. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The maker of Grand Theft Auto adds popular farming game and Harry Potter to roster to create gaming giant The maker of hit video games including the Grand Theft Auto franchise is to acquire Zynga, best known for its FarmVille and Harry Potter titles, in a $12.7bn (\u00a39.4bn) deal that will create a global console &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/01\/10\/take-two-acquires-farmville-creator-zynga-in-9-4bn-deal\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Take-Two acquires Farmville creator Zynga in \u00a39.4bn deal<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":4314,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4313"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4313\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}