{"id":4405,"date":"2022-01-18T16:39:00","date_gmt":"2022-01-18T15:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/01\/18\/microsoft-to-buy-call-of-duty-maker-activision-blizzard-for-nearly-70bn\/"},"modified":"2022-01-18T16:39:00","modified_gmt":"2022-01-18T15:39:00","slug":"microsoft-to-buy-call-of-duty-maker-activision-blizzard-for-nearly-70bn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/01\/18\/microsoft-to-buy-call-of-duty-maker-activision-blizzard-for-nearly-70bn\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft to buy Call of Duty maker Activision Blizzard for nearly $70bn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tech giant acquires publisher of games including World of Warcraft and Candy Crush<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft is to pay almost $70bn to buy Activision Blizzard, the publisher of mega franchises including Call of Duty, World of Warcraft and Candy Crush, in the biggest ever takeover in the tech and gaming sectors.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft said that the $68.7bn (\u00a350.6bn) all-cash deal \u2013 which dwarfs its previous biggest,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2016\/jun\/13\/linkedin-bought-by-microsoft-for-262bn-in-cash\"> the $26bn takeover of LinkedIn in 2016<\/a> \u2013 will \u201cprovide the building blocks for the metaverse\u201d. It is the biggest deal in tech history, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2015\/oct\/12\/dell-to-buy-emc-in-67bn-dollars-deal\">eclipsing the $67bn paid by Dell to buy the digital storage giant EMC in 2015.<\/a><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2022\/jan\/18\/microsoft-buy-call-of-duty-activision-blizzard-world-of-warcraft\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/970d0adca5d95808af3a3044b9a90acac4644497\/430_12_2896_1738\/master\/2896.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=701ddcc21f1f8184116de51c90b92194\" title=\"Microsoft to buy Call of Duty maker Activision Blizzard for nearly $70bn\" \/>Tech giant acquires publisher of games including World of Warcraft and Candy Crush<br \/>\nMicrosoft is to pay almost $70bn to buy Activision Blizzard, the publisher of mega franchises including Call of Duty, World of Warcraft and Candy Crush, in the biggest ever takeover in the tech and gaming sectors.<br \/>\nMicrosoft said that the $68.7bn (\u00a350.6bn) all-cash deal \u2013 which dwarfs its previous biggest, the $26bn takeover of LinkedIn in 2016 \u2013 will \u201cprovide the building blocks for the metaverse\u201d. It is the biggest deal in tech history, eclipsing the $67bn paid by Dell to buy the digital storage giant EMC in 2015. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tech giant acquires publisher of games including World of Warcraft and Candy Crush Microsoft is to pay almost $70bn to buy Activision Blizzard, the publisher of mega franchises including Call of Duty, World of Warcraft and Candy Crush, in the biggest ever takeover in the tech and gaming sectors. Microsoft said that the $68.7bn (\u00a350.6bn) &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/01\/18\/microsoft-to-buy-call-of-duty-maker-activision-blizzard-for-nearly-70bn\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Microsoft to buy Call of Duty maker Activision Blizzard for nearly $70bn<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":4406,"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\/4405"}],"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=4405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4405\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}