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Mergers, acquisitions and funding

May 2024

  • Man holding a smartphone and playing the Fortnite game

    London-listed Keywords Studios says it will accept £2bn offer

    Video game services company backs EQT private equity bid in latest foreign move on UK-listed firm

April 2024

  • Mustafa Suleyman

    UK competition watchdog steps up scrutiny of big tech’s role in AI startups

    Microsoft and Amazon asked to comment on tie-ups, a move that paves way for formal investigation

October 2023

  • An Epic Games logo

    The music site Bandcamp is beloved and unique. I shudder at its corporate takeover

    Tom Hawking
    The prospect of something so valuable becoming just another strip-mined corporate wreck inspires genuine grief

May 2023

  • Selection of Activision Blizzard game titles including Call of Duty

    Microsoft appeals against UK watchdog’s veto of Activision Blizzard takeover

    CMA says it is defending cloud gaming market, but Microsoft says moves ‘discourages tech innovation and investment’ in UK

April 2023

  • Microsoft logo on a smartphone placed on displayed Activision Blizzard's games characters

    No 10 says UK ‘extremely attractive’ for business after Microsoft broadside

    Downing Street responds to stinging attack from US firm’s president over blocking of $69bn Activision deal
  • Activision Blizzard is the developer of global hit games including Call of Duty.

    What UK ban on Microsoft takeover of Activision Blizzard means for gaming

    CMA surprised sector by saying deal would give Seattle firm undue power to shape cloud gaming
  • A scene from Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II, developed by Activision Blizzard

    Activision Blizzard calls UK ‘closed for business’ after Microsoft takeover veto

    Competition and Markets Authority blocks what would have been biggest acquisition in gaming history

February 2023

  • Microsoft logo on a smartphone placed on Activision Blizzard's games characters

    Microsoft’s Activision Blizzard acquisition will harm UK gamers, says watchdog

    CMA says Xbox maker’s takeover of Call of Duty and World of Warcraft owner could lead to higher prices

November 2022

  • Inside the ‘orange gloom’ of the clean room at the Newport plant.

    Newport semiconductor factory: ‘Losing these jobs would be devastating’

  • Changpeng Zhao, founder and chief executive officer of Binance

    Binance to buy FTX in major cryptocurrency exchange merger

October 2022

  • Elon musk's twitter profile on a smartphone held up to a twitter screen

    Twitter trolls bombard platform after Elon Musk takeover

  • Larry Elliott

    Economics viewpoint
    Twitter deal may signal point when the ‘everything bubble’ bursts

    Larry Elliott
  • a smartphone showing Elon Musk's twitter page

    Twitter takeover: fears raised over disinformation and hate speech

  • Parag Agrawal, the outgoing chief executive of Twitter.

    Twitter bosses entitled to $120m in ‘golden parachute’ payouts

  • Elon Musk completes Twitter takeover amid hate speech concerns

  • Elon Musk completes Twitter takeover and ‘fires top executives’

  • Elon Musk claims he has acquired Twitter ‘to help humanity’

  • White House denies talk of national security review of Elon Musk ventures

  • Science Weekly
    Why does Elon Musk want to buy Twitter?

  • What happens now that Twitter v Elon Musk trial has been delayed?

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