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New Emails Reveal Microsoft Wanted To Buy Sega, Bungie
27.6.2023
Microsoft is currently in court trying to move forward with its massive deal to acquire Activision Blizzard. But new emails, which surfaced during the ongoing court hearing, reveal that Xbox was discussing plans to buy up other video game studios and publishers, including Sega, Bungie, Niantic,...
BCB Group's Deputy CEO Departs After Failed German Bank Merger
23.6.2023
The crypto banking firm said last week that it had ended its planned acquisition of Germany’s Sutor Bank, citing regulatory delays and market conditions
FTC Tries Blocking Microsoft, Activision's $69B Deal, Claiming It's Being Rushed
13.6.2023
Microsoft’s attempted $69 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard has been in a kind of limbo due to scrutiny from various regulatory bodies here in the U.S. and in the UK, and today the tech company faces one more hurdle. The Federal Trade Commission has filed a request for both a restraining...
The Reason Regulators Blocked Microsoft's Activision Deal Makes No Sense
28.4.2023
The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) potentially torpedoed the biggest tech acquisition in history this week and hardly anyone understands why. There are plenty of reasons to prevent a giant corporation from trying to buy huge competitive advantages just because it can flood the zone...
U.S. Government's Case Against Voyager-Binance.US Merger Given Weight by Judge – Here's the Latest
3.4.2023
The case the US Government has made against Binance.US’ plans for an acquisition of bankrupt crypto lender Voyager Digital got a little stronger after a judge decided to halt the merger of the firms pending a government appeal.
The new ruling marks a turn of events after another judge earlier this...
DeFi Exchange mStable Mulls Over Acquisition, Merger Offers
15.3.2023
MStable’s community will vote this month on whether to accept one of the offers, or sunset its struggling stablecoin investments service
Bitcoin Miner Hut 8 Talks Operational Issues and USBTC Merger in Earnings Call
9.3.2023
The Canadian mining firm has pulled 7,000 machines from a site due to litigation and is troubled by "electrical issues" at another site
Sony Sounds More Paranoid Than Ever About Xbox Owning Call Of Duty
8.3.2023
In new documents, Sony seems worried and more paranoid than ever about the prospect of Microsoft owning Call of Duty should that company’s deal to consume Activision Blizzard go through. It goes so far as suggesting that Microsoft could raise the price on future Call of Duty installments...
Forspoken Studio Being Absorbed Back Into Square Enix
1.3.2023
Yesterday, Luminous Productions, the developers behind the rocky fantasy parkour game Forspoken, announced that it will no longer exist as a separate game studio. On May 1, Luminous will be merged back into its parent company, Square Enix.Read more
Xbox Boss Now Downplaying Importance Of Controversial Activision Merger
27.2.2023
In a new interview Phil Spencer, the head of Xbox, said that “Xbox will exist” even if its massive deal to buy up Call of Duty publisher Activision falls apart due to continued and intense regulatory scrutiny and public pushback. Read more
Everything That’s Happened In The Microsoft-Activision Merger Saga
13.2.2023
On January 18, 2022, Microsoft announced that it planned to buy Activision Blizzard King—the mega-publisher behind games like Call of Duty, World of Warcraft, and Candy Crush—in a deal worth nearly $70 billion.Read more
Hut 8 merger would've happened even without FTX or crypto turmoil, says CEO
9.2.2023
Falling crypto prices have forced many crypto miners to cut costs or consolidate in order to survive the crypto winter
Cloud mining firm BitFuFu postpones merger with SPAC until May
8.2.2023
Bitfufu's plans to go public have been delayed for the second time. The company is the cloud mining arm of Chinese mining giant Bitmain
Crypto mining firms Hut 8 and US Bitcoin plan merger
7.2.2023
The merger, which will create the company 'New Hut', is still subject to court and regulatory approval by U.S. and Canadian authorities
Pocket Network forms a merger with Arbitrum One
7.2.2023
Pocket Network happens to have formed a much official merger with Arbitrum One. This was carried out to facilitate the transfer of the power of the decentralized RPC framework to the chain. Arbitrum one happens to be one of the most sought-after and new-age layer 2 upgrading solutions where...
Bitcoin Miners Hut 8, US Bitcoin Corp. Announce Merger
7.2.2023
The combined company will have access to 825 MW of energy capacity
Bitcoin Miner Gryphon to Go Public Via All-Stock Merger With Cannabis Firm Akerna
27.1.2023
Gryphon previously terminated plans to go public via a reverse merger with Sphere 3D
Pudgy Penguins forms exclusive merger with LayerZero
27.1.2023
Pudgy Penguins takes the opportunity to air its extreme pleasure in making its official announcement regarding the formation of a partnership that it has made with LayerZero. This very entity happens to be an omnichain interoperability protocol which helps in paving the way for going cross-chain...
Circle denies blaming SEC for shuttered $9B plan to go public
26.1.2023
A Jan. 25 report from the Financial Times which was widely shared characterized Circle as having "blamed" the SEC for its "jettisoned" public listing plan
Today in Crypto: Digital Surge Saved from Bankruptcy Following FTX Collapse, Circle Blames US SEC for Failed Merger, Celsius Mulling Issuance of a New Token
25.1.2023
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