{"id":869,"date":"2022-01-18T19:07:18","date_gmt":"2022-01-18T19:07:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hello.inherentknowledge.org\/2024\/2022\/01\/18\/microsoft-to-buy-videogame-maker-activision-blizzard-for-68-7b\/"},"modified":"2022-01-18T19:07:18","modified_gmt":"2022-01-18T19:07:18","slug":"microsoft-to-buy-videogame-maker-activision-blizzard-for-68-7b","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hello.inherentknowledge.org\/2024\/2022\/01\/18\/microsoft-to-buy-videogame-maker-activision-blizzard-for-68-7b\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft to buy videogame maker Activision Blizzard for $68.7B"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a buyout that dwarfs others, Microsoft <a href=\"https:\/\/news.microsoft.com\/2022\/01\/18\/microsoft-to-acquire-activision-blizzard-to-bring-the-joy-and-community-of-gaming-to-everyone-across-every-device\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">announced plans today<\/a> to purchase digital game development company <a href=\"https:\/\/www.activisionblizzard.com\/\">Activision Blizzard<\/a> in an all-cash deal worth $68.7 billion.<\/p>\n<p>If the acquisition goes through, it would significantly add to Microsoft\u2019s already sizeable videogame operation, which includes &#8220;Minecraft&#8221; and &#8220;Doom.&#8221; Activision\u2019s stable of popular video games includes &#8220;Call of Duty,&#8221; &#8220;World of Warcraft,&#8221; and &#8220;Candy Crush&#8221; \u2014 all of which are already available through Microsoft\u2019s Xbox console business.<\/p>\n<p class=\"jumpTag\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/article\/3647294\/microsoft-to-buy-videogame-maker-activision-blizzard-for-687b.html#jump\">To read this article in full, please click here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a buyout that dwarfs others, Microsoft announced plans today to purchase digital game development company Activision Blizzard in an all-cash deal worth $68.7 billion. If the acquisition goes through, it would significantly add to Microsoft\u2019s already sizeable videogame operation, which includes &#8220;Minecraft&#8221; and &#8220;Doom.&#8221; Activision\u2019s stable of popular video games includes &#8220;Call of Duty,&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hello.inherentknowledge.org\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hello.inherentknowledge.org\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hello.inherentknowledge.org\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hello.inherentknowledge.org\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hello.inherentknowledge.org\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hello.inherentknowledge.org\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hello.inherentknowledge.org\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hello.inherentknowledge.org\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}