Netflix has bought another gaming studio, the third in the last six months. Boss Fight Entertainment is now owned by Netflix. They bought Night School Studio last September, and earlier this month they bought Stranger Things: Puzzle Tales. The mission of the Boss Fight studio is to bring a simple, beautiful and interesting gaming experience to our players, wherever they want to play video games. It is good that we do not have to worry about monetization and our goal will be to make games without commercials. have joined Netflix and will continue to help develop games on Netflix all together."... … Read More »

Google announced today that it will buy the cyber security company Mandiant for $5.4 billion in cash, due to the strong growth of its business in the cloud computing segment. Google, which owns Alphabet, has offered a price of $23 per share, which is a premium of about 53 percent compared to the price of Mandiant shares before media reports that rival Microsoft is considering buying the cyber company, Reuters reports. The acquisition could strengthen Google's cloud business, which generates more than $19 billion a year but loses billions of dollars a year, and help the company compete in... … Read More »

The cyber security market is of great importance to the team at Microsoft, and their future investments could go in that direction. Since Satya Nadella took over the helm of Microsoft, the company has spent more than $ 100 billion on acquisitions. The most resounding name is the most recent one - the takeover of Activision Blizzard for almost 70 billion dollars, which regulators have yet to approve. Prior to that, the largest acquisition was LinkedIn (more than 26 billion dollars), and of the more famous names, Microsoft also bought Mojang, Bethesda, ZeniMax Media and GitHub. The latest... … Read More »

Nvidia is no longer in the spotlight to buy Arm for $ 40 billion, according to a SoftBank announcement. According to the news, first published by the Financial Times, Nvidia will pay SoftBank $ 1.25 billion for a failed transaction. In addition, Arma CEO Simon Segars will resign. SoftBank, which owns the Arm division, now points out that Arm will be offered publicly, during the fiscal year starting on April 1. Nvidia did not comment on this information, so the company neither confirmed nor denied that the agreement on the purchase of Arma had failed. From the very beginning, the potential... … Read More »

Catapult IP Innovations bought BlackBerry patents for several hundred million dollars. BlackBerry was at one point one of the most important companies in the phone segment. However, today the company is just a licensed name and a collection of various patents. It was a group of such BlackBerry patents that Catapult IP Innovations bought for $ 600 million. The company raised funds through a $ 450 million loan, with a promise to pay off the remaining $ 150 million in the coming years. It is interesting that Catapult IP Innovations is a completely new company, without any products for sale. It is... … Read More »

Sony is buying Bungie, the company that developed the popular games Destiny and Halo, for $3.6 billion. The news of the acquisition comes shortly after Microsoft announced that it is buying Activision Blizzard for $ 68.7 billion, a company known for a series of hit games such as World of Warcraft and Call of Duty. As Bungie CEO Pete Parsons posted on his blog, Bungie will "continue to independently publish and creatively develop games." "In CEE (Sony's subsidiary dedicated to entertainment and games) we have found a partner who unconditionally supports us in everything we are and wants to... … Read More »