The amount is stratospheric: 69 billion dollars.
It is the amount of the GDP of Burma or that of Luxembourg.
And it is also the amount paid by Microsoft, under the leadership of its CEO Satya Nadella, to acquire Activision-Blizzard - the largest video game publisher, valued at 50 billion dollars on the stock market before the announcement of this takeover. which took the world by surprise on Tuesday 18 January.
It is the largest transaction since the start of the pandemic (across all sectors) and the largest in Microsoft's history.
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“The video game has always been a key element since the beginnings of Microsoft,
wrote Nadella in an e-mail to the employees of the company created by Bill Gates.
Today it is the largest and fastest growing form of entertainment.
As the digital and physical worlds come together, it will play a vital role in the development of metaverse platforms.”
Arrived at the head of Microsoft in 2014 after…
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