{"id":1556240,"date":"2022-01-18T08:54:00","date_gmt":"2022-01-18T13:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pocketgamer.biz\/news\/77915\/microsoft-to-acquire-activision-blizzard-for-almost-70-billion-cash\/"},"modified":"2022-01-18T08:54:00","modified_gmt":"2022-01-18T13:54:00","slug":"microsoft-to-acquire-activision-blizzard-for-almost-70-billion-cash","status":"publish","type":"station","link":"https:\/\/platogaming.com\/plato-data\/microsoft-to-acquire-activision-blizzard-for-almost-70-billion-cash\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft to acquire Activision Blizzard for almost $70 billion cash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/platogaming.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/microsoft-to-acquire-activision-blizzard-for-almost-70-billion-cash.jpg\" title=\"Microsoft to acquire Activision Blizzard for almost $70 billion cash\" alt=\"Microsoft to acquire Activision Blizzard for almost $70 billion cash\"> Microsoft has revealed that it has entered an agreement to acquire Activision Blizzard &nbsp;for $68.7 billion. The tech conglomerate will purchase Activision Blizzard for $95 per share, a premium of 45 per cent of its share price on January 14th, in an all-cash transaction, making it the largest video game acquisition ever. Following the acquisition, Microsoft will be the third largest video gam&#8230; <a rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pocketgamer.biz\/news\/77915\/microsoft-to-acquire-activision-blizzard-for-almost-70-billion-cash\/\">Source: http:\/\/www.pocketgamer.biz\/news\/77915\/microsoft-to-acquire-activision-blizzard-for-almost-70-billion-cash\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1556241,"template":"","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","type":"","auto_type":false,"post":"","stream":"","stream_url":"","waveform_data":[],"duration":0,"bpm":0,"downloadable":false,"download_url":"","purchase_title":"","purchase_url":"","post-count-all":0,"like_count":0,"download_count":0,"editor_note":"","copyright":"","captions":[]},"genre":[132],"artist":[142],"mood":[],"activity":[],"station_tag":[5208,6373,5992,5993,3786,3788,3792,3859,3643,3646,12634,5476,3656,3723,3670,3672,11074,3840,3688,3690,5857,3733],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/platogaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/station\/1556240"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/platogaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/station"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/platogaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/station"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platogaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platogaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1556241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/platogaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1556240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"genre","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platogaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/genre?post=1556240"},{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platogaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=1556240"},{"taxonomy":"mood","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platogaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mood?post=1556240"},{"taxonomy":"activity","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platogaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/activity?post=1556240"},{"taxonomy":"station_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platogaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/station_tag?post=1556240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}