Vivendi Dumps Entire 27.3% Stake in Ubisoft, Tencent Buys 5% of Company in New Partnership Deal
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Huge news for Ubisoft as they successfully avoid a hostile takeover and become partners with Chinese advertising behemoth Tencent.
READ MORE >Ubisoft Investors Raise Stakes to Fend Off Vivendi Takeover
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The Guillemot family chips in even more of its personal wealth to hold onto voting power.
READ MORE >Vivendi Continues to Attempt to Usurp Ubisoft
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The king is dead, long live the king.
READ MORE >"Ubisoft is creating IP and making it popular. What media company wouldn't want that in this post ..."
see all 4 commentsVivendi buys more stock in Ubisoft, raising its ownership to 24 percent
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The move was precipitated by Ubisoft's strong third-quarter financials.
READ MORE >What tomorrow's shareholders meeting means for Ubisoft and Vivendi
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Ubisoft's founders have fought off a hostile takeover by Vivendi so far, but tomorrow's meeting could make or break their company's future.
READ MORE >Ubisoft bought back a number of shares to thwart a possible takeover by Vivendi
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The reclaimed shares amount to an additional 3.2 percent stake.
READ MORE >"Ubisoft has had some missteps and some great games over the years. Staying independent means we ..."
see all 7 commentsVivendi acquires remaining shares of Gameloft, likely eyeing Ubisoft next
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Guillemot family believes that Vivendi's hostile takeover goes against Gameloft's best interests.
READ MORE >"Vive did killed the Babylon 5 game. Those ungrateful bastards."
see all 7 commentsVivendi grabs Gameloft in hostile takeover; Ubisoft may be next
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It appears a battle is brewing in France.
READ MORE >"headline : "Vivendi succeeds in" first line of article : " It apparently has almost ..."
see all 6 commentsUbisoft Finds Itself Fighting Off A Hostile Takeover By Way of Vivendi
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Vivendi is gunning for Ubisoft something fierce.
READ MORE >"Looks like Vivendi sees profit in the old girl. Id hate Ubi under Vivendi. I like them the way ..."
see all 8 commentsActivision separation from Vivendi to resume
Activision Blizzard's separation from mega-conglomerate Vivendi was stalled when a lawsuit accused the company of not giving a fair shake to...
READ MORE >Activision separation from Vivendi halted
Vivendi's plan to sell its shares of Activision Blizzard has been suspended. The reason? A lawsuit from an Activision shareholder is preventing the...
READ MORE >Activision shareholder sues over stock buyback
Activision Blizzard shareholder Todd Miller has filed a complaint against the company, alleging that its plan to buy back stock through an investor group disproportionately favors the group with no benefit to Activision.
READ MORE >"Activision's entire existence since 1989 has been to make Bobby Kotick and his investors more ..."
see all 6 commentsActivision Blizzard to become independent company, Vivendi sells majority stake
French conglomerate corporation Vivendi will no longer be the primary owner of Activision Blizzard. The company plans on selling most of it shares in the publisher, making Activision Blizzard an independent company with the majority of its shares publicly traded.
READ MORE >"Independent... yet still publicly owned and traded, which means their games will continue to be ..."
see all 43 commentsReport: Activision 'possible buyers' include Microsoft, Tencent
Activision parent company Vivendi may be looking to sell off its video game division. "Possible buyers" include Chinese game giant Tencent and Microsoft.
READ MORE >"If Microsoft do buy Activison naturally all activision owned IP's would become Microsoft owned. ..."
see all 35 commentsGhostbusters, Brutal Legend, More in Danger as Activision Blizzard Streamlines Vivendi Portfolio
Update 2: Developer Double Fine has chimed in on the fate of Brutal Legend, stating that the Jack Black-starring action-adventure title "is fine."...
READ MORE >"We need Ken and Roberta back, and this bunch of idiot suits out"
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