Tears of the Cows 1,204 Posted January 19, 2022 Share Posted January 19, 2022 Behind the scenes, Spencer was working on a merger approach. Microsoft's pitch, as with its other large gaming deals, heavily leveraged Spencer’s decades-long industry experience. The executive joined Microsoft as an intern in 1988 after a stint hawking video games and PC gear in a Computer Mart in Vancouver, Washington. Yet even as Activision fought to salvage its reputation with players and investors—the stock dropped about 15% in the month after the Wall Street Journal article — and weighed the potential takeover, Kotick and the board weren’t sold on Microsoft as the acquirer, two people familiar with the matter said. Activision made calls to try to find other interested parties, said the people, who asked not to be identified talking about private conversations. Those included Facebook parent Meta Platforms Inc. and at least one other big company. But no other serious interest materialized. In an interview, Spencer declined to discuss how the deal went down. A Meta spokesperson declined to comment, and a representative for Activision didn’t return requests for comment. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
lostfool 680 Posted January 19, 2022 Share Posted January 19, 2022 What do you mean attempted to sell Facebook? As in stocks they have in Meta? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
MalaXmaS 646 Posted January 19, 2022 Share Posted January 19, 2022 I hope Kotick gets the boot really soon. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Tears of the Cows 1,204 Posted January 19, 2022 Author Share Posted January 19, 2022 29 minutes ago, lostfool said: What do you mean attempted to sell Facebook? As in stocks they have in Meta? They asked FB to buy them. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
TLHBO 2,158 Posted January 20, 2022 Share Posted January 20, 2022 (edited) So Activision went looking for a buyer, but nobody other than MS wanted them? And Activision wanted anyone other than MS to buy them? This is like when a 4/10 woman is being pursued by the balding, obese Star Trek nerd, and she's trying to flirt with all the chads but none of them want her so out of fear of being alone she relents and hooks up with the loser that stinks of body odour Edited January 20, 2022 by TLHBO Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Spicalicious 128 Posted January 20, 2022 Share Posted January 20, 2022 (edited) 8 hours ago, TLHBO said: So Activision went looking for a buyer, but nobody other than MS wanted them? And Activision wanted anyone other than MS to buy them? This is like when a 4/10 woman is being pursued by the balding, obese Star Trek nerd, and she's trying to flirt with all the chads but none of them want her so out of fear of being alone she relents and hooks up with the loser that stinks of body odour MS will still own Activision Blizzard TLHBO? More like TCHBR Edited January 20, 2022 by Spicalicious Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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