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Microsoft-Activision Blizzard

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Activision Blizzard is a video game holding company that develops and publishes games. It is known for franchises including Call of Duty, World of Warcraft, and Candy Crush. It is a subsidiary of Microsoft.

We dig behind Microsoft-Activision Blizzard's stated narrative to unravel the real strategy — the calls that actually shaped it, and why they played out the way they did.

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Industry
Video games
Founded
2008
Headquarters
Santa Monica, United States
Ownership
Subsidiary of Microsoft

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The Counterfactual · Decision Forks
Microsoft's $95-a-Share Activision Bid: A Premium to the Scandal, a Discount to the Peak
The headline says $69B gaming bet. The filings say something colder: $95/share was a roughly 45% premium to a stock cratered by the scandal, yet a discount to its all-time high of around $104 reached months before the trouble started. Then the regulators made Microsoft give away the one piece that justified the price.
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