Activision Blizzard Inc, a leading player in the mobile game publishing giant, is buying King Digital Entertainment Plc, a mobile publisher, for $5.98 billion. After beating the market expectations for third quarter results, Activision has announced its decision of acquiring King. Activision is keen on expanding the mobile gaming activity as the acquisition will create biggest games powerhouse in the world. It's estimated that after the acquisition, it will be next to the market leader Tencent in the global market. The company's stock rose to its all-time high as investors responded positively to the acquisition news.
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Mass Effect 4 Update: BioWare Confirms Holiday 2016 Release Date, No Major Announcements in N7 Day
BioWare has confirmed that "Mass Effect 4" will be released Holiday of next year. However, the company won't be releasing any major announcements for the game in N7 Day.
Khloe Kardashian & James Harden still together; Reality star continues to look after estranged husband Lamar Odom
Khloe Kardashian may be looking after her estranged husband Lamar Odom, but she's still seeing and making time for her NBA player boyfriend James Harden. The 31-year-old beauty was recently spotted supporting her boyfriend at one of his most recent games, before heading back to LA to continue helping husband Lamar recover.
Blake Shelton and Gwen Stefani moving on from exes together?
Amid all the rumors involving Blake Shelton and Gwen Stefani, another one surfaces that claims the pair are moving on from their exes together.
Jon Stewart strikes four-year deal with HBO, bringing Time Warner shares up by 2%
Jon Stewart struck a four-year production deal with HBO, boosting Time Warner's share by 2 percent during midday trading. According to a report published on Forbes, Stewart's main job for the network is to create web content.
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"League of Legends" Season 6 will be full of new features, as developer Riot Games recently announced. Some of these are Mastery Chests and Keys, and a new Champion Select system.
Sources say that Ryan Gosling's home life with Eva Mendes is slowly falling apart and Emma Stone has something to do with it
It seems like Pandora will open up another box as she unleashes a new evil monster tonight on the sixth episode of Sleepy Hollow Season 3. Once again, the witnesses Ichabod Crane and Lt. Abbie Mills will give all they can to vanquish the new demon.
A bizare idea just occurred recently in the Twitch live streaming video platform. A group called themselves "twitchintheshell" planned to install Linux on a virtual machine, based on the most popular keystroke entered by Twitch users. The idea named asTwitch Install has ended in a couple of days after being hijacked by botnet installing other Linux distro.
'The Bastard Executioner' Season 1 Ep. 8 will not be airing this coming Tuesday for FX halloween special. Apart from that, the official synopsis as well as the previous episode recap has been posted online.
More than 40% of goods sold on the Internet in China are fakes or shoddy, according to a report by an official of the standing committee of the National People's Congress, the country's top law-making body.
Ellon Musk's Tesla Motors Inc. announced that there will be a new Chief Financial Officer in the company as its current CFO, Deepak Ahuja will be retiring this year. According to the announcement, the new CFO is Jason Wheeler, a former CFO for Google.
The United States is now third place in the list of top tax havens for foreign companies on the biannual Financial Secrecy Index by the Tax Justice Network, next to Switzerland and Hong Kong.
Chipotle Mexican Grill Inc. announced it has ran steps to improve food safety by hiring two food safety consulting firms, including IEH Laboratories and Consulting Group, to perform batch-testing ingredients as an effort to respond to its E. coli cases.
