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Bobby Kotick

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33 articles stable

Bobby Kotick has appeared in 33 articles since 2021-07. Coverage peaked in 2023Q2 with 6 articles. Frequently mentioned alongside Activision Blizzard, Activision, Microsoft, Kotick.

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Coverage Timeline

2024-03-11
Wall Street Journal 18 related

Source: ex-Activision CEO Bobby Kotick has approached ByteDance to express interest in buying TikTok and floated the idea of partnering to Sam Altman and others

2024-03-10
Wall Street Journal 5 related

Source: ex-Activision CEO Bobby Kotick has approached ByteDance to express interest in buying TikTok and floated the idea of partnering to Sam Altman and others

Legislation forcing a sale or shutdown of the popular app has rekindled interest in possible deal

2023-10-14
Windows Central 58 related

The UK CMA approves Microsoft's $68.7B Activision Blizzard acquisition, after Microsoft reformed the deal to sell some Activision cloud gaming rights to Ubisoft

Who would have thought that a regulatory body that refused to let Meta buy Giphy would allow Microsoft to buy Activision? … Bluesky: Knoebel / @knoebel.bsky.social : The Cloud Deal with Ubisoft change...

2023-10-13
The Verge 85 related

Microsoft completes Activision Blizzard acquisition after a 20-month battle with regulators in the UK and US; Bobby Kotick will remain CEO until the end of 2023

The Verge exclusively reported last week that Microsoft was planning to close today, and now it's official.

2022-05-03
Wall Street Journal 1 related

Filing: Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick could walk away with ~$520M after Microsoft's deal, set to close in 2023; he owns 4.3M shares and can buy 2.2M more

Wall Street Journal :

2022-02-24
Axios 6 related

SEC filing: Activision CEO Bobby Kotick would get $15M if Microsoft fires him without cause; Phil Spencer began acquisition talks three days after WSJ's exposé

2022-01-20
Wall Street Journal 50 related

Sources: in recent weeks, CEO Bobby Kotick suggested Activision Blizzard make an acquisition, including of trade publications like Kotaku and PC Gamer

After a lawsuit and a Journal report, the company's stock was falling, board members were getting anxious—and the tech giant was ready to take a gamble

2022-01-19
Wall Street Journal 20 related

Sources: in recent weeks, CEO Bobby Kotick suggested Activision Blizzard make an acquisition, including of trade publications like Kotaku and PC Gamer

After a lawsuit and a Journal report, the company's stock was falling, board members were getting anxious—and the tech giant was ready to take a gamble

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TEXXR tracks 23 Techmeme articles mentioning Bobby Kotick, dating back to October 2021. The biggest stories include Microsoft completes Activision Blizzard acquisition after a 20-month battle with... and Microsoft completes its Activision Blizzard acquisition after a 20-month battle with.... Frequently covered alongside Activision Blizzard, Activision, Microsoft, Satya Nadella, and Phil Spencer.

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