A famous loose-cannon/American billionaire has a plan for unseating Google from its search-engine throne – and at a mere $1bn, his idea is significantly less expensive than the billions Microsoft is sinking into that Bing thing.
Broadcast.com co-founder and Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban’s idea is simplicity itself: Just pay the top 1,000 websites a million bucks per to de-list themselves from Google.
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EA just spent $275 million (and up to $400 million in equity retention and variable cash considerations) to acquire Playfish, the social game company behind Pet Society and Restaurant City, popular games on social networks such as facebook and myspace.
For a comparison, Microsoft paid $375 mil for Rare, a record at that time.
Electronic Arts also bought Maxis (The Sims) for $125 mil and Westwood Studios (Command and Conquer) for $122.5 mil, and Intermix Media, parent company of myspace.com was accquired for $580 mil in cash by Fox’s News Corp.
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