Gambit Sports acquired by Glance to build NFT-based live gaming empire
Glance acquires Indian gaming firm Gambit Sports to build the “biggest platform for NFT-based live gaming experiences” for Gen-Z users. Read more…
Glance acquires Indian gaming firm Gambit Sports to build the “biggest platform for NFT-based live gaming experiences” for Gen-Z users. Read more…
Intel is buying Israeli chipmaker Tower Semiconductor to expand its specialized production skills and take advantage of soaring chip demand. Read more…
Online classifieds platform Carousell is in negotiations to acquire property portal 99.co for a rumored $150 million. Read more…
Indian digital payments and financial service provider Pine Labs has acquired Qfix to bolster its play in the online payments gateway segment. Read more…
SoftBank Group’s sale of Arm to Nvidia has collapsed due to regulatory hurdles. Arm is now planning for an IPO sometime before March 2023. Read more…
Shares in Telecom Italia (TIM) rose 2.9% on Monday after CDP renewed its support for a plan to merge its network assets with Open Fiber. Read more…
Dtac and True’s merger plan could negatively affect competition, innovation, and foreign ownership, say market watchers. Read more…
Maturing tech start-ups and telco companies are driving M&A growth in Southeast Asia, with values up to September 3x those for all of 2020. Read more…
Ericsson agrees to buy cloud communications firm Vonage in a $6.2 billion all-cash deal in a move to broaden its 5G portfolio. Read more…
China’s market regulator said it would block Tencent’s plan to merge video game streaming sites Huya and DouYu on antitrust grounds. Read more…
Vodafone Idea reportedly begins exploratory talks with PE firms to raise $1 billion by divesting stakes in its fiber and data center assets. Read more…
Telenor sells its Myanmar business to M1 Group for $105 million, blaming the difficulties of operating under the military junta. Read more…
NTT said it will spend $40 billion to take its wireless carrier business DoCoMo private, in a deal that opens the path to lower prices. Read more…
Microsoft’s bid to carve out parts of TikTok from ByteDance will be a technically complex endeavor that could test Trump’s patience. Read more…
(Reuters) – Canada’s BlackBerry on Friday raised its bets on the fast-growing areas of autonomous cars and artificial intelligence (AI) with the $1.4 billion purchase of California-based cybersecurity company Cylance. The company’s shares rose as Read more…
FRANKFURT (Reuters) – German business software company SAP has agreed to buy Qualtrics International for $8 billion in cash, pre-empting a planned stock market listing by the US-based company which specializes in tracking online sentiment. Read more…
IBM can finally lay a claim to the cloud with its Red Hat acquisition, but it’s a financially risky play. The acquisition needs to go well because the $34 billion that IBM is paying in Read more…
(Reuters) – IBM said on Sunday it had agreed to acquire US software company Red Hat Inc for $34 billion, including debt, as it seeks to diversify its technology hardware and consulting business into higher-margin Read more…
MANILA (Reuters) – The Philippines’ competition watchdog fined ride-hailing firms Grab and Uber Technologies on Wednesday, saying they consummated their merger too soon and that the quality of service dipped, becoming the second regulator in Read more…
SEOUL (Reuters) – Samsung Electronics said on Wednesday it has bought Barcelona-based network data analysis firm Zhilabs, as the South Korean giant gears up to launch products for connected devices and 5G mobile services that Read more…
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