Eurogamer: Amazon to buy EA (rumour)

[MoFo2]

https://www.eurogamer.net/amazon-planning-to-buy-ea-report

Online retail giant Amazon is set to announce an offer to buy FIFA publisher EA, a new report has claimed.

USA Today sources state that Amazon will formally announce its offer later today. There's no detail yet on how much it will bid.

[briareos_kerensky]

I wonder how if Amazon will be able to escape antitrust by saying they are just an online retailer for books.
I mean, they'll end up monopolising all of the hate towards companies in the world.

[Asura]

Pretty sure this is legit.

EDIT: Guess you can't get them all I heard this from various sources that were entirely unrelated.

I suspect this is a Gamescom prank.

[fuse]

CNBC now saying this isn't going to happen

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[fuse]

Update on the USAToday story -

Editor’s note (10:37 a.m. ET): Earlier today, GLHF — a gaming/e-sports outlet and content partner of For The Win — ran a version of this story on our website that violated our editorial standards regarding the use of unnamed and unvetted sources. We have updated this story.

Whoopsie.

[eastyy]

I find the whole Stockmarket and shares thing crazy, value can go up on a rumor and the fact so many companies and shareholders always expect never ending growth