Sony shares slid as much as 2% in Tokyo trade on Wednesday after Microsoft said it would buy the parent of games publisher Bethesda Softworks, in a deal to bolster its games slate as it eyes cloud gaming expansion.
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After the initial euphoria of skipping smog-filled traffic jams, a new reality has dawned in which the workday blends into the rest of life, like a never-ending video conference call.
Microsoft said on Monday it plans to acquire ZeniMax Media, owner of the storied videogame publisher Bethesda Softworks, for $7.5-billion, its biggest videogame purchase ever.
Sony said its next-generation PlayStation 5 console would launch in November priced at $499.99 and $399.99 for a version without a disc drive, as it squares off against rival Microsoft’s new Xbox console.
Deploying data centres under the sea is not only feasible, it is logistically, environmentally and economically practical. That’s the finding from Microsoft, whose Project Natick has been experimenting with the idea of subsea data centres for several years.
At a time when its collection of businesses are all declining, Sony had one bright spot on the horizon: a new games console. Now the company, and its investors, will need to wait a little longer for that fresh high.
ByteDance founder and CEO Yiming Zhang’s decision to drop his pursuit of a sale of TikTok’s US operations to Microsoft in favour of a partnership with Oracle was the culmination of weeks of pressure.
Google aims to power its data centres and offices solely with renewable energy by 2030, its CEO said, becoming the biggest company in the world to commit to ditching coal and natural gas power.
Six weeks after announcing to the world it was in talks to buy TikTok, Microsoft comes out to tell us it didn’t get the gig. CEO Satya Nadella dodged a bullet. Now the gun is aimed directly at Oracle and its chairman, Larry Ellison.
ByteDance abandoned the sale of TikTok in the US on Sunday to pursue a partnership with Oracle that it hopes will spare it a US ban while appeasing China’s government, people familiar with the matter said.