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Google considered coordinated, multinational hostile takeover attempt of Epic

79 点作者 hncurious将近 4 年前

6 条评论

saladuh将近 4 年前
Okay this is probably a stupid question, but how would Google go about doing this when Tim Sweeney is adamant that he owns over 50% of Epic's shares and Tencent only has a 'non-controlling' (as Sweeney has said in the past) 40%? As Epic is a private company, I don't understand how this is possible, but then again I'm not well versed in this stuff at all.
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rvz将近 4 年前
From [0]<p>&gt; &quot;Google recognized that Epic might not accept its offer. &#x27;As a potential alternative&#x27;, a senior Google executive proposed that Google &#x27;consider approaching Tencent,&#x27; a company that owns a minority stake in Epic, &#x27;to either (a) buy Epic shares from Tencent to get more control over Epic&#x27;, or &#x27;(b) join up with Tencent to buy 100% of Epic,&#x27;&quot; the complaint said.<p>So for Google to control Epic and perhaps protect themselves in the anti-trust complaints, they wanted to buy up shares from Tencent or team up with them to buy Epic out 100%, with the goal to stop them from complaining about their monopolistic behaviours in the Play Store.<p>Now that&#x27;s one way of showing your true nature, since they know they will lose anyway.<p>Regardless, absolutely vicious creatures.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.protocol.com&#x2F;bulletins&#x2F;google-tencent-epic-games-stake" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.protocol.com&#x2F;bulletins&#x2F;google-tencent-epic-games...</a>
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gentleman11将近 4 年前
Imagine the data this would yield: millions and millions of desktop applications with chat logs, hardware specs, usage patterns, social graphs, anti cheat that monitors everything, even more spending habits, the developer ecosystem and any monitoring that goes with that…
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heybrendan将近 4 年前
The title of this seems... precarious. Wouldn&#x27;t a better title be something along the lines of...<p>&gt; Epic alleges Google considered [a] coordinated, multinational, hostile takeover attempt [of their business]<p>... given legal proceedings seem to be on-going?<p>Also, from TFA:<p>&gt; In a statement, a Google spokesperson said, &quot;As we have stated previously, Epic&#x27;s lawsuit is baseless and mischaracterizes our business conversations. Android provides more choices in mobile devices for developers and consumers.&quot;<p>(@dang, not urgent, but thoughts?)
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ffhhj将近 4 年前
Epic is losing a great opportunity to build a gaming device with a friendly developer store and kick Google&#x2F;Apple stores.
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thickened将近 4 年前
So this is interesting, because yesterday some bloke had a thread on HN around how his FAANG mates are of the subpar IQ sort and he wasn&#x27;t happy with that arrangement.<p>So then, which cabal in Google would be responsible for coordinating a multinational hostile takeover attempt, and how many standard deviations are we talking about here? Do they have a department to themselves? &quot;Mergers, Acquisitions &amp; Hostile Takeovers.&quot; Has a nice ring to it. I wonder if the lad should apply for a transfer.