The American corporation Microsoft is interested in buying the gaming division of Warner Bros. for $ 4 billion, reports The Information, citing sources inside the company. The company intends to continue the policy of buying game developers to solve the problem with the lack of exclusive games for the new Xbox Series X. In June 2020, it became known that Warner intended to sell its Interactive...

The New York State Department of Financial Services (DFS) announced an agreement with Deutsche Bank, under which the bank will pay a fine of $ 150 million. A fine is imposed for "significant violations" committed by the bank in servicing accounts of the infamous financier Jeffrey Epstein, as well as in the course of business cooperation with Danske Bank Estonia and FBME Bank. The New York...

Uber Technologies, a taxi and food delivery service, announced purchase of a $ 2.65 billion-worth Postmates food delivery service. It will issue 84 million new shares that will be exchanged for 100% of Postmates shares. Boards of directors of both companies approved the deal. The takeover of Postmates was supported by shareholders holding the majority of the shares of the service. The deal must...

American Zynga Inc., a developer of popular social networks games, said it had closed a deal to buy all outstanding shares of Turkish Peak Games. It estimated the deal at about $ 1.85 billion. The payment was made almost equally by cash and ordinary shares of the company. As a result of the transaction, Zynga received two franchises from Toak Blast and Toy Blast from Peak Games, which have...

U.S. electricity supplier Dominion Energy announced on Sunday that it is selling its gas business to Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway. Dominion sells gas transportation and storage business to Buffett for $ 9.7 billion. The deal includes a 25 percent stake in the Maryland LNG terminal, although Dominion will keep a blocking packet in the terminal. Earlier on Sunday, Dominion and its partner...

Nearly three million companies in Latin America and the Caribbean will cease to exist due to measures taken amid the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic, according to a report by the United Nations Economic Commission for the Region (Cepal) on the effects of COVID-19. “The vast majority of companies in the region recorded a significant drop in their income and have difficulty maintaining their...

The wealth of the richest man in the world - Head of Amazon Jeff Bezos - jumped to a new historical record of $ 171.6 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index (BBI) rating. Thus, the previous record, achieved on September 4, 2018, was updated - then the wealth of Bezos totaled $ 167.7 billion. The agency notes that a new record was made possible thanks to a jump in the value of...

The British-Dutch company Royal Dutch Shell said that in the second quarter it could write off the value of its assets in the amount of $ 15 billion to $ 22 billion. The company attributed this decision to consequences of the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic, a slowdown in economic activity, and lower energy prices. The write-off of the value of assets will fall on three segments of Shell's...

Chinese oil giants are in talks to create a group that could become the largest oil buyer in the world. At first, they intend to jointly acquire Russian and African oil. Major Chinese oil refineries are in talks to create a group to jointly buy oil, sources familiar with the initiative told Bloomberg. According to them, negotiations are already at an advanced stage, and top managers are...