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		<title>M&amp;A Recap: Zynga and Google Make Buys</title>
		<link>http://metue.com/06-03-2010/ma-recap-zynga-and-google-make-buys/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jun 2010 05:45:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Seth Gilbert</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Social gamer Zynga grabbed a lot of press lately.&#160; First the company re-upped with Facebook.&#160; Next it doubled down with  Yahoo.&#160;&#160; Now the company is expanding its  development operations with the purchase of Austin based Challenge Games.&#160; Challenge, which developed games like  Warstorm and Ponzi was backed by Sequoia Capital and Globespan.
In [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Disney Adds Gaming Talent with Purchase of Wideload</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2009 22:06:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Seth Gilbert</dc:creator>
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Mickey is looking for some new ideas and the talent to  develop them.&#160; He&#8217;s not scared to pay to  get either.
Just about a week after shelling out $4b to buy Marvel Entertainment,  Disney&#8217;s dug into its acquisition coffers again, this time to snag little known  game developer Wideload Games.
In a press [...]]]></description>
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		<title>38 Studios Swallows Up THQ&#8217;s Big Huge Games</title>
		<link>http://metue.com/05-27-2009/38-studios-big-huge-games-acquired/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2009 02:20:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Seth Gilbert</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As a pro baseball player, Curt Schilling made his mark as a  starting pitcher.&#160; Though there were a few  transitional years early in his career spent as a reliever, over twenty years,  the majority of time he entered a game, it was from the beginning.&#160; Schilling started 436 out of 569 games.&#160;In [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Square Enix Bids to Snag Eidos</title>
		<link>http://metue.com/02-12-2009/square-enix-merger-acquire-eidos/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Feb 2009 02:58:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Seth Gilbert</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On a day when Midway Games failed to find a buyer or new  capital, fellow publisher Eidos had better luck.&#160; The beleaguered  publisher, suffering its own financial woes, revealed new details on a buyout  overture first announced in early January.&#160; What was initially disclosed as an  unnamed suitor turns out to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Terms Announced: Live Nation and Ticketmaster Merger</title>
		<link>http://metue.com/02-10-2009/live-nation-ticketmaster-merger-approved-full-terms-quotes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2009 19:19:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Seth Gilbert</dc:creator>
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It&#8217;s now official. I&#8217;s dotted and T&#8217;s crossed on the  plan.&#160; Live Nation and Ticketmaster have  agreed to merge. The official press release (PDF) was issued this morning.&#160; Substantiating the early reports , here are  the facts from the press releases and conference call:
&#8226; The companies will combine in a tax free, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Live Nation and Ticketmaster Merger Gets Board Approval</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2009 10:15:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Seth Gilbert</dc:creator>
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For a long time, Live Nation and Ticketmaster were joined at  the hip.&#160; The nation&#8217;s largest concert  promoter and the nation&#8217;s largest ticket vendor formed an inseparable  pair.&#160; Then Live Nation, pursuing better  margins and greater ambitions of vertical integration, decided to go it alone.&#160; The tie was severed, with prejudice.&#160; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Billionaire Bailout: Inside the Times Co.&#8217;s New $250m Loan</title>
		<link>http://metue.com/01-21-2009/times-loan-slim-helu-details-sec/</link>
		<comments>http://metue.com/01-21-2009/times-loan-slim-helu-details-sec/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jan 2009 22:11:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Seth Gilbert</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Tribune Co. got into trouble, ultimately  seeking protection through bankruptcy, because it wasn&#8217;t able to sell off  assets fast enough, or at high enough prices, to service debt. The New York  Times, though carrying a far more management debt load, wasn&#8217;t going to risk  making similar mistakes.
The venerable media company, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Yahoo in Play Again? Rumor says maybe, reality says not likely</title>
		<link>http://metue.com/01-07-2009/yahoo-buyout-rumor-tech-crunch/</link>
		<comments>http://metue.com/01-07-2009/yahoo-buyout-rumor-tech-crunch/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jan 2009 05:34:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Seth Gilbert</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mark Twain famously quipped,&#8221;The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated.&#34; Executives at Yahoo may be ready to say the same thing about their company. No matter how much time passes, takeover rumors just won&#8217;t seem to go away; even ideas conceived way outside the box seem fair game.
Last month it was Velocity Interactive dubbed [...]]]></description>
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