{"id":195514,"date":"2025-09-26T19:25:52","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T19:25:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/26\/electronic-arts-will-reportedly-be-acquired-for-50b-techcrunch\/"},"modified":"2025-09-26T19:25:52","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T19:25:52","slug":"electronic-arts-will-reportedly-be-acquired-for-50b-techcrunch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/26\/electronic-arts-will-reportedly-be-acquired-for-50b-techcrunch\/","title":{"rendered":"Electronic Arts will reportedly be acquired for $50B | TechCrunch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p id=\"speakable-summary\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The video game company Electronic Arts is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/business\/deals\/ea-private-deal-buyout-video-game-maker-808aefec?gaa_at=eafs&amp;gaa_n=ASWzDAjRK7I8ei79VLSZTVts230RHeEvmMH68WCWtGEkpp9MM3rx6uQ0y1NmRMXq0IY%3D&amp;gaa_ts=68d6e79c&amp;gaa_sig=1VbOkUfOhxsfccyVG_M-gz9sCBTSGG8Lje065ec_FbmgVwnELuZ0mBafMEN_Ak1zcIroHtG-3rTi5XAvNKwqOg%3D%3D\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">nearing a $50 billion sale<\/a> to a group of investors including Silver Lake and Saudi Arabia\u2019s Public Investment Fund, according to a report from The Wall Street Journal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">EA is best known for its annual sports titles in franchises like Madden NFL, FIFA, and NBA Live, as well as video game series like The Sims, Battlefield, Need for Speed, and Star Wars.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to the Journal\u2019s report, this deal could be the largest leveraged buyout in history, meaning that the deal is mostly funded with debt.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After the news broke that EA could be going private, stocks jumped 15% on Friday afternoon.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2025\/09\/26\/electronic-arts-will-reportedly-be-acquired-for-50b\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The video game company Electronic Arts is nearing a $50 billion sale to a group of investors including Silver Lake and Saudi Arabia\u2019s Public Investment Fund, according to a report from The Wall Street Journal. EA is best known for its annual sports titles in franchises like Madden NFL, FIFA, and NBA Live, as well [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":195515,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-195514","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tech"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195514\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}