"I think the most important M&A deal of 2022 was when Penn Gaming bought Barstool Sports because it shows that every consumer package good or every consumer services business ultimately needs to be a content business."
"The acquisition season in the gaming industry has continued." - Noting ongoing trends in industry consolidation.
"The only option the management at Sam Bankman-Freed's firm had was to buy out CZ."
"The big winners of Elon Musk not buying Twitter are truth and getter."
"Twitter needs to buy Sub stack. Sub stack should never be an independent business."
"PlayStation must buy Rockstar from Take Two. It's the only thing that can match Call of Duty."
"We need to respond because Xbox has bought everybody."
"Franchises like Call of Duty, Warcraft, Candy Crush, and more will be joining Team Xbox."
"Sony at some point is going to reveal a major studio acquisition." - Foxy Games_UK
"It's a very powerful thing for a company to be able to use stock as currency to make some bargain basement acquisitions."
"Billions upon billions upon billions of dollars on acquisition after acquisition but never seem to achieve anything."
"I think there's going to be a lot more acquisitions in the sector."
"Instagram arguably the best technology acquisition of the last decade."
"Get woke, go broke, or in the case of Twitter and Warner Brothers, get woke, get taken over."
"Sony acquiring insomniac games... supersedes all the little scoops."
"One of the first acquisitions that Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella made was Minecraft back in September 2014, and what we've done with that acquisition is a clear indicator of what we hope to do if we acquire Activision Blizzard."
"Just saying, 'Hey, that group over there, we should buy them,' it's gotta be so much fun."
"Unity goes out and does an acquisition of a project or company called Weta... the move has a potential to shake up the making of both games and films."
"And it could be positive. You'll see they'll obviously buy these studios, they've got now, bloody Square, what's it called, Ido's, they've got, um, Crystal Dynamics, all these mad studios can turn out Lord of the Rings and do it justice, positive."
"He's almost like a big company that's doing roll-ups or acquisitions, but the acquisitions are actually political staff."
"PlayStation is on a buying frenzy. They are making big moves."
"The astronomical European deal and five U.S. acquisitions will also help them get there."
"Don't act like PlayStation didn't buy those 17 Studios because they absolutely did."
"... if you have to get a new car, a new device, this is a great month especially as May goes on."
"If Warren could do a $100 billion acquisition, I think that made sense, you know, he would love to do that."
"The 1901 sale of Carnegie steel to JP Morgan for an astonishing $480 million was more than just a business transaction."
"And that was a very cool estate sale."
"Some of the biggest names in gaming have just acquired dozens of smaller game studios."
"Buy and build means you use your understanding of capital markets M&A and you either acquire projects or mines or you build them or both at the same time."
"I'm proud of a lot of the decisions that were made, certainly the acquisitions. Probably Pixar because it was the first."
"The reason Cisco acquires Splunk HP just acquired Juniper is because they see writing on the wall."
"I'm having one of those really happy moments right now I have new squishmallows new fidgets and now I have like a trillion new slimes."
"He did buy Kleberson and Djemba-Djemba."
"The Nets have added yet another former All-Star."
"I'm getting ready to score a goddamn $50,000 Jeep, bro. You know how excited I am right now?"
"We're actually shopping for a new chase boat at the moment. We actually went on a few boats, so, you know, we always upgrading."
"Both the acquirer and the target see high stock returns with cash rather than stock offers."
"They've made 235 acquisitions and none of them actually were successful."
"We went to a plant auction a couple of years ago. Quite well, we bought some job lots of certain items."
"Once companies start to grow through acquisitions, they cannot go back to picking one project at a time. Hundreds of projects you do, one big acquisition, looks like you've jumped the queue."
"That's some big moves. Yeah, congratulations to the Commanders, thinking about the future."
"The real winner in this is Microsoft because... now Microsoft gets to essentially acquire them for nothing."
"They go JPP, Gerald McCoy, Vito Vea, Vinny Curry and I don't think they're done yet."
"Acquisitions can make it happen for you."
"... these are really gonna make some great additions to my collection."
"They did the craziest thing though is that in this Greenfield Village because Henry Ford had more money than God he just bought everything cool."
"Apple could buy Disney outright like right now and have no issues. Two hundred and seven billion dollars on hand, yeah that's just cash in the bank."
"The fact that we've not seen major acquisitions now is a reason to be bullish."
"If you're looking at acquisitions, you'd rather be the target than the acquirer."
"There seems to be no learning built into the process; 40 years after the first studies came out that acquisitions did not work, companies seem to keep making the same mistake over and over again."
"This company has proven that they know how to make good acquisitions over a long period of time."
"It's just nice to hear about an acquisition not a website shutting down."
"The majority of exits are through mergers and acquisitions rather than through IPOs."
"We've really done our homework and made the strategic acquisitions to provide you with a strong shield of protection."
"I'm a very careful acquisitions guy when I bring something into my collection."
"This is intellectual property... if you're looking to innovate... intellectual property Acquisitions can be a wonderful thing to do too."
"Let me know down in the comment section what you've been picking up recently."
"You announce an acquisition and I want to know, was that a good deal? Instantaneously, I get a picture of whether it was a good deal."
"Growth can exist either internally or organically, or can be done by the help of another business by taking it over or merging with it."
"If you're in the space of acquisitions, it's amazing."
"We are in a supercharged M&A cycle and it shows no signs of stopping anytime soon."
"When you grow externally by acquisitions, you get immediate access to all that data."