Report: Vivendi still looking to sale Activision Blizzard; Sony not interested, Microsoft haggling price

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man-bear-pig said:

I just realised that for ~$1bn more Microsoft could actually buy all the shares in Sony...wow.

When you want to takeover a company, you need to offer a higher price than the actual market value, sometimes as high as 5 or 6 times the market cap if there is a bidding war.