Rumor: "Microsoft will buy Epic Games for $1 billion this summer!"

[NJ5]

soccerdrew17 said:

NJ5 said:

PS3WiiXbox360 said:
Not if they are going to buy google for 40 billion

You mean Yahoo.

Don't worry about that, Microsoft has enough cash flow to be able to buy a $1 B company without any problem, even if they spend $40 B on Yahoo. The proposed $40 B deal is not even all in cash, half of it is in stocks, so Microsoft will just have to contract a small amount of debt (which it can pay back in less than a year if they want to).

If Microsoft wants to buy Epic, money will not be the problem.

 

i dont think ms would be in debt at all. im pretty sure they have a crapload of cash (i think like 35 billion) on hand.

also, does anyone remember the multi stage epic-sony deal? whats up with that?

http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/microsoft/archives/130975.asp

They have $21 billion in cash. They used to have $60 billion but paid off a big dividend to shareholders at some point - $3 per share. I wish I had had Microsoft shares at that time :O