AppLovin, a mobile app technology company, has made an offer to the developer of the popular game engine, Unity Technologies.
Unity is a popular cross-platform game development framework released in 2005. Thousands of Unity games run on over 25 different hardware platforms. The program has a user-friendly visual interface and a wide range of development tools. Unity is free to use as long as you don’t earn more than $100,000 per year from your game.
A potential buyer is offering to buy the company’s shares at $58.85 a share. The listed price is 18% higher than the value of Unity shares on Monday and 48% higher than their value on July 12.
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If the deal goes through, Unity shareholders will receive approximately 55% of the outstanding shares of the combined company. The total value of the deal is about $20 billion.
AppLovin CEO Adam Forugi believes that the combined company will have huge growth potential and generate more than $3 billion in profit by the end of 2024. The Board of Directors will be reorganized so that Unity can appoint a majority of its members in accordance with its economic interests.
AppLovin was founded in 2012 and operated privately until 2014. She sells and monetizes third-party apps, analyzes the market, and manages mobile game publisher Lion Studios.
The next major merger will continue a series of deals that will consolidate the gaming market. At the end of 2020, Microsoft agreed to buy ZeniMax for $7.5 billion, and in January 2021, Take-Two Interactive acquired developer Zynga for $12.7 billion. A week later, Microsoft announced the purchase of Activision Blizzard for $68.7 billion, in response to that Sony bought Bungie for 3.6 billion US and UK regulators are investigating Microsoft’s planned purchase of Blizzard for violations of antitrust laws and established legal practices.
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Source: tech spot
