Tag: Toys
Sony’s billion-dollar deal is heating up the fight for the screen
New York, San Francisco The battle for the gaming market has broken out. On Monday evening, the Japanese entertainment group Sony announced that it would swallow up the US game…
Bottlenecks at Ravensburger: flood of orders overwhelms puzzle manufacturers
puzzle Ravensburger puzzles are so popular that the family business cannot keep up with production. (Photo: dpa) Munich Ravensburger has its finger on the pulse with its jigsaw puzzles, board…
Buying game studios: Sony counters Microsoft deal
PlayStation booth at the Los Angeles Convention Center Playstation manufacturer Sony counters with its own takeover plan. (Photo: AP) San Mateo The gaming console heavyweights’ shopping spree is picking up…
Simba Dickie boss: Toys are becoming significantly more expensive
Munich The Bobby-Car turns 50 this year. But Florian Sieber doesn’t feel like celebrating. The boss of the Simba Dickie Group will increase the prices sharply in the coming months…
Are gaming stocks just for gamblers?
League of Legends The manufacturer Riot Games is completely owned by the Chinese tech giant Tencent. (Photo: imago/Le Pictorium) Dusseldorf The gaming industry is currently making headlines every week with…
Saudis take over ESL Gaming for $1 billion
Computer players at an ESL tournament in Katowice in 2019 E-sport is no longer a niche, but has a wide reach. Munich Mega deal in the German gaming industry: The…
Microsoft’s Monsanto moment
Microsoft buys Activision Blizzard Economically correct, but with a risk that is difficult to calculate. (Photo: dpa) If a company spends almost 70 billion dollars, the company knows what it…
The bad apple in the billion dollar deal between Activision and Microsoft
Bobby Kotick Because of the many scandals in his company, the manager is under public pressure. (Photo: imago/ZUMA Press) san francisco Bobby Kotick’s life’s work got a surprisingly big price…
Microsoft acquires Activision Blizzard for $68.7 billion
Microsoft The technology group has announced its largest acquisition to date. (Photo: dpa) Dusseldorf, New York The hardware and software group Microsoft is planning an economically gigantic takeover in the…
Take Two buys Zynga for $ 12 billion
Zynga headquarters in San Francisco The former star of the browser game industry has gambled back in the front row at the latest in the worldwide lockdown and the associated…
He Sold His Toys To Buy Bitcoin: Now That Child Millionaire!
A crypto trader shared how he became a millionaire after selling his toys to buy Bitcoin when he was just 11 years old. Dadvan Yousuf, 21, is currently the youngest…
The PS5 remains scarce this Christmas
A lack of chips leads to a lack of consoles A rare sight: the Playstation 5 is on the shelf in an electronics store. (Photo: Reuters) Tokyo If you want…
Apple gets a delay in app store changes in the US
App Store verdict Epic Games wanted to fight for the right to operate its own app store on the iPhone in court. (Photo: dpa) San Francisco Apple managed at the…
Prüfer’s column: Delivery bottlenecks – nice presents
Examiner’s column The author is a member of the editor-in-chief of “Zeit-Magazin”. I have the problem that Christmas is approaching, but at the same time the delivery crisis is on…
The video game boom remains unbroken even without a lockdown
San Francisco With the video game developer Zynga, the industry representative presented his figures on Monday afternoon (local time) who could probably look forward to the far-reaching end of the…
“Axie Infinity” is causing a crypto boom in emerging countries
Asia Techonomics In the weekly column, we alternately write about innovation and economic trends in Asia. (Photo: Klawe Rzeczy) If you want to visit the absurd excesses of the crypto…
From the wooden duck to the digital workshop
Frankfurt Building and programming robots, making anime films on a laptop or creating figures in a 3D printer – children between the ages of six and twelve learn all of…
Legal dispute between Apple and Epic Games enters the next round
Litigation The verdict against Apple is only a partial victory for Epic Games. (Photo: Reuters) San Francisco The legal dispute between Apple and the game developer Epic Games over the…
Apple has to relax rules in the app store for developers
Apple app store icon The group suffered a setback in court. (Photo: AP) San Francisco Apple has suffered a setback in the process with the game developer Epic Games over…