{"id":6437,"date":"2009-08-11T20:34:52","date_gmt":"2009-08-12T03:34:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/?post_type=news&#038;p=6437"},"modified":"2013-05-29T22:01:52","modified_gmt":"2013-05-30T05:01:52","slug":"ea-seeking-small-acqusitions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/ea-seeking-small-acqusitions\/","title":{"rendered":"EA Seeking Small Acqusitions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-8832\" alt=\"electronicarts-S\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/electronicarts-S.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"301\" \/>AUG. 11, 2009 \u2022\u00a0At the Pacific Crest Technology Leadership Forum in Vail, Colorado, Electronic Arts chief financial officer Eric Brown said the publisher was only looking at small-scale acquisitions in the future: &#8220;We&#8217;re just not interested in a large-scale, traditional packaged-good publishing deal.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><em>Impact: Finally, Electronic Arts seems to have its feet headed toward the future.\u00a0 DFC thought large-scale packaged good acquisitions would have gone out of favor two or three years ago.\u00a0 However, through a good portion of 2008, EA was looking to buy Take-Two Interactive for over $2 billion.\u00a0 Today Take-Two&#8217;s market value is under a billion dollars.\u00a0 EA is a leader in the packaged goods business and where they really to need to focus efforts on is becoming more competitive in online and emerging markets.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AUG. 11, 2009 \u2022\u00a0At the Pacific Crest Technology Leadership Forum in Vail, Colorado, Electronic Arts chief financial officer Eric Brown said the publisher was only looking at small-scale acquisitions in the future: &#8220;We&#8217;re just not interested in a large-scale, traditional packaged-good publishing deal.&#8221; Impact: Finally, Electronic Arts seems to have its feet headed toward the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6437"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6437"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8831,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6437\/revisions\/8831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}