{"id":7389,"date":"2011-04-26T19:09:39","date_gmt":"2011-04-27T02:09:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/?post_type=news&#038;p=7389"},"modified":"2018-07-24T20:39:51","modified_gmt":"2018-07-24T20:39:51","slug":"new-bigpoint-ownership-stake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/new-bigpoint-ownership-stake\/","title":{"rendered":"New Bigpoint Ownership Stake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-10136 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/bigpoint_logo-S-e1428383571680.jpg\" alt=\"bigpoint_logo_3d_v_rgb\" width=\"400\" height=\"217\" \/>APRIL 26, 2011 \u2022 Private equity firms TA Associates and Summit Partners will pay $350 million to Comcast Interactive Capital\u2019s Peacock Equity Fund, GMT Communications partners and General Electric to acquire a majority interest in Bigpoint GmbH in Hamburg, Germany. The online games company is thought to be valued in excess of $600 million.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><em>Impact: Given how well Bigpoint is performing as of late, that Comcast wishes to divest itself of the online game provider is more of a testament to the cable television giant&#8217;s more focused business model than any worry about Bigpoint&#8217;s future performance. In fact, Bigpoint is shaping up to emulate Blizzard Entertainment in being a very successfully managed game company owned by others.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>APRIL 26, 2011 \u2022 Private equity firms TA Associates and Summit Partners will pay $350 million to Comcast Interactive Capital\u2019s Peacock Equity Fund, GMT Communications partners and General Electric to acquire a majority interest in Bigpoint GmbH in Hamburg, Germany. The online games company is thought to be valued in excess of $600 million. Impact: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[123,280,78],"tags":[282,88,424],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7389"}],"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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7389"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16631,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7389\/revisions\/16631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}