Bloomberg: Microsoft in Talks to Buy Discord For Over $10 Billion - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 08 May 2021 / 2,293 Views
Microsoft is in talks with Discord to acquire the company for more than $10 billion, according to sources familiar with the matter who spoke with Bloomberg.
Discord has reached out to potential buyers and Microsoft is one of them. The sources say a deal is not imminent, while one of them says it is more likely Discord will go public than sell itself.
Microsoft and Discord representatives declined to comment.
VentureBeat reported earlier that Discord was in talks to sell itself. Their sources say there is interest from multiple companies that want to buy Discord. One source said Discord has signed an exclusive acquisition discussion with one company.
"I know they are in active discussions with a select few parties," one source told VentureBeat. "The market is in a state where they could command strong double-digit billions of dollars."
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Please no.
Embrace your new Microsoft overlord Alchy. It's only a matter of time.
Oh boy, here we go again. They bought Skype, and basically messed around with that so much I got put off it, just around the time Discord showed up.
Really would prefer Discord remaining not in the hands of any of the big 3, as I cannot trust any of them to not muck it up.
Hope they have a pretty hands off approach if this happens
With a market cap of 1.78Trillion... This would be chump change for Microsoft.
Well aware.
It's their "perceived" value by the stock market and it does make securing financing from banks stupidly easy if you have a high market cap.
In saying that, they have an annual revenue of $143 billion with $130 billion in cash on hand... And over $300 billion in assets to draw from... So $10 billion is still absolutely chump change for the company, especially with $1.78 trillion in stock market valuation to draw and gain finance from.
Idk about this one. MS doesn't have a great reputation with purchases like these........a big IF this deal goes through, it would be great if it became the default voice chat for Xbox Live. I play on PC and I have some friends and family that only use Xbox. I can play some games with them but I have to use the built-in Xbox voice chat functionality in Windows 10 and it is TERRIBLE! It would be awesome if you could say link your Xbox Live account to your discord and you can then voice chat with your Xbox friends just through regular discord on PC.
I'd rather this not happen in the overall scheme of things though as that's just one scenario. I can see it becoming another Skype, MSN, and Mixer situation. Discord should go public rather than be bought by one of the big tech companies.
Well, don’t know about this one. It could turn out to be the next Twitch.
10 Billion USD seems overpriced, but apparently it was valued 7 billion USD just last year.
Curious to know who the other buyers are. Whats with all these companies going up for sale.
But what benefits does MS make since they already own Skpye and partner with FB with Twitch since Mixer went bankrupt.
Enticing more users to their programs and buying out the competition.
Essay Pro