传Nexon将收购EA！

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福布斯杂志报道，传闻棒子网游巨头Nexon将会收购EA，为此消息EA今天的股价上涨8.1%

EA目前的市值约为50亿美元。

Nexon出名的游戏有..........《冒险岛》

目前两家公司对于传言都没有发表评论。

Electronic Arts shares are trading higher Thursday morning on a report that apparently originated with a South Korean newspaper that said the South Korean online game company Nexon has made a bid for EA.

The rumor has been passed along this morning via a Bloomberg video report, among other places.

Not a lot to go on here just yet, but EA shares are responding strongly to the rumor: the game maker’s shares have spiked $1.22, or 8.1%, to $16.23. The stock lately has been trading close to a 52-week low, as it continues to struggle through a transition to switch more of its business to digital distribution and away from the traditional shrink-wrapped console game market.


EA has a market cap of about $5 billion.

Update: In the May 2012 issue of Forbes Asia, my colleague John Koppisch wrote a story about Nexon founder Kim Jung-Ju, who it turns out is now South Korea’s third-richest person; a year ago he was No. 9 on the list. He got a boost this year from Nexon’s December IPO in Tokyo. The story notes that Nexon expects revenue this year to be up 25% to $1.4 billion, with profits expected to rise 53% to almost $500 million. As the piece notes, Nexon was founded in 1994 as a provider of free online games.

The story notes that Nexon’s most famous game is Kart Rider, and that the company’s current top games are MapleStory and Dungeon & Fighter.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/ericsavitz/2012/04/26/ea-spikes-on-report-japans-nexon-makes-takeover-bid/