{"id":814561,"date":"2025-09-29T00:59:50","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T00:59:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/esports.is\/?p=814561"},"modified":"2025-09-29T00:59:50","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T00:59:50","slug":"sadi-arabia-og-fjarfestar-nalgast-50-milljarda-dollara-kaup-a-ea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/esports.is\/en\/sadi-arabia-og-fjarfestar-nalgast-50-milljarda-dollara-kaup-a-ea\/","title":{"rendered":"S\u00e1di-Arab\u00eda og fj\u00e1rfestar n\u00e1lgast 50 milljar\u00f0a dollara kaup \u00e1 EA"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Electronic<\/a>
H\u00f6fu\u00f0st\u00f6\u00f0var Electronic Arts eru sta\u00f0settar \u00ed Redwood City, \u00ed Kaliforn\u00edu \u00ed Bandar\u00edkjunum.
Electronic Arts, oft kalla\u00f0 EA, var stofna\u00f0 \u00e1ri\u00f0 1982 af Trip Hawkins, fyrrverandi stj\u00f3rnanda hj\u00e1 Apple. Fr\u00e1 upphafi hefur fyrirt\u00e6ki\u00f0 veri\u00f0 lei\u00f0andi afl \u00ed \u00fer\u00f3un og \u00fatg\u00e1fu t\u00f6lvuleikja \u00e1 heimsv\u00edsu.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Samkv\u00e6mt n\u00fdjustu fregnum stendur bandar\u00edski leikjarisinn Electronic Arts frammi fyrir einni st\u00e6rstu vi\u00f0skipti leikjai\u00f0na\u00f0arins. H\u00f3pur einkafj\u00e1rfestingarfyrirt\u00e6kja, \u00fear \u00e1 me\u00f0al Silver Lake, \u00e1samt opinbera fj\u00e1rfestingasj\u00f3\u00f0i S\u00e1di-Arab\u00edu (PIF<\/a>), vinnur n\u00fa a\u00f0 \u00fev\u00ed a\u00f0 kaupa EA \u00ed heild sinni fyrir allt a\u00f0 50 milljar\u00f0a dollara, e\u00f0a um 7.100 milljar\u00f0a kr\u00f3na.<\/p>\n

Samkv\u00e6mt heimildum Wall Street Journal<\/a> g\u00e6ti samningurinn veri\u00f0 kynntur opinberlega strax \u00ed n\u00e6stu viku. Ef af ver\u00f0ur myndi hann teljast st\u00e6rsta \u201eleveraged buyout\u201c \u00ed s\u00f6gunni, en til samanbur\u00f0ar var meti\u00f0 hinga\u00f0 til yfirtaka Texas-orkufyrirt\u00e6kisins TXU \u00e1ri\u00f0 2007 sem nam 32 millj\u00f6r\u00f0um dollara.<\/p>\n

S\u00e1di-arab\u00edski sj\u00f3\u00f0urinn PIF hefur \u00e1 s\u00ed\u00f0ustu \u00e1rum lagt h\u00e1ar fj\u00e1rh\u00e6\u00f0ir \u00ed t\u00f6lvuleikjai\u00f0na\u00f0inn. Hann \u00e1 n\u00fa \u00feegar hlut \u00ed st\u00f3rfyrirt\u00e6kjum \u00e1 bor\u00f0 vi\u00f0 Nintendo, Capcom og Nexon, og \u00e1 alfari\u00f0 SNK, \u00fatgefanda King of Fighters.<\/p>\n

Yfirtakan \u00e1 EA fellur inn \u00ed \u201eVision 2030\u201c \u00e1\u00e6tlun S\u00e1di-Arab\u00edu sem mi\u00f0ar a\u00f0 \u00fev\u00ed a\u00f0 dreifa tekjugrunni r\u00edkisins fr\u00e1 ol\u00edu yfir \u00ed af\u00fereyingar- og t\u00e6knii\u00f0na\u00f0.<\/p>\n

\u00c1 sama t\u00edma hafa gagnr\u00fdnendur bent \u00e1 a\u00f0 fj\u00e1rfestingar PIF s\u00e9u hluti af svokalla\u00f0ri \u201esportswashing\u201c e\u00f0a \u201egamewashing\u201c stefnu, \u00fear sem yfirv\u00f6ld leitast vi\u00f0 a\u00f0 b\u00e6ta \u00edmynd s\u00edna \u00fer\u00e1tt fyrir gagnr\u00fdnda mannr\u00e9ttindaskr\u00e1 og einveldisstj\u00f3rn.<\/p>\n

Ef samningurinn gengur eftir mun EA hverfa af hlutabr\u00e9famarka\u00f0i og losna undan \u00fer\u00fdstingi hluthafa, en \u00e1 m\u00f3ti standa n\u00fdir eigendur sem vekja t\u00f6luver\u00f0ar si\u00f0fer\u00f0ilegar spurningar.<\/p>\n

Mynd: ea.com<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Samkv\u00e6mt n\u00fdjustu fregnum stendur bandar\u00edski leikjarisinn Electronic Arts frammi fyrir einni st\u00e6rstu vi\u00f0skipti leikjai\u00f0na\u00f0arins. H\u00f3pur einkafj\u00e1rfestingarfyrirt\u00e6kja, \u00fear \u00e1 me\u00f0al Silver Lake, \u00e1samt opinbera fj\u00e1rfestingasj\u00f3\u00f0i S\u00e1di-Arab\u00edu (PIF), vinnur n\u00fa a\u00f0 \u00fev\u00ed a\u00f0 kaupa EA \u00ed heild sinni fyrir allt a\u00f0 50 milljar\u00f0a dollara, e\u00f0a um 7.100 milljar\u00f0a kr\u00f3na. Samkv\u00e6mt heimildum Wall Street Journal g\u00e6ti samningurinn veri\u00f0<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":811818,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[150],"tags":[1200,603,1445,1444,1443,662,1446],"class_list":["post-814561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tolvuleikir","tag-capcom","tag-electronic-arts-ea","tag-fjarfestingasjodur-sadi-arabiu-pif","tag-king-of-fighters","tag-nexon","tag-nintendo","tag-wall-street-journal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/esports.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/esports.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/esports.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esports.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esports.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=814561"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/esports.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814561\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":814562,"href":"https:\/\/esports.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814561\/revisions\/814562"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esports.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/811818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/esports.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=814561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esports.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=814561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esports.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=814561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}