{"id":1006919,"date":"2026-05-05T10:32:56","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T05:02:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1006919"},"modified":"2026-05-05T11:14:46","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T05:44:46","slug":"gamestop-targets-ebay-in-surprise-56-billion-takeover-proposal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/05\/05\/gamestop-targets-ebay-in-surprise-56-billion-takeover-proposal\/","title":{"rendered":"GameStop targets eBay in surprise $56 billion takeover proposal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>GameStop has made an attempt to buy eBay in a deal valued at about $56 billion. GameStop CEO Ryan Cohen sent a letter to eBay\u2019s board on Sunday and offered $125 per share in a deal split evenly between cash and stock. <\/p>\n<p>The offer values eBay at a premium of roughly 20% compared with the company\u2019s closing price on Friday. eBay closed on Friday with a market capitalization of about $46 billion, while GameStop stood near $12 billion, reported The Wall Street Jounal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GameStop has made an attempt to buy eBay in a deal valued at about $56 billion. GameStop CEO Ryan Cohen sent a letter to eBay\u2019s board on Sunday and offered $125 per share in a deal split evenly between cash and stock. The offer values eBay at a premium of roughly 20% compared with the company\u2019s closing price on Friday. eBay closed on Friday with a market capitalization of about $46 billion, while GameStop stood near $12 billion, reported The Wall Street Jounal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1006919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1006919"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006919\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1006942,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006919\/revisions\/1006942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1006919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1006919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1006919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}