{"id":1027861,"date":"2026-08-11T07:50:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T02:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1027861"},"modified":"2026-08-11T07:53:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T02:23:08","slug":"gamestop-weighing-withdrawal-of-ebay-bid-bloomberg-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/11\/gamestop-weighing-withdrawal-of-ebay-bid-bloomberg-news\/","title":{"rendered":"GameStop weighing withdrawal of eBay bid: Bloomberg News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>GameStop CEO Ryan Cohen is considering withdrawing the videogame retailer&#8217;s $56 billion bid for eBay and may instead pursue a partnership or joint venture with the e-commerce company, Bloomberg News reported on Monday, citing people familiar with the matter. <\/p>\n<p>Cohen is considering a proposal that would allow eBay to leverage GameStop&#8217;s \u200croughly 1,600 \u2060U.S. \u2060retail locations, potentially helping both companies expand market share in higher-margin categories such as trading \u200bcards and collectibles, the report said. As part of any partnership, GameStop would seek seats \u200bon eBay&#8217;s board, Bloomberg reported. GameStop shares were up 2%, while those of eBay fell 1.4% in premarket trading.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GameStop CEO Ryan Cohen is considering withdrawing the videogame retailer&#8217;s $56 billion bid for eBay and may instead pursue a partnership or joint venture with the e-commerce company, Bloomberg News reported on Monday, citing people familiar with the matter. Cohen is considering a proposal that would allow eBay to leverage GameStop&#8217;s \u200croughly 1,600 \u2060U.S. \u2060retail locations, potentially helping both companies expand market share in higher-margin categories such as trading \u200bcards and collectibles, the report said. As part of any partnership, GameStop would seek seats \u200bon eBay&#8217;s board, Bloomberg reported. GameStop shares were up 2%, while those of eBay fell 1.4% [&hellip;]<\/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":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1027861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027861","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=1027861"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027861\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1027884,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027861\/revisions\/1027884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1027861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1027861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1027861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}