{"id":964740,"date":"2025-09-27T09:32:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-27T04:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=964740"},"modified":"2025-09-27T09:35:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T04:05:06","slug":"videogame-maker-ea-in-advanced-talks-to-go-private-at-roughly-50-billion-valuation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/09\/27\/videogame-maker-ea-in-advanced-talks-to-go-private-at-roughly-50-billion-valuation\/","title":{"rendered":"Videogame maker EA in advanced talks to go private at roughly $50 billion valuation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Electronic Arts, the videogame publisher behind titles such as &#8220;FC&#8221; and &#8220;Battlefield&#8221;, is in advanced talks to go private at a valuation of roughly $50 billion, according to sources familiar with the matter. <\/p>\n<p>A group of investors including private equity firm Silver Lake, Saudi Arabia&#8217;s PIF and Jared Kushner&#8217;s Affinity Partners could unveil a deal for the publisher as soon as next week, the sources said on Friday. If it goes through, the deal would mark the largest ever leveraged buyout in history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Electronic Arts, the videogame publisher behind titles such as &#8220;FC&#8221; and &#8220;Battlefield&#8221;, is in advanced talks to go private at a valuation of roughly $50 billion, according to sources familiar with the matter. A group of investors including private equity firm Silver Lake, Saudi Arabia&#8217;s PIF and Jared Kushner&#8217;s Affinity Partners could unveil a deal for the publisher as soon as next week, the sources said on Friday. If it goes through, the deal would mark the largest ever leveraged buyout in history.<\/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-964740","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\/964740","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=964740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964740\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=964740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=964740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=964740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}