Vivendi Reportedly Selling Off Majority Share of Activision Blizzard

<p>Vivendi—who holds a 60&percnt; stake in Activision— is apparently looking to sell off their shares of the gaming giant&period; <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;reuters&period;com&sol;article&sol;2012&sol;07&sol;09&sol;us-vivendi-activision-sale-idUSBRE8650SZ20120709">Reuters<&sol;a> have mentioned in a report that Vivendi have approached a bank to help them pinpoint potential buyers for Activision&sol;Blizzard and apparently&comma; some of the candidates happen to include Microsoft&comma; TenCent and Time Warner&period; TenCent is a major games distributor in China and are currently working with Activision on the upcoming free-to-play <em>Call of Duty&colon; Online<&sol;em> title for China&period; However&comma; Michael Pachter&comma; a Wedbush analyst stated&comma; &&num;8220&semi;none of these &lpar;potential buyers&rpar; make sense&period;&&num;8221&semi; He went on to say&comma; &&num;8220&semi;TenCent is the only one actively acquiring&comma; and they make much smaller acquisitions&period; Time Warner has never spent more than &dollar;150 million on game investments&period; Microsoft would lose a lot of value if Call of Duty was Xbox only&period; None of these are buyers&period;&&num;8221&semi; <&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>If the selling off of shares turns out to be true&comma; Vivendi could stand to make &dollar;10 billion by doing so&period; What are your thoughts on this situation&quest;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&lpar;Via <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;asia&period;gamespot&period;com&sol;news&sol;microsoft-among-potential-buyers-for-activision-blizzard-report-6386412">Gamespot<&sol;a> and <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;computerandvideogames&period;com&sol;357581&sol;microsoft-sounded-out-about-buying-majority-share-in-activision-report&sol;&quest;cid&equals;OTC-RSS&amp&semi;attr&equals;CVG-General-RSS&amp&semi;utm&lowbar;source&equals;dlvr&period;it&amp&semi;utm&lowbar;medium&equals;twitter">CVG<&sol;a>&rpar;<&sol;p>&NewLine;