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  2. List of best-selling PC games - Wikipedia

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    If a game was released on multiple platforms, the sales figures list are only for PC sales. This list is not comprehensive because sales figures are not always publicly available. Subscription figures for massively multiplayer online games such as Flight Simulator or Lineage and number of accounts from free-to-play games such as Hearthstone are ...

  3. Venture capital - Wikipedia

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    Venture capital (VC) is a form of private equity financing provided by firms or funds to startup, early-stage, and emerging companies, that have been deemed to have high growth potential or that have demonstrated high growth in terms of number of employees, annual revenue, scale of operations, etc. Venture capital firms or funds invest in these early-stage companies in exchange for equity, or ...

  4. List of mergers and acquisitions by Microsoft - Wikipedia

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    Hotmail, a free webmail service founded in 1996 by Jack Smith and Sabeer Bhatia, [4] had more than 8.5 million subscribers earlier that month. [5] In 1999, Microsoft reportedly discussed a buyout of Nintendo. However, execs failed to negotiate a deal, with Xbox co-inventor Kevin Bachus explaining "They just laughed their asses off." [6] [7] [8]

  5. Free-to-play - Wikipedia

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    Free-to-play ( F2P or FtP) video games are games that give players access to a significant portion of their content without paying or do not require paying to continue playing. Free-to-play is distinct from traditional commercial software, which requires a payment before using the game or service. It is also separate from freeware games, which ...

  6. Tencent - Wikipedia

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    Tencent Holdings Ltd. (Chinese: 腾讯; pinyin: Téngxùn) is a Chinese multinational technology conglomerate and holding company headquartered in Shenzhen.It is one of the highest grossing multimedia companies in the world based on revenue.

  7. Xbox Game Pass - Wikipedia

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    Website. xbox .com /xbox-game-pass. Game Pass is a subscription service as part of Xbox and offered by Microsoft Gaming. Launched on June 1, 2017, the service allows users to download and play video games for Xbox video game consoles or Microsoft Windows PCs from a rotating library, with the games remaining accessible as long as the user has an ...

  8. Mark Zuckerberg - Wikipedia

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    Mark Elliot Zuckerberg ( / ˈzʌkərbɜːrɡ /; born May 14, 1984) is an American businessman. He co-founded the social media service Facebook and its parent company Meta Platforms (formerly Facebook, Inc.), of which he is chairman, chief executive officer and controlling shareholder. Zuckerberg has been the subject of multiple lawsuits ...

  9. Blackstone Inc. - Wikipedia

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    Blackstone was founded in 1985 by Peter G. Peterson and Stephen A. Schwarzman with US$400,000 (equivalent to $1.1 million in 2023) in seed capital. [3]: 45–56 [4] The founders named their firm "Blackstone" using a cryptogram derived from their names: "Schwarz" is German for "black"; "Peter", "Petros" or "Petra" (Πέτρος and πετρα, the masculine and feminine rendering of the word ...