EA’s $1.2billion Codemasters acquisition is officially complete

Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorFacebook, the world’s biggest social media company, filed motions Wednesday to dismiss antitrust lawsuits brought by the Federal Trade Commission and state attorneys general.In coordinated suits filed last December, the FTC and more than 40 state AGs alleged Facebook acquired Instagram and WhatsApp in in violation of U.S. antitrust laws.

BuzzFeed announced that it will cut the size of the staff of HuffPost after it acquired the news site.

Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorCNN’s Jeff Zucker and Technicolor vice chair Melinda “Mindy” Mount have joined the board of directors of Group Nine Acquisition Corp., the blank-check company looking to roll up other digital businesses with Group Nine Media.Discovery-backed Group Nine, whose digital-media brands include Thrillist, NowThis, the Dodo and Seeker, formed the special-purpose acquisition corporation (SPAC) in late 2020.

Microsoft’s acquisition of ZeniMax Media and all of its subsidiary studios, including Bethesda Softworks.The news of the EU Commission’s decision comes just a day after it was announced that the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) had similarly approved the acquisition and merger between the two companies.In a statement on its website, the EU Commission said that “the proposed acquisition would raise no competition concerns, given the combined entity’s limited market position

Microsoft’s acquisition of ZeniMax Media, which will make Bethesda and a bevy of other studios part of the Xbox family.The SEC published a Note Of Effectiveness on Thursday, March 4.

Adele and Simon Konecki have officially finalized their divorce.

UTA has bought UK music agency Echo Location Talent Agency (Echo), expanding its recording artist roster on Brit shores.

Epic Games has announced its acquisition of Mediatonic’s parent company, Tonic Games Group.The announcement was made via a blog post on the Epic Games website today, March 3. Besides Mediatonic – best known for Fall Guys – Tonic Games Group also owns several studios such as Irregular Corporation and Fortitude Games.Epic Games has assured Fall Guys fans that “gameplay isn’t changing and Epic will continue to invest in making the game a great experience for players across platforms”.Per a separate

Matt Donnelly Senior Film WriterSelling independent films is a fraught business amid the chaos of the annual film festival circuit, but last year Legion M debuted an ace in its back pocket — hundreds of app users on smartphones, weighing on what titles were most likely to succeed.That’s how Film Scout was born, the app that lets a mix of public and industry users on the ground at events like Sundance rate titles they’ve screened.

Birthday suit! Seemingly always naked Chelsea Handler celebrated her 46th birthday on February 25 by taking a topless trip down the ski slopes. 

Olivia Rodrigo shows no sign of getting clamped, with Drivers License notching up a seventh week at Number 1 on the Official Irish Singles Chart.

Jennifer Lopez has properties around the United States, including a luxury penthouse in Manhattan.The Jenny from the Block hitmaker often goes back to New York, where she grew up, to visit her family, and when she does, she stays at her central apartment.MORE: Jennifer Lopez looks stunning in wedding dress in new photoJLo's twins Emme and Max have a number of bedrooms at their various homes, and like many other siblings, share a bedroom while staying in the city. VIDEO: Jennifer Lopez's twins

It’s funny, looking back at it now, when people were complaining a couple of years ago that Marvel Studios was going to become oversaturated and lose its audience. This was because the studio began releasing three films a year, with plans on making it four each calendar year.

Codemasters has confirmed it is investigating the crashing error which players on PS5 are experiencing in DIRT 5.In a tweet earlier today, Codemasters confirmed the CE-108255-1 error code is causing the issue. The crash boots players back to the PlayStation 5 home screen, closing DIRT 5 in the process.Hey everyone,We're aware that some PS5 players are experiencing crashes with the error code CE-108255-1 since the latest update and are investigating now.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefTed Farnsworth, the U.S. financier who set in motion the meteoric rise of MediaPass, and early TikTok investor Jaeson Ma, are behind a pair of moves which could create a new stock market-listed short video empire.Zash Global Media, which is backed by Farnsworth, Ma and Vincent Butta, have agreed plans to acquire Lomotif, a Singapore-based music video sharing firm.

TMZ, which says their source is calling the split "as amicable as a divorce can be."None of this comes as a shock, however, to those who have been following the pair's ups and downs, especially in the last year, when West tried and failed to run for President of the United States, and had a string of public outbursts that were attributed to his struggles with bipolar disorder.