[Oni]

Sounds like Microsoft is looking to acquire Discord, given fewer people are using Skype. Fun fact: eBay sold Skype for $2.75 Billion in 2009.

According to an overnight report from business and finance outlet Bloomberg, Microsoft is currently in talks to potentially purchase Discord Inc. for a reported $10 billion USD.

After speaking with "people familiar with the matter," Bloomberg reports that Discord was currently shopping itself around to numerous potential buyers, with Microsoft a clear front-runner to pick up the gaming communication company, which would give Microsoft ownership of the popular chat app, currently serving around 100 million users taken from multiple walks of life and industries, not just the video gaming sphere.

"Microsoft possibly acquiring Discord makes a lot of sense as it continues to reshape its gaming business more toward software and services," said Bloomberg's Intelligence Analyst Matthew Kanterman. "There's a big opportunity to bundle Discord's premium offering, Nitro, into the Game Pass service to drive more subscriptions from the last reported 18 million."

At the time of writing, this remains merely speculation. In fact, one insider claims that Discord is more likely to go public on the stock market, rather than outright sell itself to an independent corporation or conglomerate. Still, given that Microsoft has certainly not been shy when it comes to opening its wallet in the past year, it wouldn't be an impossibility that one of the biggest companies on the planet would want to continue adding to its portfolio.

After all, what's another Ten Billion Dollars?

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[Skullmeat]

They already have skype right? Why do they need discord? Oh that's right, because they bought it, turned it into a corporate communication tool, and promptly ran it into the ground for Joe Blow.

[mothered]

If Microsoft seals the deal, It'll be Interesting to see whether any changes are made to Discord's current terms.

[Drako]

The answer is as plain as day; They want to expand their empire so they can know as much about you as possible, and then promptly run Discord into the shitter with poor decisions and a terrible development team.

[Oni]

They already have skype right? Why do they need discord? Oh that's right, because they bought it, turned it into a corporate communication tool, and promptly ran it into the ground for Joe Blow.

It's a bizarre statement to make, but I might prefer Microsoft owning them. We didn't have to make an elaborate gesture of enforcing their terms of service, when we ran the Skype group. That could all change as the times have, though.

[biborg]

If you think about it, the new buzz app "clubhouse" is basically Discord audio channels wrapped in an invite only app (marketing purposes) so Microsoft buying Discord is genius in a way, not only to get exposure among the gaming community but to expand the endless possibilities of Discord in general. Now I'm curious if they will do some cross merging with Skype (since it's a dying product) but the way I see it, a lot of tech companies have cash just lying there, so they either buy back their stocks, buy some crypto (like Tesla) or in most of the cases buy another tech company to expand. Surprisingly the only company that is sitting on a load of cash is Apple, and they choose to make media content (movies, documentaries and series) instead of investing their cash. Go figure.