Activision Buys ‘Candy Crush’ Firm for $5.6 Billion

Financial Times: Activision Blizzard has agreed to acquire King Digital Entertainment, the London-based group behind the hugely popular “Candy Crush Saga” mobile games, in a $5.9 billion deal that would be the biggest takeover of a U.K.-based tech company since HP acquired Autonomy for $11 billion four years ago. Activision is paying a huge sum for one of the largest communities of mobile gamers in the world.