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(Bloomberg) – Niantic Inc., the company behind the 2016 hit Pokémon Go, is in talks to sell its video-game business to Saudi Arabia-owned Scopely Inc., according to several people familiar with the discussions.

Representatives of Niantic and Scopely declined to comment. Scopely is owned by Savvy Games Group, a subsidiary of Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund.

  • @CarmakaziEnglish
    53•3 days ago

    Saudi Arabia-owned Scopely Inc.

    Are they buying it for the business opportunity or the massive amounts of geolocation data to assist in kidnapping and murdering women and dissidents around the world?

    • @[email protected]English
      31•3 days ago

      to assist in kidnapping and murdering women and dissidents around the world?

      Gotta catch 'em all. Pokémon!

      The plot is right in the catch phrase.

      • @[email protected]English
        10•3 days ago

        to assist in kidnapping and murdering women and dissidents around the world?

        I will travel across the land Searching far and wide

        They even specified their tenaciousness