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<br> <br><p>Microsoft announced this week that it's buying hugely popular recreation franchise Minecraft for $2.5 billion. For that cash, Microsoft will get rights to the sport and ownership of its Stockholm, Sweden-based growth studio, Mojang. It would not retain the corporate's founders or Minecraft's infamously outspoken creator, Markus "Notch" Persson.</p><br><br> <br><br><br><br> <br><p>Does that sound like loads, $2.5 billion? Effectively, it's in human dollars, but not so much when you're Microsoft and you've got $eighty five billion in "cash, cash equivalents and short-time period investments." No matter the fact that this week's deal only price Microsoft round three p.c of that, here's the true kicker (within the type of a statement from Microsoft): "Microsoft expects the acquisition to be break-even in FY15 on a GAAP foundation." Woof, that is a doozy of a sentence right there.</p><br><br> <br><br><br><br> <br><p>Here's the tr