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Microsoft To Buy BigPark

Gregory T. Huang 5/7/09

Microsoft announced today it plans to acquire Vancouver, BC-based BigPark, an interactive online gaming company. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. BigPark will become part of Microsoft Game Studios. The company was co-founded by Hanno Lemke and Don Mattrick, senior vice president of Microsoft’s Interactive Entertainment Business.

Gregory T. Huang is the Editor of Xconomy Seattle. You can e-mail him at gthuang@xconomy.com or call 206-624-2249.


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