The Japanese electronics and entertainment company said it got a nice perk from a favorable currency rate.
Shares will be sold to Activision itself, which makes such games as "World of Warcraft."
ASML Holding NV says its net profit fell to €221 million in the second quarter.
Yahoo remained stuck in a revenue rut during the second quarter.
Samsung estimated its April-June operating profit at a record high of 9.5 trillion won ($8.3 billion).
Disgraced former Olympus chairman Tsuyoshi Kikukawa and two other executives receive suspended sentences for their role in an accounting fraud
France is giving Google three months to abide by the country's data privacy laws or be fined.
Scathing report states the Internet giant took on highly contrived arrangements to avoid paying its share.
Largest maker of online customer-management tools agrees cash bid for marketing software provider.
Facebook billionaire Sean Parker built a large movie-set-like wedding site in an ecologically sensitive area of Big Sur without proper permits.
