GameStop’s $56 Billion Bid for eBay
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🗓️ 4 May 2026
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Bloomberg’s Caroline Hyde discusses GameStop's $56 billion offer to buy eBay, a company four-times its size. Plus, AI chipmaker Cerebras is looking to raise as much as $3.5 billion in its upcoming IPO. And OpenAI raises more than $4 billion for a new joint venture that aims to help businesses adopt its AI software.
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| 0:34.8 | Bloomberg Audio Studios, Podcasts, Radio News. |
| 0:47.4 | Bloomberg Tech is live from coast to coast with Caroline Hyde in New York and Ed Lovello in San Francisco. |
| 0:55.3 | This is Bloomberg Tech. Coming up, GameStop,'s eBay for $56 billion in cash in stock, |
| 1:00.7 | an audacious bid for a company four times its size. eBay says they'll review that offer. |
| 1:06.1 | Plus AI chipmaker Cerebrus has been looking to raise as much as $3.5 billion for a potential IPO later this month, part of a growing cohort looking to challenge in Vidiat. |
| 1:10.8 | An Open AI raises more than $4 billion for a new joint venture that aims to help to this month, part of a growing cohort looking to challenge Nvidia. |
| 1:15.7 | An open AI raises more than $4 billion for a new joint venture that aims to help businesses adopt its AI software. |
| 1:18.8 | And first we check in on that extraordinary M&A news. |
| 1:22.0 | The first dropped on Friday and continues to move shares now, GameStop looking to buy a company |
| 1:26.8 | four times its size. GameStop |
| 1:29.4 | currently off by 7% eBay up by more than 6%. But we have to get the inside track with Remaergo |
| 1:35.7 | reporter Cecilia D'Einastasio with an extraordinary story and one that the market tries to |
| 1:42.0 | understand whether it's for real or not. Can you just talk us about the technicalities of what Ryan Cohen here is offering for eBay? |
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