Welcome to the Tech Mem Ride Home for Tuesday, March 23rd, 2021. I'm Brian McCullough today.

Microsoft is reportedly in talks to buy discord, but discord might just take itself public instead.

A ton of video game news including an Xbox rebranding, a new Neantic partnership with Nintendo,

and new rumors of that upgraded Nintendo switch.

A new consortium wants to take the pain out of browser compatibility

and Apple faces a class action lawsuit over those butterfly keyboards.

Here's what you missed today in the world of

tech. First, sources began to report late yesterday that discord was

exploring a sale of itself, seeking a valuation of $10 billion or so.

Then Bloomberg reported that it was Microsoft that was in advanced stages of negotiations

to maybe buy discord for about that

exact $10 billion target range but also that discord is maybe more likely to just

go public and test the waters itself.

Quoting Bloomberg, actually you'll note they're tempering their initial reporting here a bit.

Discord has been talking to potential buyers and software giant Microsoft is in the running,

but no deal is imminent, said the people who ask not to be identified because the discussions are private.

Discord is more likely to go public than sell itself, one person said.

Representatives for Microsoft and Discord declined to comment.

VentureBeat reported earlier on Monday that Discord was engaged in sales talks.

Microsoft, which last year sought to buy

social media app Tik-Tock and held talks to acquire Pinterest,

has been shopping for assets that would provide

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