Microsoft bought Minecraft for $2.5 billion to make sure it's around for the next hundred years (MSFT)

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By Matt WeinbergerOct 1, 2016, 12:09 pm417 pts
When Microsoft bought Mojang, the makers of the insanely popular Minecraft, in a surprise $2.5 billion deal in September 2014, nobody knew what to think. The game seemed an odd fit for Microsoft, whose biggest money-makers are its productivity software and Windows PC operating system. Minecraft's millions of…

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