{"id":148261,"date":"2026-03-20T11:32:59","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T11:32:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=148261"},"modified":"2026-03-20T11:32:59","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T11:32:59","slug":"bytedance-sells-games-studio-moonton-to-saudi-firm-for-over-us6-billion-amid-pivot-to-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=148261","title":{"rendered":"ByteDance sells games studio Moonton to Saudi firm for over US$6 billion amid pivot to AI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Tech &#8211; South China Morning PostByteDance has struck a deal to sell its gaming studio Moonton to Savvy Games Group, a Saudi gaming company owned by the country\u2019s sovereign wealth fund, for more than US$6 billion, the two sides said on Friday.<br \/>\nMoonton, known for the popular online battle title Mobile Legends: Bang Bang, recently signed an agreement to sell to Savvy, owned by Saudi Arabia\u2019s Public Investment Fund, Moonton CEO Zhang Yunfan said in an internal memo on Thursday seen by the South China Morning Post.<br \/>\nA Savvy&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/tech\/article\/3347352\/bytedance-sells-games-studio-moonton-saudi-firm-over-us6-billion-amid-pivot-ai?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Tech &#8211; South China Morning PostByteDance has struck a deal to sell its gaming studio Moonton to Savvy Games Group, a Saudi gaming company owned by the country\u2019s sovereign&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148261"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=148261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148261\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=148261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=148261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=148261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}