Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg considered paying billions for Unity: report


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  • Monday, 18 Feb 2019

Facebook CEO Zuckerberg acknowledged that the company needs to do more to restore trust, and ferret out misinformation and abuse. – AFP Relaxnews

LOS ANGELES: Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg once considered purchasing the popular game engine Unity, according to The History Of The Future, a new book by Console Wars author Blake Harris which explores the making of Oculus and the dramatic events surrounding its acquisition by Facebook. 

The proposed deal, code-named “One”, is detailed in a multi-page email from Zuckerberg to former Oculus CEO Brendan Iribe, Sheryl Sandberg and other Facebook leaders which outlines the advantages for investing billions of dollars into Unity over the next decade. The email is available in full on Scribd, via TechCrunch. 

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