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GameStop (NYSE:GME) shares rose 1. 4% in premarket trading to $22.

GameStop (GME) tried to buy eBay once already, and the answer was no. That rejection would have ended most takeover attempts. Cohen is not backing down. Instead, GameStop spent the following weeks building a bigger position and a stronger balance sheet, the opposite of what a retreat looks like. In ...

GameStop pledged on Friday to pursue its proposed ‌takeover of eBay, even after ‌the e-commerce firm rejected an unsolicited cash-and-stock offer ​of about $56 billion from the videogame retailer. GameStop CEO Ryan Cohen had surprised Wall Street with the offer to ‌buy eBay ⁠in May to turn it into a bigger competitor to ⁠Amazon. GameStop also expects to generate adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation ​and amortization ​of more than $600 ​million in fiscal ‌2026, compared with $345.4 million reported in fiscal 2025, it said in a regulatory filing.

GameStop Corp (NYSE:GME)'s board has scrapped a proposed CEO performance award after a request from CEO Ryan Cohen, who said he wants leadership focused on the company's operating performance and its pursuit of online marketplace eBay. The award, approved in January 2026, would have paid...

The proposed CEO Performance Award was a large stock option package for Ryan Cohen that GameStop’s board approved in January 2026.

Investing.com -- GameStop Corp. said Tuesday its board has approved Chairman and CEO Ryan Cohen's request to withdraw a proposed CEO Performance Award from the company's proxy statement as the retailer shifts focus to its planned acquisition of eBay Inc.

Ryan Cohen, the billionaire CEO of GameStop, will not receive a potential performance award from ‌the videogame retailer and plans to unveil more details ‌about his bid to takeover eBay soon, the company said on Tuesday. GameStop unveiled ​a compensation package worth roughly $35 billion for Cohen in January, hinging on a turnaround that requires him to lift the struggling company's market value more than tenfold and sharply boost its profit. EBay ‌rejected a $56 billion takeover ⁠bid from the much smaller GameStop in May, citing financing doubts and calling the proposal "neither credible ⁠nor attractive."

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Nuvei will buy cross-border payments firm Payoneer for about $2.75 billion in cash, the companies said on Monday, ‌as the Canadian fintech aims to expand globally. Nuvei will buy ‌all shares of Payoneer for $7.40 apiece, a premium of about 44% to their last ​close on June 8. Payoneer has a market capitalization of about $2.26 billion, according to data compiled by LSEG.

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The probe is the first phase of a review to see if the deal could hurt competition.

The UK competition regulator on ‌Monday launched a ‌probe into eBay's $1.2 billion purchase ​of Gen Z-focused fashion resale platform Depop from Etsy. The deal was ‌announced ⁠earlier this year and is expected to ⁠help Etsy double down on its ​core handmade ​and ​vintage goods marketplace ‌in pursuit of a turnaround. The firm has been grappling with softer demand and strong competition ‌from online ​e-commerce platforms ​such ​as Amazon.

Yahoo Finance's Julie Hyman takes a closer look at two of Wednesday's trending stories. GameStop (GME) reported first quarter earnings, posting its highest profit ever and growing revenue. IREN (IREN) stock is in focus after the company signed a deal to support an artificial intelligence (AI) data center campus in Australia.

Net income climbed to $389.6m from $44.8m, boosted in part by an unrealised gain on derivative asset of $268.4m, reflecting put and call option transactions linked to eBay common stock.

GameStop may not have successfully courted eBay but the retailer reported its biggest quarter on record. GameStop on Tuesday reported net income of $389.6 million, with operating income up to $143.3 million. The company said that’s the highest quarterly net income on record and its highest operating income in a first-quarter.

GameStop ‌on ‌Tuesday reported a ​14% rise in quarterly ‌revenue ⁠and said its ⁠board has ​approved ​a ​new $2 billion ‌share repurchase program. Shares of the ‌company ​jumped ​9% ​in ‌extended trading.

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GameStop CEO Ryan Cohen shared few details when he said he would do "whatever we need to do" to buy eBay after the e-commerce company rejected his $56 billion unsolicited takeover bid as "neither credible nor attractive." In early May, Cohen offered eBay's board $125 a share as well as his services as CEO. Half the offer was in cash and half in stock, with the cash portion ‌coming from GameStop's $9.4 billion in cash reserves.

GameStop asked its shareholders to approve an increase in its share count. The video game retailer made the request in a Friday letter to shareholders, in which the company's board also proposed giving its chief executive, Ryan Cohen, a 100% performance-based option award. "A reserve of authorized shares ensures GameStop can act decisively when the right opportunity arises," the company said in the letter.

Investing.com -- GameStop has increased its stake in eBay to approximately 6.6% from around 5%, according to a regulatory filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Wednesday.

GameStop has increased its stake in eBay to ‌about 6.55%, the videogame retailer ‌disclosed in a filing on Tuesday, days ​after the e-commerce company rejected its $56 billion takeover bid. GameStop previously owned around a 5% stake in eBay and ‌some analysts said ⁠its CEO Ryan Cohen could eventually push for a ⁠special shareholder meeting or seek board representation more supportive of his ​proposal. In an ​interview with journalist ​Piers Morgan last ‌week, Cohen had said eBay's board had a responsibility to engage with his offer in the best interests of shareholders, adding that "we'll do ‌whatever we need to ​do" if it failed ​to ​do so.

GameStop said in a filing last night that it now controls the equivalent of 6.55% of the company’s outstanding shares, up from around 5%, as it keeps trying to take over the e-commerce business. Shares in both GameStop and eBay are little changed in premarket trading.