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Microsoft eyeing Nintendo: report
BERLIN (AFP) Aug 04, 2004
US software giant Microsoft is interested in buying Japanese video games group Nintendo, German magazine Wirtschaftswoche reported Wednesday.

Microsoft co-founder and chairman Bill Gates told the weekly on the sidelines of a conference with analysts in the United States that he would immediately make an offer if Nintendo's majority shareholder, billionaire Hiroshi Yamauchi, were ready to sell.

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