yurinka
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Not really. This would help each part to be more focused on their own stuff, have less dependencies on the other ones and is more appealing to potential acquirers or investors who may only be interested in one or two of these parts.There has to be some tax or insider trading manipulation involved, that’s just dumb.
Regarding taxes, in some European countries they are different depending on their workforce size or revenue. In Spain it's considered big with over 250 people, medium having 50-250 people (and under 50M€/year), small 10-50 people (and under 10M€ revenue/year) and micro under 10 people. But that doesn't apply to the totality of a global corporation. It's applied instead to the local subsidiary, as in this case several development studios they have.
Meaning, regarding taxes I think there wouldn't be meaningful changes. Regarding trading what they did seems perfectly ok, just made their products more attractive to people who may put money on only a specific part of them.