The board has recommended that shareholders vote against AppLovins offer.

Unityannouncedtheir intention to merge with ironSource in a $4.4 billion (3.7 billion) in early July.

The merger was seen as acontroversial moveamong indie developers due to mass layoffs at Unity in June.

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ironSource is also known in the games development community for developing amalware installerin 2015.

That doesnt seem to have gone down very well with Unitys board.

This also caused just a bit ofcontroversy.