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STOCKHOLM/SEATTLE - Microsoft Corp has agreed to acquire the Stockholm-based developer of the wildly popular Minecraft video game for $2.5 billion, as it tries to lure a new and mostly young audience into its mobile world. (MOJANG-M&A/MICROSOFT (UPDATE 2), moved, by Mia Shanley and Bill Rigby, 904 words)