shares of ironsource ltd rose more than 12 in morning trading after unity software inc said its board has unanimously agreed that the 175 billion buyout offer from applovin corp is not in the best interests of shareholders and urged investors to back its buyout of ironsource the stock rose to 451 a share in morning trading still shares of the company which runs a platform for publishing and scaling mobile games and other apps are almost 42 lower so far this year unity on monday recommended shareholders vote against the applovin deal and instead vote in favor of unitys planned deal to buy ironsource for 44 billion a merger that was agreed upon last month ironsource said monday that it remains committed to its merger with unity and said it is confident it will create superior value for shareholders customers and employees shares of unity fell nearly 8 to 5384 a share and applovin stock dropped more than 6 to 34 a share write to will feuer at willfeuerwsjcom