{"id":17879,"date":"2011-04-12T10:49:06","date_gmt":"2011-04-12T14:49:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=17879"},"modified":"2011-04-12T10:50:02","modified_gmt":"2011-04-12T14:50:02","slug":"cisco-to-close-flip-business-cut-550-jobs-take-300m-charge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2011\/04\/12\/cisco-to-close-flip-business-cut-550-jobs-take-300m-charge\/","title":{"rendered":"Cisco to close Flip business; cut 550 jobs; take $300M Charge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.forbes.com\/ericsavitz\/2011\/04\/12\/cisco-to-close-flip-business-cut-550-jobs-take-300m-charge\/\">Cisco to close Flip business; cut 550 jobs; <\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.forbes.com\/ericsavitz\/2011\/04\/12\/cisco-to-close-flip-business-cut-550-jobs-take-300m-charge\/\">take $300M Charge<\/a> <\/strong>&#8212; from Forbes.com by Eric Savitz<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Cisco Systems (CSCO) this morning announced a multi-part plan to revamp its consumer  business, including shutting down the Flip video camera business. Cisco  bought Pure Digital, the company that originally made the Flip, for $590  million in 2009. While the Flip line has admirers, the widespread  availability of video-capable mobile phones undermined demand for the  kind of simple stand-alone video cameras offered in the Flip business.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cisco to close Flip business; cut 550 jobs; take $300M Charge &#8212; from Forbes.com by Eric Savitz Cisco Systems (CSCO) this morning announced a multi-part plan to revamp its consumer business, including shutting down the Flip video camera business. Cisco bought Pure Digital, the company that originally made the Flip, for $590 million in 2009. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[354,84,393],"tags":[355,94,612,760],"class_list":["post-17879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-av-audiovisual","category-smart-classrooms","category-student-teachingteacher-education","tag-av","tag-lecture-recording","tag-smart-classrooms","tag-student-teachingteacher-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17879"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17879\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17882,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17879\/revisions\/17882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}