{"id":8959,"date":"2010-08-31T17:11:58","date_gmt":"2010-08-31T21:11:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=8959"},"modified":"2010-09-02T09:17:30","modified_gmt":"2010-09-02T13:17:30","slug":"skype-to-be-purchased-if-so-what-happens-then","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2010\/08\/31\/skype-to-be-purchased-if-so-what-happens-then\/","title":{"rendered":"Skype to be purchased? If so, what happens then?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"yn-title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/afp\/20100830\/tc_afp\/usittelecominternetciscoskype\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Cisco seeking to acquire Skype: TechCrunch<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; Yahoo News<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">WASHINGTON (AFP) \u2013 <strong>US networking giant Cisco has made an offer to  acquire Internet communications firm Skype, technology blog TechCrunch  said Monday. <\/strong>TechCrunch, citing what it described as &#8220;one of our more reliable  sources,&#8221; said the San Jose, California-based Cisco is seeking to acquire Skype  before the Internet telephony company makes an initial public offering  or IPO.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;Google was also rumored to be sniffing around Skype,&#8221; TechCrunch said, &#8220;but antitrust concerns may have persuaded them not to make an actual  offer.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Addendum from 9\/2\/10:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2010\/09\/02\/technology\/cisco_skype_deal\/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Cisco\/Skype marriage would face a major hurdle<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cisco seeking to acquire Skype: TechCrunch &#8212; Yahoo News WASHINGTON (AFP) \u2013 US networking giant Cisco has made an offer to acquire Internet communications firm Skype, technology blog TechCrunch said Monday. TechCrunch, citing what it described as &#8220;one of our more reliable sources,&#8221; said the San Jose, California-based Cisco is seeking to acquire Skype before [&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,"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,195,367,189],"tags":[713,592,670,747,666],"class_list":["post-8959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-telecommunications","category-tools","category-vendors","category-videoconferencing","tag-skype","tag-telecommunications","tag-tools","tag-vendors","tag-videoconferencing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8959","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=8959"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9021,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8959\/revisions\/9021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}