{"id":225774,"date":"2010-01-25T09:39:45","date_gmt":"2010-01-25T14:39:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.egmcartech.com\/?p=49585"},"modified":"2010-01-25T09:39:45","modified_gmt":"2010-01-25T14:39:45","slug":"live-gm%e2%80%99s-ceo-whitacre-holding-press-conference-later-this-morning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/225774","title":{"rendered":"LIVE: GM\u2019s CEO Whitacre holding press conference later this morning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.egmcartech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/edward_whitacre_wide_main_a.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"563\" height=\"334\" \/><\/p>\n<p>General Motors has just announced that its Chairman and CEO Edward Whitacre will host a press conference later this morning at 11:30 a.m. (EST). The short press release said that Whitacre will &#8220;provide updates on GM business activities.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re guessing one of those updates includes the progress on Saab&#8217;s sale to Spyker.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update<\/strong>: A source has told <em>Associated Press<\/em> that Whitacre, 68, will become permanent CEO of GM. The announcement will be made during the press conference later today. &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/35057728\/ns\/business-autos\/\">MSNBC<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>You can watch the press conference live after the jump starting at 11:30 a.m. (EST)<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-49585\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"560\" height=\"400\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/gm.pb.feedroom.com\/gm\/gm\/embedoneclip\/player.swf?Environment=&amp;SiteID=gm&amp;SiteName=General Motors&amp;SkinName=embedoneclip&amp;ChannelID=&amp;StoryID=a313dd015fa9a7af0b9de0c1898de6c36e3b324f&amp;Volume=.5&amp;videoratio=&amp;VideoPlayer.videoPlayer1.MaximumNumberOfStories=&amp;tilenumber=&amp;tilemargin=&amp;AutoPlay=false&amp;detailsheight=\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"560\" height=\"400\" src=\"http:\/\/gm.pb.feedroom.com\/gm\/gm\/embedoneclip\/player.swf?Environment=&amp;SiteID=gm&amp;SiteName=General Motors&amp;SkinName=embedoneclip&amp;ChannelID=&amp;StoryID=a313dd015fa9a7af0b9de0c1898de6c36e3b324f&amp;Volume=.5&amp;videoratio=&amp;VideoPlayer.videoPlayer1.MaximumNumberOfStories=&amp;tilenumber=&amp;tilemargin=&amp;AutoPlay=false&amp;detailsheight=\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8211; By: Omar Rana<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/5XXxPMx1AK2XqbxV_uqCEiLngqI\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/5XXxPMx1AK2XqbxV_uqCEiLngqI\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/5XXxPMx1AK2XqbxV_uqCEiLngqI\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/5XXxPMx1AK2XqbxV_uqCEiLngqI\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/egmcartech?a=pB37FNyMhlI:dGIKeaggvlw:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/egmcartech?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/egmcartech?a=pB37FNyMhlI:dGIKeaggvlw:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/egmcartech?i=pB37FNyMhlI:dGIKeaggvlw:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/egmcartech?a=pB37FNyMhlI:dGIKeaggvlw:gIN9vFwOqvQ\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/egmcartech?i=pB37FNyMhlI:dGIKeaggvlw:gIN9vFwOqvQ\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/egmcartech?a=pB37FNyMhlI:dGIKeaggvlw:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/egmcartech?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/egmcartech?a=pB37FNyMhlI:dGIKeaggvlw:TzevzKxY174\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/egmcartech?d=TzevzKxY174\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>General Motors has just announced that its Chairman and CEO Edward Whitacre will host a press conference later this morning at 11:30 a.m. (EST). The short press release said that Whitacre will &#8220;provide updates on GM business activities.&#8221; We&#8217;re guessing one of those updates includes the progress on Saab&#8217;s sale to Spyker. Update: A source [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-225774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225774\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}