{"id":42800,"date":"2009-11-16T09:38:32","date_gmt":"2009-11-16T14:38:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/?p=79836"},"modified":"2009-11-16T09:38:32","modified_gmt":"2009-11-16T14:38:32","slug":"cisco-yields-to-tandberg-shareholders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/42800","title":{"rendered":"Cisco Yields to Tandberg Shareholders"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='snap_preview'>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gigaom.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/11\/norway_headquarters1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-79835\" title=\"norway_headquarters1\" src=\"http:\/\/gigaom.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/11\/norway_headquarters1.jpg?w=150&#038;h=110\" alt=\"norway_headquarters1\" width=\"150\" height=\"110\" \/><\/a>Cisco said today it would up its offer to buy Tandberg to $3.4 billion &#8212; a boost of $400 million over its <a href=\"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/2009\/10\/01\/ciscos-3b-reason-to-love-tandberg\/\">original bid, made last month<\/a> &#8212; and said 40 percent of Tandberg&#8217;s shareholders have so far\u00a0accepted the deal (Cisco needs 90 percent). About two weeks after the networking giant offered to buy the Norwegian video conferencing equipment maker, a group of <a href=\"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/2009\/10\/15\/tandberg-shareholders-want-more-from-cisco\/\">shareholders protested<\/a>, saying the offer was too low. This new offer should placate those shareholders, one of which was a brokerage firm that at the time of the original announcement had a target value on the shares that was slightly lower than the per-share price Cisco is now offering.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/stats.wordpress.com\/b.gif?host=gigaom.com&#038;blog=1149864&#038;post=79836&#038;subd=gigaom&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OmMalik?a=JAGNBGjq_P8:3NsqYNELYns:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OmMalik?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OmMalik?a=JAGNBGjq_P8:3NsqYNELYns:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OmMalik?i=JAGNBGjq_P8:3NsqYNELYns:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OmMalik?a=JAGNBGjq_P8:3NsqYNELYns:F7zBnMyn0Lo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OmMalik?i=JAGNBGjq_P8:3NsqYNELYns:F7zBnMyn0Lo\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OmMalik?a=JAGNBGjq_P8:3NsqYNELYns:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OmMalik?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OmMalik?a=JAGNBGjq_P8:3NsqYNELYns:D7DqB2pKExk\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OmMalik?i=JAGNBGjq_P8:3NsqYNELYns:D7DqB2pKExk\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/OmMalik\/~4\/JAGNBGjq_P8\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cisco said today it would up its offer to buy Tandberg to $3.4 billion &#8212; a boost of $400 million over its original bid, made last month &#8212; and said 40 percent of Tandberg&#8217;s shareholders have so far\u00a0accepted the deal (Cisco needs 90 percent). About two weeks after the networking giant offered to buy the [&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-42800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42800","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=42800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42800\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}