{"id":7789,"date":"2012-03-14T13:20:59","date_gmt":"2012-03-14T13:20:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=7789"},"modified":"2012-03-14T13:22:46","modified_gmt":"2012-03-14T13:22:46","slug":"ericsson-to-acquire-technicolor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/telecommunications\/7789\/ericsson-to-acquire-technicolor\/","title":{"rendered":"Ericsson to acquire Technicolor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ericsson announced today (14 March 2012) that it has put in an offer to buy Technicolor&#8217;s broadcast services division for 19 million Euros.<\/p>\n<p>Technicolor is a provider of solutions for the creation, management, post-production, delivery and access of video for the Communication, Media and Entertainment industries.<\/p>\n<p>The intention of the acquisition is in line with Ericsson&#8217;s strategy to broaden its portfolio into the broadcast area, where it will apply its experience in telecom operations for the benefit of broadcasters.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As the TV industry is undergoing fundamental changes with the transition to multi-platform, on-demand television, teaming up with a trusted partner enables broadcasters to meet the increasing commercial and technological complexity and competition in the TV market,&#8221; said Ericsson.<\/p>\n<p>With this acquisition, Ericsson will broaden its managed services for media broadcasters.<\/p>\n<p>The closing of the acquisition is expected around mid 2012.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ericsson has announced that it has put in an offer to buy Technicolor&#8217;s broadcast services division for 19 million Euros.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":7799,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[185,25,1964,1965],"class_list":["post-7789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-telecommunications","tag-acquisition","tag-active","tag-erricsson","tag-technicolour"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7789"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7789\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7809,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7789\/revisions\/7809"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}