{"id":73901,"date":"2011-06-18T22:49:49","date_gmt":"2011-06-18T22:49:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/151.106.38.4\/2011\/06\/18\/microsoft-gets-antitrust-approval-to-buy-skype-2\/"},"modified":"2011-06-18T22:49:49","modified_gmt":"2011-06-18T22:49:49","slug":"microsoft-gets-antitrust-approval-to-buy-skype-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/2011\/06\/18\/microsoft-gets-antitrust-approval-to-buy-skype-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft gets antitrust approval to buy Skype"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\/old_site\/>Microsoft has won US antitrust approval to buy the Internet phone service Skype, the Federal Trade Commission said in a website posting on Friday.Microsoft announced in May it was buying Skype for $8.5 billion, its biggest-ever acquisition, placing a rich bet on mobile and the Internet to try and best rivals such as Google Inc.<br \/>The approval was announced in a listing of deal approvals that comes out several times a week.<br \/>Microsoft\u2019s interest in the money-losing, but popular service highlights a need to gain new customers for its Windows and Office software. Skype has 145 million users on average each month and has gained favor among small businesses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has won US antitrust approval to buy the Internet phone service Skype, the Federal Trade Commission said in a website posting on Friday.Microsoft announced in May it was buying Skype for $8.5 billion, its biggest-ever acquisition, placing a rich bet on mobile and the Internet to try and best rivals such as Google Inc.The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73901\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}