{"id":761,"date":"2011-03-09T01:25:55","date_gmt":"2011-03-09T00:25:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gennard.net\/blog\/?p=761"},"modified":"2011-03-09T01:25:55","modified_gmt":"2011-03-09T00:25:55","slug":"1-billion-reasons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gennard.net\/blog\/2011\/03\/1-billion-reasons\/","title":{"rendered":"One Billion Reasons.."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What can a company do with a 1 Billion USD?<\/p>\n<p>Well if you are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/news\/2011-03-07\/microsoft-is-said-to-pay-nokia-more-than-1-billion-in-deal.html\">Microsoft you can use this or more to ensure one of your competitors becomes a OEM vendor!<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is exactly what is said Microsoft did to influence Nokia to use their mobile offerings&#8230;  Which at first seems a bit of amazing turn around for Nokia given the amount of effort it has put into Symbian but I guess cash is king!  Good luck Nokia..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What can a company do with a 1 Billion USD? Well if you are Microsoft you can use this or more to ensure one of your competitors becomes a OEM vendor! This is exactly what is said Microsoft did to &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gennard.net\/blog\/2011\/03\/1-billion-reasons\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,39],"tags":[219,232],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gennard.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/761"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gennard.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gennard.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gennard.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gennard.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.gennard.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/761\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gennard.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gennard.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gennard.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}