{"id":15074,"date":"2015-04-15T12:12:57","date_gmt":"2015-04-15T17:12:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=15074"},"modified":"2015-04-15T12:12:57","modified_gmt":"2015-04-15T17:12:57","slug":"nokia-agrees-to-16-6-billion-takeover-of-alcatel-lucent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=15074","title":{"rendered":"Nokia Agrees to $16.6 Billion Takeover of Alcatel-Lucent"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p id=\"story-continues-1\" class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"192\" data-total-count=\"192\">LONDON \u2014 The Finnish telecommunications company <a class=\"meta-org\" title=\"More information about Nokia Oyj\" href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/news\/business\/companies\/nokia_corporation\/index.html?inline=nyt-org\">Nokia<\/a> said on Wednesday that it had agreed to an all-stock deal to acquire <a class=\"meta-org\" title=\"More information about Alcatel-Lucent\" href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/news\/business\/companies\/lucent_technologies\/index.html?inline=nyt-org\">Alcatel-Lucent<\/a> that valued its French rival at about $16.6 billion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"233\" data-total-count=\"425\">The combined company is expected to become the world\u2019s second-largest telecom equipment manufacturer, behind Ericsson of Sweden, with global revenues totaling $27 billion and operations spread across Asia, Europe and North America.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/04\/16\/business\/dealbook\/nokia-and-alcatel-lucent-takeover-deal-announced.html\">Nokia Agrees to $16.6 Billion Takeover of Alcatel-Lucent &#8211; NYTimes.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON \u2014 The Finnish telecommunications company Nokia said on Wednesday that it had agreed to an all-stock deal to acquire Alcatel-Lucent that valued its French rival at about $16.6 billion. The combined company is expected to become the world\u2019s second-largest &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=15074\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[580,992,306,673],"class_list":["post-15074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","tag-acquisitions","tag-alcalu","tag-equipment-provider","tag-nokia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15074"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15074\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15075,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15074\/revisions\/15075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}