{"id":5663,"date":"2013-02-03T19:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-02-03T19:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/2529461"},"modified":"2013-02-03T19:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-02-03T19:00:00","slug":"microsoft-called-a-sticking-point-in-dell-buyout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/microsoft-called-a-sticking-point-in-dell-buyout\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Called a \u2018Sticking Point\u2019 in Dell Buyout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Financial Times claims that Silver Lake\u2019s buyout offer for Dell has gone to $15 a share, up from somewhere between $13 and $14.25, if a tablet-induced leveraged buyout can be put together.<br \/>\nBarron\u2019s thinks large stockholders are pressing for $20 and the Wall Street Journal says Microsoft\u2019s role in the affair is a \u201csticking point\u201d and \u201cone of several issues being hashed out ahead of a final buyout agreement.\u201d<br \/>\nMicrosoft has offered to kick in $2 billion or more for equity in the form of convertible preferred securities to take Dell private and is expected to have a say in Dell operations.<br \/>\nThe parties are evidently trying to figure how big a sway Redmond would have. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/2529461\" >read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Financial Times claims that Silver Lake\u2019s buyout offer for Dell has gone to $15 a share, up from somewhere between $13 and $14.25, if a tablet-induced leveraged buyout can be put together.<br \/>\nBarron\u2019s thinks large stockholders are pressing for $20&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5663\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}