{"id":746536,"date":"2013-04-15T10:45:05","date_gmt":"2013-04-15T14:45:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bgr.com\/?p=438999"},"modified":"2013-04-15T10:45:05","modified_gmt":"2013-04-15T14:45:05","slug":"why-a-dish-takeover-of-sprint-would-be-fascinating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/746536","title":{"rendered":"Why a Dish takeover of Sprint would be fascinating"},"content":{"rendered":"<center><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/04\/15\/dish-sprint-acquisition-analysis-438999\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" width=\"650\" height=\"450\" src=\"http:\/\/boygeniusreport.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/04\/sprint-sign-sky.jpg?w=650&#038;h=450&#038;crop=1&#038;resize=650%2C450\" class=\"attachment-feed_normal wp-post-image\" alt=\"Why a Dish takeover of Sprint would be fascinating\" title=\"Sprint\" \/><\/a><\/center>Pay-TV operator <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/04\/15\/dish-sprint-acquisition-bid-438774\/\">Dish has made a dramatic bid for Sprint<\/a> in an effort to elbow SoftBank aside. <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/04\/15\/dish-sprint-acquisition-bid-438774\/\">The company's $25.5 billion bid<\/a> is 13% above the offer SoftBank had made previously. What makes the situation so fascinating is the strong growth of mobile video consumption over the past year. In a recent interview with <a href=\"http:\/\/adgentdigital.com\/\">AdGent<\/a>, the advertising platform company pointed out that browser-based video viewing is now the No.1 activity on tablets, growing faster than app usage. In a separate interview, David Steinberg from XL Marketing remarked that mobile video ads now have roughly three times higher CPM than app ads.<br \/><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/04\/15\/dish-sprint-acquisition-analysis-438999\/?utm_source=more-link&utm_medium=feed\" class=\"more-link\"><em>Continue reading...<\/em><\/a><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheBoyGeniusReport\/~4\/qXla20EaySs\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pay-TV operator Dish has made a dramatic bid for Sprint in an effort to elbow SoftBank aside. The company&#8217;s $25.5 billion bid is 13% above the offer SoftBank had made previously. What makes the situation so fascinating is the strong growth of mobile video consumption over the past year. In a recent interview with AdGent, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4926,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-746536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-38cU","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4926"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=746536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746536\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=746536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=746536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=746536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}