{"id":747276,"date":"2013-04-18T21:55:08","date_gmt":"2013-04-19T01:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bgr.com\/?p=448551"},"modified":"2013-04-18T21:55:08","modified_gmt":"2013-04-19T01:55:08","slug":"sprint-sets-up-special-committee-to-evaluate-dish-offer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/747276","title":{"rendered":"Sprint sets up special committee to evaluate Dish offer"},"content":{"rendered":"<center><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/04\/18\/sprint-dish-proposal-special-committee-448551\/\"><img src=\"http:\/\/i1.wp.com\/boygeniusreport.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/04\/sprint-sign110831171754.jpeg?resize=610%2C436\" class=\"attachment-feed_normal wp-post-image\" alt=\"Sprint has reportedly set up a special committee to evaluate Dish&#039;s offer\" title=\"Sprint\" width=\"610\" height=\"436\" \/><\/a><\/center>Sprint's board of directors has set up a special committee to evaluate <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/04\/15\/dish-sprint-acquisition-bid-438774\/\">Dish Network's proposed $25.5 billion acquisition<\/a>, according to a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424127887324493704578430641315692514.html\">report from<em> The Wall Street Journal<\/em><\/a>. The company is also said to be looking to hire an investment bank to help it assess the offer. Dish's bid is a counter offer to <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2012\/10\/12\/softbank-sprint-acquisition-analysis\/\">Japanese carrier Softbank's planned merger<\/a> with the wireless company. Sprint's decision to establish a special committee shows that it is at least considering Dish's offer. Both deals involve cash-and-stock options, and while Sprint's board had initially backed Softbank's proposal, two significant Sprint shareholders recently voiced their support for Dish's bid, further complicating the planned merger with Softbank.<img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheBoyGeniusReport\/~4\/EAqdzf4XUkA\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sprint&#8217;s board of directors has set up a special committee to evaluate Dish Network&#8217;s proposed $25.5 billion acquisition, according to a\u00a0report from The Wall Street Journal. The company is also said to be looking to hire an investment bank to help it assess the offer. Dish&#8217;s bid is a counter offer to Japanese carrier Softbank&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4810,"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-747276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-38oQ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747276","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\/4810"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=747276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747276\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=747276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=747276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=747276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}