{"id":747593,"date":"2013-04-22T11:25:47","date_gmt":"2013-04-22T15:25:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bgr.com\/?p=456660"},"modified":"2013-04-22T11:25:47","modified_gmt":"2013-04-22T15:25:47","slug":"activist-investors-2-billion-microsoft-stake-could-put-ballmer-on-the-hot-seat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/747593","title":{"rendered":"Activist investor\u2019s $2 billion Microsoft stake could put Ballmer on the hot seat"},"content":{"rendered":"<center><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/04\/22\/valueact-microsoft-investment-456660\/\" class=\"bgr-rss-featured-image bgr-rss-test-class\"><img src=\"http:\/\/i0.wp.com\/boygeniusreport.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/04\/ballmer-6.png?resize=610%2C436\" class=\"attachment-feed_normal wp-post-image\" alt=\"Activist investor&#039;s $2 billion stake in Microsoft could put Ballmer on the hot seat\" title=\"Steve Ballmer\" width=\"610\" height=\"436\" \/><\/a><\/center>While <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/01\/03\/microsoft-criticism-steve-ballmer-280491\/\">Steve Ballmer's job\u00a0is still safe for now<\/a>, a major new investment from an activist hedge fund could put pressure on <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/microsoft\">Microsoft's<\/a> chief executive to significantly boost shareholder value or risk coming under greater scrutiny. <a href=\"http:\/\/video.cnbc.com\/gallery\/?play=1&amp;video=3000163240\"><em>CNBC's<\/em>\u00a0David Faber on Monday reported<\/a> that hedge fund ValueAct has taken a $2 billion stake in Microsoft, which is likely large enough to make the firm one of Microsoft's 15 largest investors.<br \/><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/04\/22\/valueact-microsoft-investment-456660\/?utm_source=more-link&utm_medium=feed\" class=\"more-link\"><em>Continue reading...<\/em><\/a><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheBoyGeniusReport\/~4\/S6k2Lr0tNjE\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While Steve Ballmer&#8217;s job\u00a0is still safe for now, a major new investment from an activist hedge fund could put pressure on Microsoft&#8217;s chief executive to significantly boost shareholder value or risk coming under greater scrutiny. CNBC&#8217;s\u00a0David Faber on Monday reported that hedge fund ValueAct has taken a $2 billion stake in Microsoft, which is likely [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4809,"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-747593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-38tX","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747593","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\/4809"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=747593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747593\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=747593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=747593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=747593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}