{"id":28306,"date":"2012-03-16T20:48:14","date_gmt":"2012-03-17T00:48:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/countingpips.com\/fx\/?p=28306"},"modified":"2012-03-16T20:48:14","modified_gmt":"2012-03-17T00:48:14","slug":"cisco-purchases-nds-group-for-5-billion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/2012\/03\/16\/cisco-purchases-nds-group-for-5-billion\/","title":{"rendered":"Cisco Purchases NDS Group for $5 Billion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div id=\"grabDiv1767162\"><object id=\"GrabPlayer1767162\" width=\"542\" height=\"304\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" align=\"middle\" data=\"http:\/\/player.grabnetworks.com\/swf\/GrabOSMFPlayer.swf?id=1767162&#038;content=ve6d137d8b817e8b514b314ba04c300cf7c692262&#038;tgt=grabnetworks\"><param name=\"quality\" value=\"high\"\/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\"\/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"\/><param name=\"menu\" value=\"false\"\/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"\/><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/player.grabnetworks.com\/swf\/GrabOSMFPlayer.swf?id=1767162&#038;content=ve6d137d8b817e8b514b314ba04c300cf7c692262&#038;tgt=grabnetworks\"\/><\/object><\/p>\n<div id=\"overlay-adzone\" style=\"overflow:hidden; position:relative\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Cisco (NASDAQ:CSCO) announced early Thursday morning that they are purchasing NDS Group for $5 billion. The deal is expected to close sometime in the second half of the year.NDS Group is a supplier of video software and content security products based in London.Cisco Systems (NASDAQ:CSCO) has potential upside of 14.7% based on a current price of $20.19 and an average consensus analyst price target of $23.16.Cisco Systems is currently above its 50-day moving average (MA) of $19.74 and above its 200-day of $17.37.<\/p>\n<p><img src='http:\/\/cache.thenewsroom.com\/financial_news_network\/2012\/03\/16\/1_f7c5lu0x_thumb.jpg' \/><\/p>\n<p><!--post_img[http:\/\/cache.thenewsroom.com\/financial_news_network\/2012\/03\/16\/1_f7c5lu0x_preview.jpg]--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cisco (NASDAQ:CSCO) announced early Thursday morning that they are purchasing NDS Group for $5 billion. The deal is expected to close sometime in the second half of the year.NDS Group is a supplier of video software and content security products based in London.Cisco Systems (NASDAQ:CSCO) has potential upside of 14.7% based on a current price &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/2012\/03\/16\/cisco-purchases-nds-group-for-5-billion\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Cisco Purchases NDS Group for $5 Billion&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28306\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}