{"id":28921,"date":"2012-04-20T20:50:21","date_gmt":"2012-04-21T00:50:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/countingpips.com\/fx\/?p=28921"},"modified":"2012-04-20T20:50:21","modified_gmt":"2012-04-21T00:50:21","slug":"facebooks-zuck-is-ready-to-pull-the-trigger-on-strategic-acquisitions-fbibmaolmsft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/2012\/04\/20\/facebooks-zuck-is-ready-to-pull-the-trigger-on-strategic-acquisitions-fbibmaolmsft\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook&#8217;s Zuck Is Ready To Pull The Trigger On Strategic Acquisitions (FB,IBM,AOL,MSFT)"},"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=vbc5fffd4482e84fab1251116731a9778c5e267c7&#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=vbc5fffd4482e84fab1251116731a9778c5e267c7&#038;tgt=grabnetworks\"\/><\/object><\/p>\n<div id=\"overlay-adzone\" style=\"overflow:hidden; position:relative\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Facebook is apparently prepared to burn through a lot of cash these days as the social networking site has reportedly purchased patents from IBM (NYSE:IBM) recently and may have made a bid for AOL&#8217;s (NYSE:AOL) patent portfolio.Facebook&#8217;s bid for the portfolio was outmatched by Microsoft&#8217;s (NASDAQ:MSFT) $1.06 billion bid, however.Mark Zuckerberg has full control over how the company spends its cash, which was made very apparent by his decision to pull the $1 billion trigger on Instagram.<\/p>\n<p><img src='http:\/\/cache.thenewsroom.com\/financial_news_network\/2012\/04\/20\/1_09mpiy0e_thumb.jpg' \/><\/p>\n<p><!--post_img[http:\/\/cache.thenewsroom.com\/financial_news_network\/2012\/04\/20\/1_09mpiy0e_preview.jpg]--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook is apparently prepared to burn through a lot of cash these days as the social networking site has reportedly purchased patents from IBM (NYSE:IBM) recently and may have made a bid for AOL&#8217;s (NYSE:AOL) patent portfolio.Facebook&#8217;s bid for the portfolio was outmatched by Microsoft&#8217;s (NASDAQ:MSFT) $1.06 billion bid, however.Mark Zuckerberg has full control over &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/2012\/04\/20\/facebooks-zuck-is-ready-to-pull-the-trigger-on-strategic-acquisitions-fbibmaolmsft\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Facebook&#8217;s Zuck Is Ready To Pull The Trigger On Strategic Acquisitions (FB,IBM,AOL,MSFT)&#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-28921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28921","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=28921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28921\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}