{"id":29917,"date":"2012-08-16T06:57:41","date_gmt":"2012-08-16T10:57:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/countingpips.com\/fx\/?p=29917"},"modified":"2012-08-16T06:57:42","modified_gmt":"2012-08-16T10:57:42","slug":"video-carlyle-group-acquires-getty-images-for-3-3-billion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/2012\/08\/16\/video-carlyle-group-acquires-getty-images-for-3-3-billion\/","title":{"rendered":"VIDEO: Carlyle Group Acquires Getty Images for $3.3 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=vb7e05f0f82add69a4c5fb6efba65dbe188b25d26&#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=vb7e05f0f82add69a4c5fb6efba65dbe188b25d26&#038;tgt=grabnetworks\"\/><\/object><\/p>\n<div id=\"overlay-adzone\" style=\"overflow:hidden; position:relative\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Caryle Group (NYSE:CG) making a big acquisition today to expand its ever growing portfolio. The private equity firm announced an agreement to buy photo archive Getty Images for $3.3 billion from Hellman &#038; Friedman. The agreement with give Caryle a controlling stake in the company with co-founder Chairman Mark Getty selling most of their ownership interests. According to preliminary talks, Caryle got a bit of a deal on the agreement. Hellman &#038; Friedman initially wanted $4 billion for Getty to try and make a bigger profit on the $2.4 billion it bought it for four years ago. Getty, a stock-photo business started in 1995, claims it was the first company to license images online. The Seattle-based company also provides other digital media including music and video.<\/p>\n<p><img src='http:\/\/images.grab-media.com\/financial_news_network\/2012\/08\/16\/1_witlaczf_thumb.jpg' \/><\/p>\n<p><!--post_img[http:\/\/images.grab-media.com\/financial_news_network\/2012\/08\/16\/1_witlaczf_preview.jpg]--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Caryle Group (NYSE:CG) making a big acquisition today to expand its ever growing portfolio. The private equity firm announced an agreement to buy photo archive Getty Images for $3.3 billion from Hellman &#038; Friedman. The agreement with give Caryle a controlling stake in the company with co-founder Chairman Mark Getty selling most of their ownership &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/2012\/08\/16\/video-carlyle-group-acquires-getty-images-for-3-3-billion\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;VIDEO: Carlyle Group Acquires Getty Images for $3.3 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-29917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29917","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=29917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29917\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}