{"id":37789,"date":"2013-09-04T11:35:50","date_gmt":"2013-09-04T15:35:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=37789"},"modified":"2013-09-04T11:35:50","modified_gmt":"2013-09-04T15:35:50","slug":"valueact-hedge-funds-huge-microsoft-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/09\/2013\/valueact-hedge-funds-huge-microsoft-victory.html","title":{"rendered":"ValueAct Hedge Fund&#8217;s Huge Microsoft Victory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Forbes &#8211; Microsoft\u00a0called it a cooperation agreement and made the announcement late on Friday, just prior to the Labor Day weekend and some pretty big deal making news, but there is no masking the huge victory that hedge fund ValueAct has scored in Redmond, Wash.<\/p>\n<p>Despite owning a mere 0.8% stake in Microsoft, ValueAct Capital\u00a0Management\u00a0has forced its way onto the board of the software giant days after longtime Microsoft CEO\u00a0Steve Ballmer\u00a0announced he would be quitting within a year\u2014a move that appeared to have ValueAct\u2019s finger prints all over it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/nathanvardi\/2013\/09\/03\/valueact-hedge-funds-huge-microsoft-victory\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forbes &#8211; Microsoft\u00a0called it a cooperation agreement and made the announcement late on Friday, just prior to the Labor Day weekend and some pretty big deal making news, but there is no masking the huge victory that hedge fund ValueAct [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37789"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37789\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37791,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37789\/revisions\/37791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}