{"id":79420,"date":"2021-09-22T01:12:02","date_gmt":"2021-09-22T05:12:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=79420"},"modified":"2021-09-22T00:55:30","modified_gmt":"2021-09-22T04:55:30","slug":"u-s-committee-is-reviewing-zooms-14-7-billion-deal-for-five9-on-national-security-grounds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/09\/2021\/u-s-committee-is-reviewing-zooms-14-7-billion-deal-for-five9-on-national-security-grounds.html","title":{"rendered":"U.S. committee is reviewing Zoom\u2019s $14.7 billion deal for Five9 on national-security grounds"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(CNBC) A U.S. government committee is reviewing <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/ZM\" target=\"_blank\">Zoom\u2019s<\/a> agreement to acquire cloud contact center software company <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/FIVN\" target=\"_blank\">Five9<\/a> for $14.7 billion on national-security grounds. <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/licensing.fcc.gov\/cgi-bin\/ws.exe\/prod\/ib\/forms\/reports\/related_filing.hts?f_key=-468940&amp;f_number=ITCT\/C2021073100112\" target=\"_blank\">According to a letter dated Aug. 27<\/a>, the Federal Communications Commission was asked to refer the case to the Committee for the Assessment of Foreign Participation in the United States Telecommunications Service Sector. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2021\/09\/21\/us-committee-reviews-zooms-planned-14point7-billion-five9-acquisition.html\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNBC) A U.S. government committee is reviewing Zoom\u2019s agreement to acquire cloud contact center software company Five9 for $14.7 billion on national-security grounds. According to a letter dated Aug. 27, the Federal Communications Commission was asked to refer the case [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79420","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79420"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79421,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79420\/revisions\/79421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}