{"id":26201,"date":"2020-05-28T17:48:57","date_gmt":"2020-05-28T12:18:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/google-considering-buying-stake-in-vodafone-idea-report\/"},"modified":"2020-05-28T17:48:57","modified_gmt":"2020-05-28T12:18:57","slug":"google-considering-buying-stake-in-vodafone-idea-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=26201","title":{"rendered":"Google Considering Buying Stake in Vodafone Idea: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>Google may take about 5 percent stake in Vodafone Idea.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/gadgets.ndtv.com\/telecom\/news\/google-vodafone-idea-deal-stake-report-2236692\">Reuters<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Alphabet&#8217;s Google is exploring an investment in Vodafone Group Plc&#8217;s struggling India business, the Financial Times reported on Thursday, citing people familiar with the matter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Google is considering buying a stake of about 5 percent in Vodafone Idea, the FT reported, citing one of the people. The process is at an early stage, according to the report.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Vodafone said it does not comment on market speculation, while Google did not immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Last month, Facebook agreed to invest $5.7 billion (Rs 43,574 crores) for a 9.99 percent stake in Reliance Industries&#8217; digital arm, Jio, which competes with Vodafone Idea and Bharti Airtel in India&#8217;s fiercely competitive telecom market.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u00a9 Thomson Reuters 2020<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google may take about 5 percent stake in Vodafone Idea. Reuters Alphabet&#8217;s Google is exploring an investment in Vodafone Group Plc&#8217;s struggling India business, the Financial Times reported on Thursday, citing people familiar with the matter. Google is considering buying a stake of about 5 percent in Vodafone Idea, the FT reported, citing one of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25534,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26201\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}