{"id":2827,"date":"2011-03-30T14:32:02","date_gmt":"2011-03-30T14:32:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thesocialcmo.com\/blog\/?p=2827"},"modified":"2011-03-30T14:32:02","modified_gmt":"2011-03-30T14:32:02","slug":"salesforce-com-signs-definitive-agreement-to-acquire-radian6-the-industrys-leading-social-media-monitoring-platform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thesocialcmo.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/salesforce-com-signs-definitive-agreement-to-acquire-radian6-the-industrys-leading-social-media-monitoring-platform\/","title":{"rendered":"Salesforce.com Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire Radian6, the Industry’s Leading Social Media Monitoring Platform"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n
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Salesforce.com (NYSE: CRM), the enterprise cloud computing (http<\/a>:\/\/<\/a>www<\/a>.<\/a>salesforce<\/a>.<\/a>com<\/a>\/<\/a>cloudcomputing<\/a>\/<\/a>) company, today announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Radian6, the industry-leading social media monitoring platform, for approximately $276 million in cash and $50 million in stock, net of cash acquired. The transaction is expected to be completed in salesforce.com’s fiscal second quarter ending July 31, 2011, subject to customary closing conditions.<\/p>\n

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Salesforce.com (NYSE: CRM), the enterprise cloud computing (http:\/\/www.salesforce.com\/cloudcomputing\/) company, today announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Radian6, the industry-leading social media monitoring platform, for approximately $276 million in cash and $50 million in stock, net of cash acquired. The transaction is expected to be completed in salesforce.com’s fiscal second quarter ending … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[137,721],"tags":[1160,1161,50,1162,1163,1159,1158],"class_list":["post-2827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-posts","category-guest","tag-acquisition","tag-consolidation","tag-listening","tag-monitoring","tag-platform","tag-radian6","tag-salesforce"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thesocialcmo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thesocialcmo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thesocialcmo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thesocialcmo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thesocialcmo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2827"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thesocialcmo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2827\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2829,"href":"https:\/\/www.thesocialcmo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2827\/revisions\/2829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thesocialcmo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thesocialcmo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thesocialcmo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}