{"id":1028725,"date":"2026-08-14T07:34:31","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T02:04:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1028725"},"modified":"2026-08-14T07:37:38","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T02:07:38","slug":"silver-lake-in-talks-to-buy-workday-sources-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/14\/silver-lake-in-talks-to-buy-workday-sources-say\/","title":{"rendered":"Silver Lake in talks to buy Workday, sources say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Private equity firm Silver Lake is in talks to acquire Workday, which has a market value of about $43 billion, in a deal \u200cthat would \u2060rank \u2060among the largest software buyouts in history, according to people familiar with the matter. <\/p>\n<p>Silver Lake and the human-resources and financial management software company have \u200bheld discussions about a \u2060potential deal \u200cin recent months, \u200bthe \u200bpeople said. The talks are \u2060ongoing and there is no guarantee \u200ba deal will materialize, said \u200bthe sources, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the discussions are confidential.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Private equity firm Silver Lake is in talks to acquire Workday, which has a market value of about $43 billion, in a deal \u200cthat would \u2060rank \u2060among the largest software buyouts in history, according to people familiar with the matter. Silver Lake and the human-resources and financial management software company have \u200bheld discussions about a \u2060potential deal \u200cin recent months, \u200bthe \u200bpeople said. The talks are \u2060ongoing and there is no guarantee \u200ba deal will materialize, said \u200bthe sources, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the discussions are confidential.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1028725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1028725"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028725\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1028751,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028725\/revisions\/1028751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1028725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1028725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1028725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}