{"id":829230,"date":"2024-07-04T10:12:02","date_gmt":"2024-07-04T04:42:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=829230"},"modified":"2024-07-04T10:14:30","modified_gmt":"2024-07-04T04:44:30","slug":"koo-rival-to-x-to-shut-down-amid-failed-acquisition-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2024\/07\/04\/koo-rival-to-x-to-shut-down-amid-failed-acquisition-talks\/","title":{"rendered":"Koo, rival to X, to shut down amid failed acquisition talks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microblogging platform Koo, an alternative to X, is shutting down its service after acquisition talks fell through, founder Aprameya Radhakrishna said in a post on LinkedIn on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The decision comes after several talks for a potential sale or merger with multiple companies, including Dailyhunt, failed. Koo has raised over $50 million from investors like Tiger Global, Accel, 3one4 Capital, Kalaari Capital, Blume Ventures, and others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microblogging platform Koo, an alternative to X, is shutting down its service after acquisition talks fell through, founder Aprameya Radhakrishna said in a post on LinkedIn on Wednesday. The decision comes after several talks for a potential sale or merger with multiple companies, including Dailyhunt, failed. Koo has raised over $50 million from investors like Tiger Global, Accel, 3one4 Capital, Kalaari Capital, Blume Ventures, and others.<\/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":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-829230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829230","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=829230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829230\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=829230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=829230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=829230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}