{"id":915324,"date":"2025-03-19T11:22:19","date_gmt":"2025-03-19T05:52:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=915324"},"modified":"2025-03-19T11:22:19","modified_gmt":"2025-03-19T05:52:19","slug":"how-donald-trump-may-have-helped-google-in-its-biggest-acquisition-ever-of-wiz-for-32-billion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/03\/19\/how-donald-trump-may-have-helped-google-in-its-biggest-acquisition-ever-of-wiz-for-32-billion\/","title":{"rendered":"How Donald Trump may have helped Google in its biggest acquisition ever of Wiz for $32 billion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google&#8217;s massive $32 billion acquisition of cybersecurity firm Wiz gained significant momentum after Donald Trump&#8217;s presidential inauguration in January, with executives from both companies accelerating negotiations amid expectations of a more favorable regulatory environment under the new administration.<\/p>\n<p>According to Reuters reporting, Google not only sweetened its original $23 billion offer from July to $32 billion but also dramatically increased the breakup fee to more than $3.2 billion\u2014over 10% of the deal value\u2014should regulatory issues derail the acquisition. This unusually high termination fee reflects the companies&#8217; confidence in the deal&#8217;s prospects under Trump&#8217;s watch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google&#8217;s massive $32 billion acquisition of cybersecurity firm Wiz gained significant momentum after Donald Trump&#8217;s presidential inauguration in January, with executives from both companies accelerating negotiations amid expectations of a more favorable regulatory environment under the new administration. According to Reuters reporting, Google not only sweetened its original $23 billion offer from July to $32 billion but also dramatically increased the breakup fee to more than $3.2 billion\u2014over 10% of the deal value\u2014should regulatory issues derail the acquisition. This unusually high termination fee reflects the companies&#8217; confidence in the deal&#8217;s prospects under Trump&#8217;s watch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-915324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915324","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=915324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915324\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=915324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=915324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=915324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}