{"id":970311,"date":"2025-10-30T08:05:04","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T02:35:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=970311"},"modified":"2025-10-30T08:17:28","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T02:47:28","slug":"germanys-sap-mulls-new-bid-for-software-firm-blackline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/10\/30\/germanys-sap-mulls-new-bid-for-software-firm-blackline\/","title":{"rendered":"Germany&#8217;s SAP mulls new bid for software firm BlackLine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SAP, Europe&#8217;s largest software provider, offered to buy accounting software firm BlackLine for nearly $4.5 billion in June but was rebuffed and is now considering a new approach, according to a copy of the offer letter reviewed by Reuters and a person familiar with the matter. <\/p>\n<p>The German software giant, which is working with JPMorgan on the deal, submitted a formal, non-public offer of $66 per share on June 18, but BlackLine wasn&#8217;t interested in a deal and rejected the advance, according to the letter and person familiar with the talks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SAP, Europe&#8217;s largest software provider, offered to buy accounting software firm BlackLine for nearly $4.5 billion in June but was rebuffed and is now considering a new approach, according to a copy of the offer letter reviewed by Reuters and a person familiar with the matter. The German software giant, which is working with JPMorgan on the deal, submitted a formal, non-public offer of $66 per share on June 18, but BlackLine wasn&#8217;t interested in a deal and rejected the advance, according to the letter and person familiar with the talks.<\/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-970311","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\/970311","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=970311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/970311\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=970311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=970311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=970311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}