{"id":976327,"date":"2025-11-25T08:48:01","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T03:18:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=976327"},"modified":"2025-11-25T08:50:04","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T03:20:04","slug":"grindr-ends-talks-on-3-46-billion-take-private-bid-over-financing-uncertainty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/11\/25\/grindr-ends-talks-on-3-46-billion-take-private-bid-over-financing-uncertainty\/","title":{"rendered":"Grindr ends talks on $3.46 billion take-private bid over financing uncertainty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dating app Grindr said on Monday it has ended talks on a $3.46 billion take-private deal by its two largest shareholders, citing uncertainty over the deal&#8217;s financing. <\/p>\n<p>Shares of the company were down about 12% after a special committee said investors Ray Zage and James Lu, who together control more than 60% of Grindr&#8217;s outstanding stock, had failed to provide clarity on timing and financing on the October bid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dating app Grindr said on Monday it has ended talks on a $3.46 billion take-private deal by its two largest shareholders, citing uncertainty over the deal&#8217;s financing. Shares of the company were down about 12% after a special committee said investors Ray Zage and James Lu, who together control more than 60% of Grindr&#8217;s outstanding stock, had failed to provide clarity on timing and financing on the October bid.<\/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-976327","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\/976327","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=976327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/976327\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=976327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=976327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=976327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}