{"id":266843,"date":"2018-05-02T10:36:49","date_gmt":"2018-05-02T14:36:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/?p=266843"},"modified":"2018-05-02T11:20:45","modified_gmt":"2018-05-02T15:20:45","slug":"cisco-acquire-accompany-270-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/cisco-acquire-accompany-270-million\/","title":{"rendered":"Cisco to acquire Accompany for $270 Million"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">May 2nd, 2018 &#8211; Cisco Systems, Inc., an American multinational technology conglomerate headquartered in California, announced today that they are acquiring Accompany, a business intelligence startup which uses AI to build databases of people and relationships at companies.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-266873\" src=\"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/files\/2018\/05\/cisco-img.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"512\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/files\/2018\/05\/cisco-img.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/files\/2018\/05\/cisco-img-150x75.png 150w, https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/files\/2018\/05\/cisco-img-300x150.png 300w, https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/files\/2018\/05\/cisco-img-768x384.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This acquisition will be a deal of $270 million in cash and stock and will give Cisco the ability to incorporate Accompany technology into their collaboration products.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cAmy has proven to be an effective and innovative leader through her years as an entrepreneur, an engineer, and CEO, and I couldn\u2019t be more pleased to have her and the Accompany team join Cisco,\u201d said Cisco chairman and CEO Chuck Robbins in the announcement. <\/span><\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We are excited to see where this acquisition will take Cisco and serve more customers with better communication experience!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May 2nd, 2018 &#8211; Cisco Systems, Inc., an American multinational technology conglomerate headquartered in California, announced today that they are acquiring Accompany, a business intelligence startup which uses AI to build databases of people and relationships at companies. This acquisition will be a deal of $270 million in cash and stock and will give Cisco [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":123,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1221],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-266843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-small-business-voip"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/123"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=266843"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266843\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":266883,"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266843\/revisions\/266883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}