{"id":3937,"date":"2008-05-29T02:17:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-29T00:17:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2008-05-29T02:17:00","modified_gmt":"2008-05-29T00:17:00","slug":"acquisitions-to-help-huge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/3937-acquisitions-to-help-huge.html","title":{"rendered":"Acquisitions to help Huge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Huge acquired 25 percent in mobile advertising firm Eyeballs and the competition commission has approved its purchase of a 59 percent stake in service provider iTalk for R511 million. <\/p>\n<p>Huge provides least-cost routing services to more than 10 000 corporate customers.<\/p>\n<p>The acquisition of Eyeballs would further diversify income streams into the media field.<\/p>\n<p>Huge yesterday reported results for its first seven months as an AltX-listed firm, with revenue of R243.5 million and pretax operating profit of R26 million. <\/p>\n<p>Huge proposed a dividend of 12c a share. Its stock gained 9.3 percent to R4.10 yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Telecoms company Huge Group expects to more than double its revenue to R1.2 billion this year through two acquisitions<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3937"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3937\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}