{"id":499,"date":"2007-07-04T07:19:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-04T05:19:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2007-07-04T07:19:00","modified_gmt":"2007-07-04T05:19:00","slug":"datapro-dips-10-after-bid-talk-fizzles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/telecoms\/499-datapro-dips-10-after-bid-talk-fizzles.html","title":{"rendered":"DataPro dips 10% after bid talk fizzles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\">&quot;There were rumours around that a large telecommunications company could have been sniffing around looking at Datapro,&quot; said Andrew Todd, a trader at Nedbank Group&#39;s BoE stockbrokers. &quot;Now that there is no news flow, sellers have entered the market.&quot;<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Shares of DataPro, which is in the process of changing its name to Vox Telekom, fell 10 percent to close at R2.95 yesterday.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Technology newswire MyADSL reported last week that Vodacom was in talks with Datapro, Storm and Verizon Business. Vodacom established a new company, Vodacom Converged Services, in a bid to enter the internet service provider market.<\/font> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php?t=80143\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DataPro Group stock fell yesterday after it did not receive a takeover bid following talk that one was possible.<\/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":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-telecoms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499"}],"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=499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}