{"id":5407,"date":"2008-09-30T17:25:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-30T15:25:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2008-09-30T17:25:00","modified_gmt":"2008-09-30T15:25:00","slug":"microsoft-bases-search-engine-development-in-norway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/5407-microsoft-bases-search-engine-development-in-norway.html","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft bases search engine development in Norway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&quot;The global centre for our enterprise search R&amp;D will be done here from Norway,&quot; Ballmer told reporters after meeting with Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg in Oslo.<\/p>\n<p>The move was made possible by Microsoft&#8217;s recent purchase of Norwegian company Fast Search &amp; Transfer for 6.6 billion kroner ($1.2 billion, &euro;836 million), he said.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;We now have a significant research laboratory here in Norway&#8230; with the acquisition of Fast,&quot; which operates in Europe, the United States, Asia, Australia and the Middle East, he said.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft, which currently employs 300 people at three Norwegian centres in Oslo, Trondheim and Tromsoe, will hire another 50 people in the Scandinavian country, he added.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US software giant Microsoft will base its global research and development centre for specialised search engines used by companies in Norway, company chief executive Steve Ballmer said Tuesday.<\/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":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-software"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5407"}],"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=5407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5407\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}