{"id":13125,"date":"2024-01-29T16:37:51","date_gmt":"2024-01-29T15:37:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/29\/amazon-drops-1-4bn-deal-to-buy-irobot-after-eu-veto-reports\/"},"modified":"2024-01-29T16:37:51","modified_gmt":"2024-01-29T15:37:51","slug":"amazon-drops-1-4bn-deal-to-buy-irobot-after-eu-veto-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/29\/amazon-drops-1-4bn-deal-to-buy-irobot-after-eu-veto-reports\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon drops $1.4bn deal to buy iRobot after EU veto reports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Roomba maker announces plans to axe 31% of workforce and exit of CEO after collapse of acquisition<\/p>\n<p>Amazon has dropped its planned $1.4bn (\u00a31.1bn) acquisition of the Roomba maker iRobot, amid EUopposition to the deal.<\/p>\n<p>The e-commerce company will pay a $94m break fee to iRobot, which immediately announced plans to axe 31% of its workforce \u2013 or 350 employees \u2013 and the departure of its chief executive.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2024\/jan\/29\/amazon-deal-irobot-eu-veto-roomba\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/7ab978c94abf89d93a1ccb7768c5467d194d4c23\/0_0_3888_2332\/master\/3888.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=9c621c86057d482672ffe9f616b9c350\" title=\"Amazon drops $1.4bn deal to buy iRobot after EU veto reports\" \/>Roomba maker announces plans to axe 31% of workforce and exit of CEO after collapse of acquisition<br \/>\nAmazon has dropped its planned $1.4bn (\u00a31.1bn) acquisition of the Roomba maker iRobot, amid EUopposition to the deal.<br \/>\nThe e-commerce company will pay a $94m break fee to iRobot, which immediately announced plans to axe 31% of its workforce \u2013 or 350 employees \u2013 and the departure of its chief executive. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Roomba maker announces plans to axe 31% of workforce and exit of CEO after collapse of acquisition Amazon has dropped its planned $1.4bn (\u00a31.1bn) acquisition of the Roomba maker iRobot, amid EUopposition to the deal. The e-commerce company will pay a $94m break fee to iRobot, which immediately announced plans to axe 31% of its &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/29\/amazon-drops-1-4bn-deal-to-buy-irobot-after-eu-veto-reports\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Amazon drops $1.4bn deal to buy iRobot after EU veto reports<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":13126,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13125"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13125\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}