{"id":5461,"date":"2007-04-27T17:29:20","date_gmt":"2007-04-27T17:29:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/ed-whitacre-jr.html"},"modified":"2007-04-27T17:29:20","modified_gmt":"2007-04-27T17:29:20","slug":"ed-whitacre-jr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/technology\/ed-whitacre-jr.html","title":{"rendered":"Ed Whitacre Jr."},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">Congratulations to Ed Whitacre Jr. for <a href=\"http:\/\/news.tmcnet.com\/news\/it\/2007\/04\/27\/2560983.htm\">building<\/a> a great big telecommunications company from an assortment of smaller ones. Certainly in this case the sum was greater than the parts.<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">Ed is about to <a href=\"http:\/\/news.tmcnet.com\/news\/it\/2007\/04\/27\/2560983.htm\">retire<\/a> and he can consider this my retirement present. \ud83d\ude42<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">While I have perhaps had a rant or two over the years about net neutrality comments made by Mr. Whitacre, there is not a single person who can deny this man has achieved greatness in the world of communications and technology.<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">Ed Whitacre Jr. put AT&amp;T back together again and left it in great shape.<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">The Board of Directors has chosen Randall L. Stephenson, AT&amp;T&#8217;s chief operating officer, to succeed Whitacre as chairman and CEO.<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">Randall has tremendous shoes to fill and it may be very tough to keep AT&amp;T&rsquo;s massive momentum going without even more acquisitions. These could consist of content plays such as perhaps satellite radio, internet companies and even advertising networks. Yahoo! makes a good acquisition target for example. But really, who knows at this point?<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">It will be very interesting to see where this company which represents a new and old American icon will decide to take its expanding business. It will certainly be exciting to watch and discuss with my community of readers.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to Ed Whitacre Jr. for building a great big telecommunications company from an assortment of smaller ones. Certainly in this case the sum was greater than the parts. &nbsp; Ed is about to retire and he can consider this my retirement present. \ud83d\ude42 &nbsp; While I have perhaps had a rant or two over<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[171,179,202,172,160,163,212,199,218,188,1673,156,189,203,211,118,190,191,205,219,175],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5461"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5461\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}