{"id":14632,"date":"2014-02-05T16:52:08","date_gmt":"2014-02-05T21:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=14632"},"modified":"2014-02-05T16:52:08","modified_gmt":"2014-02-05T21:52:08","slug":"kobo-replaces-ceo-with-top-exec-from-parent-company-rakuten","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=14632","title":{"rendered":"Kobo replaces CEO with top exec from parent company Rakuten"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a title=\"Kobo replaces CEO\" href=\"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/2014\/02\/04\/ebook-company-kobo-replaces-its-ceo-with-exec-from-japanese-parent-company-rakuten\/\">Gigaom<\/a><\/strong> reports that <strong>Kobo<\/strong> has replaced its <strong>CEO<\/strong> with a top executive from its <strong>Japanese<\/strong> parent company <strong>Rakuten<\/strong>. No reason was given for changing horses in the competitive marketplace currently dominated by <strong>Amazon<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gigaom reports that Kobo has replaced its CEO with a top executive from its Japanese parent company Rakuten. No reason was given for changing horses in the competitive marketplace currently dominated by Amazon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5,8,12,15,14,16,13,20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14632"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14632"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14632\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14634,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14632\/revisions\/14634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}