{"id":28567,"date":"2015-03-05T11:30:36","date_gmt":"2015-03-05T10:30:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/?p=28567"},"modified":"2015-03-05T11:30:36","modified_gmt":"2015-03-05T10:30:36","slug":"cisco-invest-100-million-train-200k-employees-france","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/2015\/03\/cisco-invest-100-million-train-200k-employees-france\/","title":{"rendered":"Cisco to invest $100 Million &amp; train 200K employees in France"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-28600\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/assets\/cisco-systems-inc-to-invest-in-french-startups-e1424290004644.jpg\" alt=\"cisco-systems-inc-to-invest-in-french-startups\" width=\"999\" height=\"502\" \/><br \/>\nCisco\u00a0will invest $100 Million in French businesses\u00a0as well as commit to training 200,000 professionals in France, the French Government announced <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gouvernement.fr\/partage\/3419-communique-de-presse-de-manuel-valls-premier-ministre-partenariat-entre-cisco-et-l-etat-francaisdoc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">in a statement this week<\/a>.\u00a0The news will likely become more concrete in the coming months &#8211; the announcement made on behalf of Prime Minister Manuel Valls contained no deadline or start date for said action.<br \/>\nThe announcement comes as France continues to\u00a0work to reshape its image as an unfriendly business environment &#8211; France&#8217;s Economic Minister welcomed hundreds at\u00a0the Economic Ministry&#8217;s office, also home of the FrenchTech initiative, as he said that\u00a0the French Government, while it won&#8217;t lead the change, will follow in its entrepreneurs&#8217; footsteps, and be as bold (&#8220;<em>oser&#8221;<\/em>) as\u00a0its\u00a0citizens.<br \/>\nEarlier this year at\u00a0CES 2015, CEO John Chambers said the following of France:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;<span style=\"color: #4a4a4a;\">They are in tough economic times but their leadership understands they need to move fast and I\u2019d not be surprised to see them digitize quickly&#8221;<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It looks as if this move has been in the works in recent months, although Economic Minister\u00a0Emmanuel Macron&#8217;s visit to CES may have cemented the deal. The next steps will be to see how that\u00a0talk converts to action.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cisco\u00a0will invest $100 Million in French businesses\u00a0as well as commit to training 200,000 professionals in France, the French Government announced in a statement this week.\u00a0The news will likely become more concrete in the coming months &#8211; the announcement made on behalf of Prime Minister Manuel Valls contained no deadline or start date for said action.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":28600,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"subtitle":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10563],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tech"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/77"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28567\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}