Microsoft to acquire LinkedIn for $26B
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Microsoft to acquire LinkedIn for $26B
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Re: Microsoft to acquire LinkedIn for $26B
#2Oh Boy. Congrats to MS, but my days are numbered on that site now.
Re: Microsoft to acquire LinkedIn for $26B
#3Skype, Nokia, Minecraft, LinkedIn. Also Yahoo, almost, at one point.
Best of luck to Microsoft with its latest acquisition. It doesn't look that sensible though.
Re: Microsoft to acquire LinkedIn for $26B
#4Holy fuck that is a lot of money. How on earth is LinkedIn worth anywhere near that?!
Re: Microsoft to acquire LinkedIn for $26B
#5Another nokia.....
Re: Microsoft to acquire LinkedIn for $26B
#6Here's looking forward to my Hotmail account email address being accidentally 'shared' with LinkedIn and the never-ending LinkedIn spam returning.
Re: Microsoft to acquire LinkedIn for $26B
#7I hope this will usher in an era of less unethical behaviour from the company under new leadership. Congratulations to shareholders.
Anyone know why they'd negotiate an all cash settlement?
Re: Microsoft to acquire LinkedIn for $26B
#8I hope they do a rewrite/redesign of the frontend.
Re: Microsoft to acquire LinkedIn for $26B
#9It'll be interesting to see how they integrate LinkedIn with Yammer (if they do at all). Particularly with the launch of Facebook at Work recently too.
Re: Microsoft to acquire LinkedIn for $26B
#10What is Microsoft hoping to gain from this?