Bye bye LinkedIn!
Microsoft to acquire LinkedIn for $26B
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Re: Microsoft to acquire LinkedIn for $26B
#432This could be totally unrelated, but damn this is a pretty stupid bad signal.
LinkedIn's iOS Developer Community cancels WWDC watch party after Microsoft purchase: http://appleinsider.com/articles/16/06/13/linkedins-ios-deve...
Re: Microsoft to acquire LinkedIn for $26B
#433Earlier quoted context omitted.
> To be honest, they're probably buying the users, not the product Couldn't agree more. LinkedIn has to be one of the most under-powered network out there. It's UX is still reminiscent of Orkut days. It's notifications and messaging system is the worst of breed. The network updates and posts on the "wall" are so bad that I stopped reading them years ago because it feels like spam. It prompts me every now and again to…
> It prompts me every now and again to congratulate people on job anniversaries--maybe people do that but it's a weak play when a company reaches to those depths. So what? Facebook prompts me to congratulate on people's birthdays, and Facebook is doing quite well.
Facebook contacts are my friends, at least for some value of "a friend". LinkedIn contacts are not.
Re: Microsoft to acquire LinkedIn for $26B
#434I bought linkedin a couple of months ago at like 108 or so... I'm debating whether or not to sell half or all my stock... needless to say the wife is thrilled that I finally did some investing right :)
I was wondering this too, but I think half the reason the stock jumped up to ~192 is due to the sentiment of this acquisition being approved by the FTC.
Since it's a cash deal, you'll miss out on ~$4 share, and since you bought in Feb/March, you'll end up paying your normal tax rate in capital gains. My guess is they approve this deal before Feb/March so no clear advantage holding for that reason.
Perhaps someone else could chime in as well?
Re: Microsoft to acquire LinkedIn for $26B
#435Earlier quoted context omitted.
>Actually looking forward to MS's UX folk cleaning up LinkedIn. This. This the only reason im excited about the acquisition. LinkedIn UX is awful. What makes me nervous though, is some things could get worse. (skype has gone downhill ever since the acquisition i feel).
Skype has gone downhill ever since their first acquisition, and they've been acquired at least three times already. If anything, MS is starting to slowly take it to a better direction, even though it is nowhere near the ideology of the original Skype. I believe that LinkedIn will end up being a similar case, where it will continue to suck, but you'll see some slow progress eventually. EDIT: As pointed out, LinkedIn w…
it is true the skype has some issues since MS acquired them, and there were some changes/decision made on it which I disliked, however, it is performing better lately. hopefully it will turn around.
Re: Microsoft to acquire LinkedIn for $26B
#436What does that mean to Scala?
Re: Microsoft to acquire LinkedIn for $26B
#437Earlier quoted context omitted.
That is basically steps 1 & 2. Step 3 is you get an email (marketing or sales) because Dynamics notified assigned a task to a sales rep or started a job in marketing automation. Then, based on you opening/ replying/ not opening the email, a whole new series of tasks are created. If MSFT / Dynamics do this right, they will have a very strong Salesforce competitor.
Honestly, Linkedin by itself would have made a very strong Salesforce competitor. Not sure why they never went down that route, instead they focused only on recruiting, the least interesting use-case.
The complete rumor I have heard over the years was a gentleman's agreement between CRM & LKND
Re: Microsoft to acquire LinkedIn for $26B
#438Oh, I can just imagine how the process went at MS: * Exec A: Social things are Good (coming to the conclusion about 10 years too late) * Exec B: Shall we create our own Google+? * Exec C: No, that didn't turn out that well for Google. Let's buy something existing. * Exec B: Ok, I've Googled a list of top 10 social networking sites for sale, and ordered them by list price, but really we'll need to come up with a strat…
I imagine it was more like: - Microsoft has the money - LinkedIn is the biggest thing in recruiting (I don't especially like it either, but it is). I wouldn't personally hire someone via recruiters or LinkedIn, but I would hire someone via a recomendation from a contact I maintain on LinkedIn. - Microsoft makes business tools - There's a bunch of interesting opportunities for intrgating Dynamics, Yammer, and other MS…
Actually looking forward to MS's UX folk cleaning up LinkedIn.
Along those lines, maybe they'll fix the very broken email alerts for group postings. For quite a while, my experience has been that if I have it set to weekly digests I do get them weekly as expected, but if I set a group to daily digests I get nothing at all. So I get nothing at all for the groups that I have the most interest in. I opened a support ticket about it but got nowhere with it. I don't know if this impacts everyone or just some subset of users, but I've seen others complain about it.
Re: Microsoft to acquire LinkedIn for $26B
#439Oh, I can just imagine how the process went at MS: * Exec A: Social things are Good (coming to the conclusion about 10 years too late) * Exec B: Shall we create our own Google+? * Exec C: No, that didn't turn out that well for Google. Let's buy something existing. * Exec B: Ok, I've Googled a list of top 10 social networking sites for sale, and ordered them by list price, but really we'll need to come up with a strat…
$26.2bn / 400mio user = $65 per user Facebook paid $30 to acquire WhatsApp. (And afaik similar what Murdoch paid for MySpace.)
Not all users are equal, I'd argue a LinkedIn user is worth more than a WhatsApp user
Re: Microsoft to acquire LinkedIn for $26B
#440I am currently a grad student at a top5 university in US and been at a top5 in India. I can say from experience that LinkedIn is dying and no longer valued as professional profile. LinkedIn had a nice concept of connection, however after a few accept alls I have 500+ connections with a similar amount pending. The messages I receive are garbage, the feed is stale. There is no incentive to open the website and I have unsubscribed from all their marketing email as they are ~ spam.
Maybe this is just me but I feel WhatsApp is way more popular /useful/growing and Microsoft paid more than that for a dying network.