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Holy fuck that is a lot of money. How on earth is LinkedIn worth anywhere near that?!
I am not sure what has held LinkedIn back these many years but it is certainly possible that the new leadership can push a lot of great changes to the platform.
I 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?
So people can cash the f k out, baby! (If I could negotiate $26B in cash, I would.)
Oh, 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…
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> 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.
Is that something you do every year? Congratulate your friends on their job anniversaries?
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Like the forced Win10 updates, spyware, ads directly in the OS which you paid for, ...?
Spyware? Really? I can understand the updates making people upset (though they should update!,) and the "suggested apps" in the start menu (which luckily you can turn off.) But calling Windows 10 spyware is total nonsense. Do you think that every other major OS, including Android and iOS, OSX don't take telemetry metrics? You're insane. You could never improve the OS, if you didn't. Google takes telemetry data from y…
Also, I think windows 10 is closer to adware than spyware. I think it is adware as it sneakily installs itself, and it has ads.
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Like the forced Win10 updates, spyware, ads directly in the OS which you paid for, ...?
Spyware? Really? I can understand the updates making people upset (though they should update!,) and the "suggested apps" in the start menu (which luckily you can turn off.) But calling Windows 10 spyware is total nonsense. Do you think that every other major OS, including Android and iOS, OSX don't take telemetry metrics? You're insane. You could never improve the OS, if you didn't. Google takes telemetry data from y…
At least with a browser client you have control over how you're traced on the web. With the OS (that you paid for), you're forced to install some third party software and give it admin access. That's not a security problem waiting to happen at all.
Great move. IMO this is Microsoft making a play for HR managed services -- look for them to sign a big deal with ADP / BenefitsExpress / buy someone like Zenefits to complement this purchase. The power and value of LinkedIn is as a recruiting platform; and recruiting is a big-money problem that's only getting worse. If they can turn LinkedIn into a benefits management platform, that would be a huge win for Microsoft…
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> In MBA-speak, "secular" means "non-cyclical." It's not "MBA-speak"; this sense of the word "secular" is used in economics, time-series analysis, astronomy, etc. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secular_variation
What's the etymology of that?
What does that mean to Scala?
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I would think that non-techies would be even more confused and annoyed by their computer suddenly drastically changing out from underneath them without their permission.
Apple's proven that the general population get over this pretty quickly, though. Look at their iOS 7 update.
Soon it was running iOS 7 after prompting to update to the new OS.
Soon after that it went back to the shop for a full refund, because the person who had liked it before found the new OS and the things that broke in the process of updating that annoying.