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I circulated this to some of my friends and one came back thus: So now, LinkedIn will turn SinkedIn !!
Per LinkedIn's Form 8-K [1], LinkedIn has agreed to pay Microsoft a $725 million break-up fee if (a) LinkedIn's Board of Directors withdraws its recommendation of the merger, (b) LinkedIn accepts a superior offer, or (c) LinkedIn's stockholders turn the merger down. Note that LinkedIn may terminate the merger without paying the break-up fee if it avoids announcing an acquisition within one year of so terminating [2].…
Is it normal to have the clause about the shareholders turning the merger down? Seems like one helluva way to ram it down shareholders throats without much option to say no.
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…
More thoughts on that here: https://medium.com/@ux/will-linkedin-and-microsofts-new-play...
This is a fantastic move for Microsoft, and IMO, a premature throwing-in-the-towel moment for LinkedIn. At $26B, that's less than 10% of Facebook's market-cap. That's a steal for the world's biggest Social-Professional Network, and the medium through which most recruiting could conceivably happen in the future. Given that MS currently has no social presence at all, but has a fantastic enterprise sales channel, Linked…
MS does have a 1-2% stake in Facebook lest we forget
Someone else must've been interested. Salesforce, maybe?
http://www.recode.net/2016/6/16/11958588/salesforce-also-mad...
Regardless of how you feel, I think it's pretty amazing that even Microsoft with its vast resources doesn't feel they could compete with LinkedIn if they invested that same 26B in themselves.
Users, how are u going to gain those many users.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
You not liking it doesn't make it a poor business strategy.
And the lobbyists have made the spurious practices, ala 'GatorWallet', OK for the "good guys" so it's no longer illegal, either.
http://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/private/person.asp?...
Or, here's the legwork done for you from 2011: http://www.boilingfrogspost.com/2011/11/30/bfp-report-meet-t...
LNKD is extremely powerful when paired with CRM. To the point that MSFT might have seen this as a better choice than buying Salesforce, especially as their own in house CRM offering (Dynamics) is becoming very strong, and far more likeable for end users. The biggest loser from this deal was Salesforce, they will be gutted. This move took me completely by surprise, and I'm pretty impressed in Nadella for pulling it of…
you work at hubspot with that ridiculous terminology? 1 + 1 = 2 period.