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Re: Microsoft to acquire LinkedIn for $26B

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Post by dorfsmay » Mon, Jun 13, 2016, 2:25 PM UTC

nailer wrote: post #294

fecak wrote: post #255

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> 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. I'm a recruiter, and fully understand reluctance to use recruiters (expensive, not to mention a host of other reputation issues). I don't quite understand "I would't hire someone via...LinkedIn". 'Hire someone via LinkedIn' could mean a host of things. The most obvious w…

Well yeah, I think we're agreed. We might not use recruiters, but LinkedIn still helps us maintain business connections.

Which now are going to be part of some shadow profile inside Microsoft databases (à la Facebook).

Re: Microsoft to acquire LinkedIn for $26B

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Post by tonyedgecombe » Mon, Jun 13, 2016, 2:25 PM UTC

dannypgh wrote: post #159

kxd wrote: post #44

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As someone else pointed out, their revenue is pretty decent. But their biggest asset is likely key staff as well as, as social networks go, that it has the cleanest/most useful database of users.

There are far cheaper ways of getting LinkedIn's database!

SQL Injection?

Re: Microsoft to acquire LinkedIn for $26B

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Post by nkassis » Mon, Jun 13, 2016, 2:29 PM UTC

bauc wrote: post #225

badlogic wrote: post #100

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Like the forced Win10 updates, spyware, ads directly in the OS which you paid for, ...?

Might make people wake up and look at alternatives finally (can hope). I'm definitely thinking Win 7 is my last Windows OS.

The alternative all have their issue too. I think Win 10 has a lot going for it right now, it's hardly the worse OS of the major one available now days.

Re: Microsoft to acquire LinkedIn for $26B

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Post by tanzam75 » Mon, Jun 13, 2016, 2:29 PM UTC

nailer wrote: post #80

ivoras wrote: post #11

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…

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…

> Edit: Nadella said re: how MS looks at acquisitions (http://www.theverge.com/2016/6/13/11920306/microsoft-ceo-sat...) "Is this asset riding secular usage and technology trends?" - anyone know what that means?

In general English, "secular" means "non-religious."

In MBA-speak, "secular" means "non-cyclical."

An example of cyclical growth would be ExxonMobil between 2004 and 2007. They couldn't keep up this growth, because it was due entirely to swings in the price of oil.

An example of secular growth would be Google between 2004 and 2007. They were able to ride the trend of advertising moving online. (Advertising is a cyclical business, but Google won't feel it until advertising stops moving online.)

Nadella is saying that he believes LinkedIn is riding a sustained trend.

Re: Microsoft to acquire LinkedIn for $26B

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Post by pbhjpbhj » Mon, Jun 13, 2016, 2:31 PM UTC

dec0dedab0de wrote: post #343

pbhjpbhj wrote: post #265

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/sarcasm?

No, I'm serious. I'm not a big MS fan, but they've been doing some good things lately. Hopefully they can make LinkedIn feel less scummy.

Prior to forcing people's computers to move to Win 10 and using scummy badware tactics (close the dialog to install, no "do not install" option) I'd have agreed; MS looked like they were reforming.

Re: Microsoft to acquire LinkedIn for $26B

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Post by interdrift » Mon, Jun 13, 2016, 2:31 PM UTC

exception_e wrote: post #8

I hope they do a rewrite/redesign of the frontend.

Yeah, if they roll out the Azure theme I would be incredibly happy!

Re: Microsoft to acquire LinkedIn for $26B

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Post by longsangstan » Mon, Jun 13, 2016, 2:32 PM UTC

yosefk wrote: post #3

Skype, 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.

hows minecraft doing for microsoft?

Re: Microsoft to acquire LinkedIn for $26B

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Post by justinzollars » Mon, Jun 13, 2016, 2:32 PM UTC

Linkedin is a great buy for Microsoft! Congratulations to my Linkedin friends. :)

Re: Microsoft to acquire LinkedIn for $26B

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Post by BinaryIdiot » Mon, Jun 13, 2016, 2:32 PM UTC

TheRealDunkirk wrote: post #147

ralfd wrote: post #57

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I think googling was part of the joke

I didn't even catch it. That's how much googling has become a part of the language. It's been Kleenexed.

Not sure why you're being down voted. You are completely right. I've found multiple people using a search tool inside of an app and then call it "googling" instead of search.

Re: Microsoft to acquire LinkedIn for $26B

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Post by joshvm » Mon, Jun 13, 2016, 2:34 PM UTC

ckastner wrote: post #33

For reference, IPO in May 2011 was for $45/share, and they closed at $94.25 on the first day for a total market cap of $9bn, according to this [1] source. [1] http://money.cnn.com/2011/05/19/technology/linkedin_IPO/

The share price hasn't exactly been rosy recently, so at least the shareholders have something to look forward to.

http://markets.ft.com/research/Markets/Tearsheets/Summary?s=...

http://www.reuters.com/article/linkedin-results-research-idU...