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Microsoft to acquire LinkedIn for $26B

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Re: Microsoft to acquire LinkedIn for $26B

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Post by Swannie »

preetish wrote: post #637

My take on this: - Better integration of Dynamics CRM with LinkedIn - A move towards social selling with LinkedIn Sales Navigator - Enriched LinkedIn news-feed with updates from work life (example: meetings, projects) - Better Cortana (personal assistant) that can help you professionally - Integration of Office suite with LinkedIn learning - Usage of Bing for professional search

Yes, me too.

The ability to automatically import contact's data into Dynamics, with integration directly into Skype for Business. One click call integration for all your customers!

Staff directory as a service? Maybe. Merged with Office 365 that might make sense.

Re: Microsoft to acquire LinkedIn for $26B

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Post by bobsil1 »

spriggan3 wrote: post #410
hammerbrostime wrote: post #94

I'm surprised by the amount of negativity about the deal here on HN. It seems like an excellent match. I could see LinkedIn as an asset for Microsoft anywhere in the realms of work collaboration and HR. No other social network besides LinkedIn comes close to complimenting MicroSoft's wheelhouse of enterprise utility.

> I'm surprised by the amount of negativity about the deal here on HN price tag + whether it really makes sense for MS. Everybody remembers the Nokia fiasco.

This is like MS-Yammer at the scale of Google-Moto.

Re: Microsoft to acquire LinkedIn for $26B

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Post by EdHominem »

therein wrote: post #806
EdHominem wrote: post #755

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Did you consider suing? It's the only way to reach today's modern corporation.

Or you know, you could post it here and I bet you can find someone who works for the company.

Why? Dark patterns are intentional, you know. That's theft, as if they stole your wallet.

You don't accidentally bill people for a subscription service - and if you did you'd reverse it the instant you discovered it, not try to hide.

Save your righteous mercy for people who steal from you.

Re: Microsoft to acquire LinkedIn for $26B

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Post by pif »

cinquemb wrote: post #621
swalsh wrote: post #595

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It's a lot like dating. Today you can simply post a profile on a site/app, and algorithms can now match you. Your exposure is now hundreds or thousands of people (no matter your preferences). The happenstance of being in the right place at the right time is cut down so much, it's almost irrelevant. It's far more likely a great match will be on the 1 of 3 places single people go, within the last month. It makes better…

Personally, I never had any decent job offers from linkedin. Everything has been lukewarm or spammy at best. Angel list on the other hand, works way better for me, so if a gun were put to my head to choose between either and drop the other, I'd drop linkedin. Linkedin seems kind of useful as far as signalling who/what types of people you are connected to if you don't add everyone at a whim when they request (like sub…

Same for me. Linkedin was only useful as a sort of social network to keep contacts with former colleagues. For the Swiss job market, jobup.ch is the way to go.

Re: Microsoft to acquire LinkedIn for $26B

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Post by makecheck »

gtirloni wrote: post #191
makecheck wrote: post #103

In addition to what others have said (what does it get Microsoft, etc.), how would this even be allowed? It would mean most recruiters going through Microsoft to get to candidates. I can just imagine how well that would go over at other tech companies: how can they be sure Microsoft isn’t getting “first crack” at people, etc. and does Microsoft then know which companies are about to lose employees?

Most recruiters going through Linked Inc. is any different? What would qualify a company to run an job board?

For one thing, the scale is very different: Microsoft is into almost everything, whereas LinkedIn as a company was relatively focused. The number of competing companies that cared about LinkedIn seeing information is far smaller than the number of companies that compete with Microsoft in some way. Never mind the fact that Microsoft owns a platform used by the vast majority of devices.

Re: Microsoft to acquire LinkedIn for $26B

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Post by simonswords82 »

r2dnb wrote: post #701
simonswords82 wrote: post #548

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I just don't see it. I don't see something this low level spun up to board level. I'm also not sure what "new Microsoft" you're referring to. Their attitude is much much better under Satya; they're not perfect but they're moving in the right direction. The board level may very well have set down a strategy which was "Hey, computers that are running old versions of our OS are a real pain. Let's tell our OS team that w…

We're not talking about the "upgrade to Windows 10 update", but about the routine updates that are pushed to your Windows 10 system at random times without your consent. You also overlook that very often, once these updates are applied you can notice that new applications as essential as "Candy Crush Saga" have been installed on your system. I guess the "technical peeps" you mention thought users would enjoy the game…

We can happily agree to disagree - I think that on the whole Microsoft are a good company, they do good things, and I see no reason to beat them up for what I believe are minor mistakes in the grand scheme of things.

Re: Microsoft to acquire LinkedIn for $26B

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Post by simonswords82 »

spriggan3 wrote: post #415
simonswords82 wrote: post #133

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Yahoo were borderline negligent with that purchase. I suspect the shareholders and board at Microsoft have a much better idea of what they're planning to do to monetise Linked In.

> Yahoo were borderline negligent with that purchase That's not what most HNers were saying at that time, they were praising Mayer and her "awesome strategy" of shopping her way into success. Of course it didn't make sense at all, like that deal makes very little sense at all too.

Wow - I decided to look up the thread from when the acquisition was announced and I'm shocked at how positive the news was taken by the HN crowd:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5737185

Looks like we've got an army of Captain Hindsight's here now given I never hear anybody defend the purchase on HN now it clearly is a flop.

Furthermore Forbes wrote an article on why the acquisition was a bad idea, and HNers beat it up!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5737400

Re: Microsoft to acquire LinkedIn for $26B

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Post by bbcbasic »

ifdefdebug wrote: post #368
id122015 wrote: post #164

how many of you use Microsoft OR Linkedin ? Upvote if result is: NO

There seems to be a rather common misconception surfacing on every single thread about Microsoft, which could be summarized like this: HN User => !MS user && MS user => !HN user

If this hypothesis is correct there are no HN users.

Re: Microsoft to acquire LinkedIn for $26B

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Post by josephmx »

zjaffee wrote: post #733
exelius wrote: post #299

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…

This is much bigger than that. Linkedin has around 7k employees in the bay area, far more than Microsoft currently has down here. This acquisition will transform Microsoft into a major bay area Employeer, with >10k people working in the region.

Why in the world does LinkedIn need 7k employees?
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