Microsoft Is Buying LinkedIn For $26.2 Billion (microsoft.com) 365
Microsoft on Monday announced it is acquiring LinkedIn, the social network for professionals, for a whopping sum of $26 billion -- or $196 per share, in cash. The transactions, the companies say, has already been approved by both boards. As part of the agreement, LinkedIn will get to keep its branding, and will become part of Microsoft's productivity and business processes segment. Jeff Weiner will remain CEO of LinkedIn, and now report to Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella. In a statement, Nadella said: The LinkedIn team has grown a fantastic business centered on connecting the world's professionals. Together we can accelerate the growth of LinkedIn, as well as Microsoft Office 365 and Dynamics as we seek to empower every person and organization on the planet.LinkedIn has over 430M members on its network. LinkedIn's purchase marks Microsoft's 196th acquisition of another company -- it is incidentally also its most expensive purchase. Four years ago, Weiner laughed at the idea of a Microsoft buyout. Update: 06/13 13:31 GMT by M :According to Bloomberg, LinkedIn shares surged 49 percent in premarket trading in New York to $194.63. Microsoft fell 3.7 percent to $49.60.
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Re:Another one bites the dust (Score:5, Informative)
Less creepy? Try windows 10.
Try DECLINING Windows 10 (Score:4, Interesting)
> Less creepy? Try windows 10.
Just try DECLINING Windows 10. What MS does then is creepy.
Okay, so the Windows 10 telemetry is creepy too.
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I hate there is no provision to downgrade Apps from the Google Play Store, but that is a separate issue.
My tablet just got screwed due to that. My Moto Xoom (which is only 4 years old) crashed the other day. So I restored it to factory and then started installing the only update there was (Android ICS) and all the apps that were on it. But I couldn't install all the apps because Play wants to install only the latest version of an app. And for many apps, the latest version is not compatible with my tablet. So I lost many apps. The xoom serves my purpose and so I would like to continue using it for another 4 ye
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Fodder for subpoenas and fishing expeditions (Score:5, Interesting)
Of course, the W10 telemetry is seriously nosey. But as this is M$ we are talking about, I ultimately cannot see them doing much useful with it.
It's not what Microsoft willingly does with the telemetry data as much as what third parties can compel MIcrosoft to do with it. For example, even basic telemetry collects a list of applications and device drivers on a system, as well as the IMEI of any connected air card. I can think of cases where the list of apps and drivers may be evidence against a user in a civil or criminal case alleging copyright infringement or circumvention of digital restrictions management.
Re:Another one bites the dust (Score:5, Interesting)
I ultimately cannot see them doing much useful with it..
Who says that Microsoft wants to do anything with all that data . . . ? Maybe, just maybe, Microsoft is passing all this data on to some folks who CAN do something with all this data . . .
Re:Another one bites the dust (Score:5, Interesting)
MS must just have cash to burn. This is one of the stupidest acquisitions I have ever heard of. Best I can tell, LinkedIn, serves most people as nothing more than a centrally-maintained contact list so they can find somewhat current contact info for former coworkers. Where is the revenue stream in that?
Has LinkedIn *ever* turned a profit?
Microsoft is rapidly devolving into the most clueless tech firm out there...
Re:Another one bites the dust (Score:5, Insightful)
This is one of the stupidest acquisitions I have ever heard of.
Not at all, they get pretty much a real list of millions of people along with some real data. Far more valuable for MS than say FBs data IMNSHO. The bad part for MS? Anyone intelligent only uses LinkedIn as a public advertising board. That still doesn't diminish the value of full access to the data. I can see me adding all LinkedIn email to an auto-delete rule in the near future.
Re:Another one bites the dust (Score:5, Interesting)
If you want to get into the "You are the product" social networking business of selling people's data or mining it for your own marketing purposes, then MSFT buying out LinkedIn makes perfect sense.
They've also completely failed at mobile, and this may represent a way for them to still tap the data that lives mobile.
Re:Another one bites the dust (Score:5, Informative)
From an article on The Verge:
While many financial analysts will be inspecting the details more closely, a lot of onlookers simply want to know... why? Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has sent an internal memo to staff about the LinkedIn acquisition, and it attempts to answer why the company is interested in the social networking giant.
Nadella hints that LinkedIn will help play into its Office software in the future. One feature will be LinkedIn's newsfeed "that serves up articles based on the project you are working on and Office suggesting an expert to connect with via LinkedIn to help with a task you're trying to complete." Nadella sees a future where LinkedIn can be more intelligent and feed into Office 365. "New opportunities will be created for monetization through individual and organization subscriptions and targeted advertising," says Nadella.
Re:Another one bites the dust (Score:5, Insightful)
Who in the **** wants to be interrupted by LinkedIn when they are working, with a "recommendation for an expert on a task you're trying to complete"?
LMFAO
Re:Another one bites the dust (Score:5, Funny)
You're not "social" enough, dude!
Re:Another one bites the dust (Score:5, Funny)
"It looks like you're trying to write a Total Requirements Statement. Would you like to connect to Clippy on LinkedIn?"
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Came here to say this. Well done!
Re:Another one bites the dust (Score:4, Funny)
two horrible things that don't get better together (Score:3)
FUCK NOPE!
That little bastard Clippy... (Score:5, Funny)
That little bastard Clippy...better not "fix" my resume.
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Then you'd be better off starting your own than dropping 26 billion dollars on a domain name. There's nothing stopping your "products" from simply walking away. And Microsoft has a pretty bad track record when it can't abuse lock-in.
Re:Another one bites the dust (Score:5, Informative)
Their revenue is from a circle-jerk of recruiters. We placed a few ads with LinkedIn for engineers, but the results were miserable. Many of their problems can be fixed, but it doesn't look like that is MS's goal. This seems more like pissing away $25B, which is about what the drop in their market cap is equal to.
Re:Another one bites the dust (Score:5, Interesting)
I have applied for and accepted, as well as been recruited for and accepted, jobs which I found through LinkedIn.
That being said, the constant tidal wave of messages and requests to connect from headhunters when I am not in the job market is the reason why I never sign in to LinkedIn unless I am in the job market.
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The thing about MS. If they have a revenue drop, they just hike the price for Windows Server and other enterprise grade items, and come out ahead for that quarter.
Re:Another one bites the dust (Score:5, Informative)
Yeah they make about $300 million in profit every year. This means that by 2100 LinkedIn will become a pure profit machine for Microsoft. Those guys think long term!
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Since Microsoft now have their hands in LinkedIn I'll plan to bail out of that.
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For starters, it is becoming the best hiring tool on the planet. It's already strong, with 6.5 million job listings, and 94% of recruiters use the site. (source [expandedramblings.com]). But it is inherently superior to its competitors because recruiters can compare candidates claimed experiences with their professional social network.
LinkedIn will beat Monster in recruiting for the same reason that Facebook beat MySpace. Even though MySpace, at one point, had more registered users th
Re:Another one bites the dust (Score:5, Insightful)
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Google contacted me for an position based upon my LinkedIn profile. Several of my friends who have their own companies use it pretty much exclusively when looking for new candidates.
I'd say there's at least a little validity to what bengoerz has said. I don't know how accurate the numbers are but it's quite clear that LinkedIn has growth potential in the area of recruiting.
Re:Another one bites the dust (Score:4, Informative)
The problem is that neither their claimed experience nor their professional social network are authoritative... both can be made up, and in my experience, LinkedIn is just a list of people who want to establish the maximum number of connections, regardless of the reality of the professional connection. I last signed in to LinkedIn probably 3-4 years ago, but when I was actively using it, it was easily 50:1 people who I had never met or heard of who wanted to connect with me.
Re:Another one bites the dust (Score:5, Interesting)
It works like this, a recruiter wants access to the HR or C level exec at a company. So, the recruiter sends out a contact request to the 300 employees of that company hoping that a few will accept. And of the Few that accept, there's a decent chance they have connections to real targets in the co.
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MS must just have cash to burn. This is one of the stupidest acquisitions I have ever heard of. Best I can tell, LinkedIn, serves most people as nothing more than a centrally-maintained contact list so they can find somewhat current contact info for former coworkers. Where is the revenue stream in that?
Has LinkedIn *ever* turned a profit?
Microsoft is rapidly devolving into the most clueless tech firm out there...
Linkedin makes a lot of money through job listings. It's very expensive to list a job opening.
But no, Linkedin is not currently profitable. On the other hand, they have a lot of cash ($3.16B). and revenue is up 35% for the current quarter.
Microsoft is an unregulated monopoly. (Score:2, Interesting)
"... business ethics of Linkedin." It is interesting to me to see that someone else has the same opinion of LinkedIn.
It amazes me how seldom people deal with the conflicts and try to defend themselves
Re:Another one bites the dust (Score:4, Interesting)
Not just that, but how much more evidence do we need that *all* of these properties have limited lifespans.
I look forward to the MySpacing of LinkedIn.
Re:Another one bites the dust (Score:5, Funny)
Well, you can't say they haven't learned anything from their experience. This time they're skipping a step and just buying the manure.
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Has Xbox won a generation yet? (Score:3)
Has Xbox won a generation yet? The PlayStation 2 soundly beat the original Xbox, and the underpowered Wii beat the more powerful Xbox 360 in all regions [wikipedia.org]. Early Xbox One sales were marred by loss of goodwill from #dealwithit [ign.com], and the PlayStation 4 is reportedly beating its competition nearly two to "One" after two years [arstechnica.com].
After the deal... (Score:5, Funny)
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Or OutLinked.
Another "data source" (Score:4, Insightful)
I can just imagine how Microsoft will use this together with all the "telemetry" obtained via windows 10, swiftkey, code compiled with VS2015, skype conversations, office 360 documents, etc.
So, I did the only sensible thing, and have just deleted my linkedin profile, as I had done at the acquisition time with swiftkey. Bye bye samaritan, you will probably still get my data but will have to try harder...
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So, I did the only sensible thing, and have just deleted my linkedin profile...
I'm sure it left no trace at all.
Re:Another "data source" (Score:5, Funny)
LinkedIn data is stored in MySQL. It's just a matter of time before your profile goes away by itself anyways.
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I'm pretty sure it was even more a poetic gesture than deleting my swiftkey account. As you state, my info is already out there and catalogued by every search engine. It is more a statement on how I don't want anything to do with the kings of "telemetry" than anything else.
And with the advantage that even if I am tempted to update it and add more info, I need to start from scratch and that is too much of an effort.
Re:Another "data source" (Score:4, Insightful)
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How do you go about actually deleting your linkedin profile?
Best I can find is the ability to delete it from the site or to terminate an account, both of which would only make the profile invisible to end-users, but keep all of it stored in the database.
Re:Another "data source" (Score:4, Informative)
Of course the info is stored.... do you think they would willingly let you delete the data that makes them valuable?
Your Real Name, Real Resume, Real Job History, Real list of working acquaintances, Real Address, Real Phone number, and possibly Real Salary history is too 'mine-able' when added to the win10 telemetry, skype info, online 365 info.
Now all that Real Data belongs to MS. And there's nothing you or I can do about it.
Huge acquisition, MS fails... (Score:4, Insightful)
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I fully expect Microsoft to start some severe data mining of the site now.
Oh great (Score:5, Informative)
Microsoft buys yet another Internet giant.
Excuse me, I have to go delete my LinkedIn account now.
Re:Oh great (Score:5, Insightful)
Why? Linkedin is probably your most scrubbed and polished version of yourself that you would post on the internet. If FB is a picture of you sitting in your underwear on the couch nursing a hangover, LinkedIn is you taking a professional photo wearing a tux.
It is a place that you want the world to see and this deal will mean nothing to the users of the site. It may provide some enhanced tools (Office 365 integration) to buff up your resume, but I fail to see how it even matters otherwise.
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You assume there's even a single photo of me on either website.
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You assume there isnt. You never know what your acquaintances have uploaded.
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False.... I got plenty of offers and calls without a photo on the site.
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If you think that - then you haven't seen much of the internet.
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Can't help thinking abt the tease for next week's (Score:2)
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Can we please, please, please stop with the Clippy jokes?
I get it, you used a computer in the 90's and therefor have street cred...
The thing is, even at the time, Clippy was not that annoying. And anyone who knew how to install software, even then, could easily not install the stupid thing by doing a custom install and unselecting that feature.
Clippy was annoying, but we see WAY worse stuff these days anyway.
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Clippy is a joke in part because it was annoying, but moreso in how it was actually pretty condescending in many ways toward the user.
The described use case can strike people in the same way. Auto-suggesting guys on linked in who claim to have experience with what you are trying to do? It seems a bit silly in the same way that clippy's 'suggestions' were silly at the time, all while being condescending (unintentionally). You seem to be trying to project manage this... poorly, here's a guy who would be be
What's the motivation? (Score:5, Insightful)
Sure, Microsoft hasn't displayed any competence when it comes to creating or running a social media site, so what's the purpose behind buying LinkedIn?
The data? The technology (wtf)? What's the move here, because I'm not seeing it. There's no obvious tie-in to the x-box. There's nothing to integrate into their OS or Office. Skype is dying on the vine -- and again, what's there to integrate into the existing software? Autopopulate a post to the professional dude-bro's hangout? What sense does that make?
Re:What's the motivation? (Score:5, Interesting)
what's the purpose behind buying LinkedIn?
MS is in a horsewhip business (Desktop OS and Office) and are trying to preserve the company. What else could they do but thrash?
Enterprise tech is losing market cap. Console gaming never became profitable. Smartphone and search failed to gain any traction. They will keep doing these random acquisitions until something works or they run out of capital. Kind of like IBM.
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And everything they touch these days becomes infertile crap.
Random mutation (Score:4, Interesting)
Microsoft's old business model doesn't work anymore... when that happens staying still === death, and trying new things costs money... however being Microsoft they have masses of capital to burn, so everything is worth the risk, so they do that (they try everything) this seems to have been their business strategy for the past decade... everything is worth the risk, they are basically too big to fail provided they keep trying things. It's almost like the random mutation component of evolution.
The massive downside to this unfocused approach is that they appear to be flippant, inconsistent and undedicated to anything new they do. So even setting aside the many other issues people have against Microsoft such as undertones of malice and exploitation towards users, world domination etc, it makes their products seem even more undesirable.
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It is a brand that helps them maintain relevance. Unfortunately, I doubt their plans to create synergy are anything I will like.
Microsoft Board: Satya Nadella is not competent. (Score:5, Interesting)
Quotes from Satya Nadella: [theverge.com]
"I have been learning about LinkedIn for some time..." That's not the sort of thing to say about a $26.2 billion purchase. He learned for "some time"? No one else was involved? There was no detailed examination by many managers?
Corporate jargon: [I have been] "also reflecting on how networks can truly differentiate cloud services."
Corporate jargon: "I consider if an asset will expand our opportunity -- specifically, does it expand our total addressable market?" What is the difference between a market and an "addressable market"?
"Is this asset riding secular usage and technology trends?" What?? I wondered if I understood the meaning of the word "secular". I did. It means "denoting attitudes, activities, or other things that have no religious or spiritual basis". I can certainly agree that Microsoft is not religious or spiritual. Satya Nadella wants Microsoft to "ride trends".
CREEPY: "...vibrant network that brings together a professional's information in LinkedIn's public network with the information in Office 365..." Wow! Microsoft will be watching what you type?
VERY CREEPY: "This combination will make it possible for new experiences such as a LinkedIn newsfeed that serves up articles based on the project you are working on and Office suggesting an expert to connect with via LinkedIn to help with a task you're trying to complete."
SCARY: "...new opportunities will be created for monetization through individual and organization subscriptions and targeted advertising." To me, that means that I should create an even greater distance between myself and Microsoft. I don't want to be "monetized".
RENT ONLY? "...we have moved Office from a set of productivity tools to a cloud service across any platform and device." Translation: We don't want you to be able to buy our software. We make more money if you rent it.
"... we can reinvent ways to make professionals more productive" They are already invented, but you will re-invent them?
"reinventing selling, marketing and talent management business processes" Satya Nadella, why do you make wild statements with no specific meaning? (Also, no Oxford comma.)
"I can't wait to see what our teams dream up..." Translation: At present, he has NO idea what Microsoft will do. He will wait to see. Dreaming.
"A big part of this deal is accelerating LinkedIn's growth." Perhaps LinkedIn is at the END of its growth.
Corporate jargon: "...keep the LinkedIn team focused on driving results..."
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"... we'll pick key projects where we can go deep together that will ultimately result in new experiences for customers." Apparent translation: We have NO idea at present what we will do.
Corporate jargon: "... sharing our vision to empower professionals".
My opinion: Satya Nadella, what you said above indicates you are not able to manage a company. Apparently you were chosen to be CEO because you were the least annoying candidate. The fact that you were chosen indicates that the Microsoft Board of Directors is not competent.
Re:What's the motivation? (Score:4, Interesting)
Combine it with Win10 telemetry and you have a huge datamining business with a really strong grip on a huge swath of the developed world's business data.
I'd actually be kind of surprised if at some point there wasn't a national security conversation on the risks of this much power and information in the hands of one company.
Mediocre ppl with no imagination! (Score:5, Interesting)
If i were dabbling in stocks i would short MSFT immediately. This is stupider than their NOKIA acquisition. Most of these companies are run by mediocre people with no imagination and too much money.
Worse than useless (Score:5, Interesting)
Now I just use LinkedIn to see what people look like, nothing else.
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As long as a recruiter does not realize this as well, I'm totally fine with it.
Re:Worse than useless (Score:5, Interesting)
Not that recruiters actually READ your profile, they scan for keywords and spam you a job req based on those keywords. That's why I constantly get pings about Java Developer jobs, and SQL DBA jobs, despite my profile showing quite clearly I'm a Security Geek. . .
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But those are all computer jobs aren't they? /StupidRecruiters
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Just hide clueless skill recommendations on your profile. You can control what to display.
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Since I'm retired, I volunteer with the Redcross, and have several contacts from the local chapter as "friends" in LinkedIn.. Since I do no IT work with the Redcross or these contacts, they would have absolutely no knowledge or reason to "endorse" me for any IT skills, yet, I got several "endorsements" by these folks for IT stuff.. Pretty much tells me this "endorsement" crap is totally bogus. Also when I retired, I decided I was done with MS products, after using/supporting them for close to 20 years, putt
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Yeah, the endorsement thing is a little ridiculous, however, I thought that you had to first put those skills on your profile.
I will personally never endorse someone for a skill that I haven't witnessed proficiency in first hand.
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I've never once "approved" an endorsement and they show up on my profile all the time. I get endorsements from a lot of people who don't know anything about what I do. I have two actual endorsements from people I've worked with, written in their own words and posted on my profile. All the generic "security" "clearance" "integration" bullshit pre-fab endorsements are useless. I refuse to endorse anyone else either, unless I've actually worked with them and then (if I ever do it) I'll write something myse
At least it's an easy transfer! (Score:3)
60 bucks per user? (Score:5, Insightful)
60 bucks per user? Speaking in a purely personal capacity, that's way over the odds.
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Ahahaha (Score:3)
Well, there goes the neighbourhood! (Score:5, Interesting)
It might be time to close my LinkedIn account and get the flock outta there. I've pretty much avoided social networking - no Facebook, no Twitter, etc. - but LinkedIn seemed to be almost a necessity for job hunting. But I read recently that I'm already out of contention for most jobs anyway, because I'm not on FB, and because my online presence is mostly pseudonymous, which means it doesn't exist as far as most prospective employers are concerned. Apparently that's a real red flag for HR types. So I guess I'm hooped anyway, and dumping LinkedIn won't significantly hinder my already dismal job prospects.
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Note that people without social networking profiles will soon become social outcasts denied jobs, water, housing and food; lets see how that works out for you ha ha.
You have identified why Microsoft have paid 26 Billion bits of virtual paper for LinkedIn Soon no one alive today will be able to get a job without a LinkedIn account. And as we all know the future of capitalism is in selling you shit in the cloud. So Microsoft very sensibly just bought an access portal which is connected to every single useful
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-- Microsoft is going for "Free as in herpes"
I love your sig... I've taken to calling Windows 10 a CTD, a "Computer-Transmitted Disease" or "Windows NSA Edition", if you prefer...
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LinkedIn seemed to be almost a necessity for job hunting
Perhaps, if you want to work in really bad places. I've never had a LinkedIn profile (and the amount of spam that I get from them is enough to ensure that I never want one) and yet had no shortage of offers last time I was looking for a job. You might want to get someone who has been on the other end of a hiring process to look at your CV. Some of the ones that I see are truly terrible, yet people seem to think that they're sensible to submit for jobs.
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Well, you're a cat. And everybody on the Internet thinks you're a dog.
That's the problem right there.
Quit whingeing. Join github. (Score:5, Interesting)
If you want a professional presence that makes a difference, get active on github and post examples of your work: products, projects, utilities, documents, etc. Contribute to an open project there, even if it's just to clean up documentation (or add docs or howtos).
Constructive examples of your work will say more about you to prospective employers than a LinkedIn e-resume ever could.
Re: Well, there goes the neighbourhood! (Score:4, Interesting)
I was a hold-out as well. I joined FB mostly just to control my own narrative.
I created a profile and then posted a sort of "work blog" for a while in the form of pictures taken on customer premises (with permission, of course) with notations (like: look at this wiring closet before/after, etc).
I don't do it any more, but it really helped my job searches later on.
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Good news, your account will never be deleted only flagged as such....
Quite smart strategic move (Score:5, Interesting)
Lets guess: When you create an MS account, you are also included in the LinkedIn user catalogue. In due time, when you want to edit your profile, anything but basic edits will require an Office 365 subscription.
In the Dynamics suite, it is not only about Employee Master, Customer Master, but also about the Organization domain: You will need to model your organization in a way accessible to LinkedIn, and instances of today's Dynamics suite will benefit from being able to do B2B better by getting direct access to the org structures, and signature rights, of people also in your business partner companies.
Also, as Skype is not on the way up in hype, one also procures a user base for Skype.
And, how will this work with Microsofts extensive 3rd-party strategy: I assume that to work with 'higher tier' 3rd parties, you need LinkedIn profiles for remote access. Furthermore, 3rd parties will be able to purchase access to organizational structures in LinkedIn.
All in all, some parts are actually of benefit to corporations. However, this is also a way of getting organizations onto the higher end of the Microsoft agreement scale: Expensive, not necessary, but does allower less competent persons to administer large amount of users.
This is not about technology. This is a quite clever ecosystem move, an art many of today's players seem to have forgotten. Imagine some next steps: Product promotion, sales, information from Dynamics instances, across the ecosystem enabled by the mesh of business users actually on LinkedIn. Microsoft does need to counter FB, Apple, Samsung, Sony and Ali, whom by them targetting B2C users is building a platform for going for the lucrative B2B.
Signed, Lars Bratthall.
Data harvesting (Score:5, Insightful)
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The amount of data that Microsoft has purchased, and will be able to harvest on a continual basis, has just increased by orders of magnitude.
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Data harvesting appears to be Microsoft's new strategic focus.
That explains the dialog? (Score:5, Funny)
Microsoft is the cancer, not Linux (Score:2)
I also found more am more odd that so many users have nothing to say in this kind of transaction.
No. (Score:2)
Time to unlink() LinkedIn.
Maximum Transaction Time exceeded (Score:5, Informative)
When trying to download my data from LinkedIn now I get "Maximum Transaction Time exceeded".
I can imagine that there's a crapload of people trying to bail out now!
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Seeing the mass exodus after M$ announced their acquisition, I am glad I had the foresight to delete my account before the "Slashdot" effect.
Automatic upgrade (Score:2)
A fantastic purchase (Score:5, Interesting)
Imagine office integration where you can easily share documents, send messages, and video conference among LinkedIn contacts. That's just the beginning, with a bit more work on the LinkedIn side, the social graph on LinkedIn could easily translate to the company's entire intranet, a public/private social network amalgam. Hope that MS is thinking this big.
Re:A fantastic purchase (Score:5, Insightful)
Imagine office integration where you can easily share documents, send messages, and video conference among LinkedIn contacts.
Have you ever wanted to do that? LinkedIn is mostly my social graph with people I don't work with anymore.
So Thankful (Score:3)
I am so grateful that I never created a LinkedIn account. I receive requests from people everyday to link in to their profiles, but since I have no social media accounts I've declined getting Linked In. But recently I've been thinking that maybe I should at least have a LinkedIn account for networking. Thank goodness I dodged that bullet.
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Those whopping numbers show one thing: how desperate capitalism is.
Non sequiturs make me eat lampshades.
Re:R.I.P. (Score:5, Funny)
Don't be so negative. That's what people said about Tumblr when Yahoo bought them, and yet, see how it became even more popular and how that acquisition was the catalyst for Yahoo's revival under the competent leadership of Marissa Mayer?