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Microsoft buys LinkedIn for $26.2 billion

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  1. Haymitch

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    My company won't adopt anything new; too big to be that nimble. We just fully got off XP a couple years ago.
     
  2. Pizza_Da_Hut

    Pizza_Da_Hut I put on pants for this?

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    I get that. I'm glad you guys were able to pivot off XP... My university still uses XP on all our instruments.
     
  3. JayZ750

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    I just redownloaded it to check it out, as it is seemingly now more about the "stories" then messaging. And I get it now. They are trying to be an interesting amalgamation of Facebook/Instagram/Youtube in a sense, with a heavy emphasis on being a content company.. a new age tv channel of sorts.

    I'm still not going to use it a lot, but I get the direction.

    There was an article recently with their revenue stats. I think their last 4 quarter revenue was like $2 million, $5 million, $17 million, $33 million (Q4 2015)... something like that. As that's not with a ton of effort, and they've only like this week released any sort of legitimate ad apis/tools/analytics, you can see where its going. I think they're estimating $350 million of 2016 revenue. They also recently hired a guy that was basically in charge of advertising at facebook. So, their moves make sense...
     
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    Apple will make the next huge acquisition. That pile of cash has to be used for something.
     

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