Microsoft just tossed away $26 billion buying linkedin ....

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So they spent $26 billion to acquire linkedin ....they could have spent those billions elsewhere in a much better way ....they completely overpaid for that company especially offering them close to a 50% premium hahah....if they were smarter they could have waited another few years and picked it up for $3 or 4 billion or maybe even less....linkedin wasn't going anywhere anytime soon...no one was interested in buying them...just another old school tech company trying to look cool and up to date by buying what they think is something extraordinary which is nothing more than another hyped up social networking company ....Microsoft over the past 20 years always seems to be behind the curve in everything they try to achieve in the new updated tech world. Again that $26 billion could have gone to something much more worthwhile than linkedin....




http://www.cnbc.com/2016/06/13/microsoft-to-buy-linkedin.html
 
And Microsoft's developer web site has degenerated to a mobile crap platform....
MS died. Only themselves don't want believe it...
 
Eccckks nuts, especially from history msft will axe all the staff that make it good, turn it into a junk site which everyone will leave.

Linked in creators will wait out there 2 years no competition then setup an oddly similar business, becoming the last nail in its coffin.

26BILLION for nothing, i guess 26 BILLION doesnt mean what it does to normal people, ie 1 billion times my current bank account value, almost literally.
 
Turveyd said:
Eccckks nuts, especially from history msft will axe all the staff that make it good, turn it into a junk site which everyone will leave.

Linked in creators will wait out there 2 years no competition then setup an oddly similar business, becoming the last nail in its coffin.

26BILLION for nothing, i guess 26 BILLION doesnt mean what it does to normal people, ie 1 billion times my current bank account value, almost literally.
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Exactly right....that's why it was a poor decision to make this buyout...Microsoft is going to put their personal touch into what they think people will want...I think msft bought them out for the accounts and info that linkedin has ...
 
CBC said:
Completely agree. They got Skype for a bargain then, for only $1 Bill.
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In 2011 they paid $8.5 billion for them hahahaha....another worthless acquisition... Does anyone use that? I used it maybe 15 times and haven't used it probably since 2012...
 
$8.5? I read $1 bill. Must have got the report wrong. I just checked then and it was $8.5 Bill

Still $26 Bill is very steep.

Do they even make $ outside of advertising?
 
S2007S said:
In 2011 they paid $8.5 billion for them hahahaha....another worthless acquisition... Does anyone use that? I used it maybe 15 times and haven't used it probably since 2012...
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"Skype’s traffic was almost 40% the size of the entire conventional international telecom market — that is, for every ten minutes spent making international phone calls on every mobile and landline network in the entire world, four minutes are spent on Skype. The service is gradually eating its industry."
 
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