Microsoft to buy LinkedIn for $26.2B, Jeff Weiner to remain CEO, reporting to Satya Nadella
Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq: MSFT) and LinkedIn Corporation (NYSE: LNKD) on Monday announced they have entered into a definitive agreement under which Microsoft will acquire LinkedIn for $196 per share …
Satya Nadella email to employees on acquisition of LinkedIn
I'm excited to share that today Microsoft announced a deal to acquire LinkedIn. You can see how Jeff Weiner, the CEO of LinkedIn, and I envision the opportunity ahead in this public presentation.
Image of Xbox One S leaks online: 40% smaller, 2TB HDD, 4K video playback, HDR support
In less than 24 hours, Microsoft will host its E3 press conference. The software maker is expected to launch a smaller, slimmer version of the Xbox One, and a fresh leak on the NeoGAF forums today is...
In email to staff, LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner assures employees the company will be a “fully independent entity within Microsoft”
This is the email I sent to LinkedIn's global workforce today. I thought it might be interesting to others, too, so I've decided to publish it publicly.
With LinkedIn buy, Microsoft is buying the company organization chart for the whole world
CEO Satya Nadella says the acquisition will be “key to our bold ambition to reinvent productivity and business processes.” — Microsoft missed the mobile wave. Now Satya Nadella says he's …
New OSVR HDK2 headset has 2160x1200 resolution, goes on sale in July for $399; Razer puts $5M toward OSVR Developer Fund content accelerator program
OSVR announced an updated version of its open source virtual reality hardware development kit, the HDK2, which includes a far superior display.
Microsoft and LinkedIn have non-overlapping graphs of data pertaining to business professionals, which is key to the acquisition
Microsoft and LinkedIn have been building largely non-overlapping graphs of various kinds of data pertaining to business professionals.
Symantec to buy Blue Coat Systems for $4.65B; Blue Coat CEO Greg Clark to become Symantec CEO after deal closes, which will likely be before October
Computer-security company to gain portfolio of cyberdefense technologies along with a new CEO — Symantec Corp. plans to buy Blue Coat Systems Inc …
Snapchat rolls out Snap Ads Between Stories, a new Ads API, and many ad improvements; all ads will be reviewed
Snapchat is ready to make the big bucks with a slew of important updates to its ads offering. They'll give advertisers the spotlight, buying flexibility, return on investment opportunities …
SMS Assist, which connects property managers with outside vendors like landscapers and window washers, raises $150M from Goldman Sachs at a $1B valuation
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After growing the service to 280M monthly users and 710K paid subscribers, Vimeo CEO Kerry Trainor steps down
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Intel Ceases Work On Wireless Charging
For the last three years, Intel has been stoking demand for PCs ahead of the next big buying cycle with the promise that new machines will be totally wireless. “We carry around a lot of wires,” Kirk ...
AR startup Blippar unveils its “visual browser” app for recognizing real-world objects using machine learning
Ambarish Mitra, CEO of London startup Blippar, came out with the bold statement last year that what he was working on could be “bigger than the internet itself”.
EA's Peter Moore lays out tiered esports strategy, from Challenger Events that let everyone host events with EA titles, to EA Majors with $1M in prizes
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Sources: China Life Insurance to invest more than $500M in Didi Chuxing despite having already invested in UberChina
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Domino's to test feature to delay cooking for takeout orders until your phone's GPS alerts the restaurant that you're nearby
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Hacker “Peace” on his or her motives, making $25K in a month from public sales of LinkedIn, MySpace, Tumblr data, and the 1B site logins still not published
For the last two weeks, the tech world's security teams have been practically under siege.
How Uber and Lyft created opportunity for Arcade City, which is using a Facebook group with 30K+ members to facilitate rides in Austin before launching an app
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Founders of Lyft Logan Green and John Zimmer on autonomous cars, Uber, Carl Icahn, and the global ride-hailing alliance with Ola, Didi, and Grab
Maya Kosoff / Vanity Fair : Tweets: @lyft Tweets: @lyft : “We have a chance to re-create our cities with the people, rather than cars, at the center:” http://www.vanityfair.com/... http://twitter.com...
As traditional polling methods become unreliable, Civis, a startup founded by Obama campaign alums, uses its databases to more effectively target polls
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Inside the transformation of Microsoft, as its bets on the cloud, open source, and a more open and agile culture start paying off
Andrew Nusca / Fortune : Tweets: @fortunemagazine , @fortunemagazine and @microsoft Tweets: Fortune / @fortunemagazine : Microsoft has invested more than $15 billion in data center capacity since 198...
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