Microsoft buys LinkedIn for $26.2 billion cash @ AskWoody

Microsoft buys LinkedIn for $26.2 billion cash

Posted on June 13, 2016 at 11:05 CDT by woody • Comment in the Forums

Mind-boggling. We’ll see lots of analysis, but it looks like Steve Ballmer’s company just bought Reid Hoffman’s company.

LinkedIn runs on its own servers, not on Azure or AWS.

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