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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 …
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| Satya Nadella / Microsoft: |
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.
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| Jeff Weiner / LinkedIn Pulse: |
LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner's email to staff on Microsoft's acquisition — 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. — December 15th, 2008, marked the first day of the best job I've ever had.
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| Recode: |
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 …
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ZDNet, Ars Technica, Windows Central, ITworld.com, Fortune and The Merkle
| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
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.
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Telegraph and Business Insider
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
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 providing our first look at the new console.
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| Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
What to expect at WWDC 2016: Siri SDK, Siri on the Mac, next versions of iOS and MacOS previewed, Apple Music revamp, refinements to tvOS and watchOS — WWDC is almost here — and this year, Apple has more to talk about than ever. That's because WWDC is Apple's software show …
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| Wall Street Journal: |
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 … | Andrew Nusca / Fortune: |
Inside the transformation of Microsoft, as its bets on the cloud, open source, and a more open and agile culture start paying off — Microsoft Will Serve You Now — The newly customer-friendly tech giant is bulking up on data centers, betting its future on cloud computing, and learning to be agile again.
Tweets: @fortunemagazine, @fortunemagazine and @microsoft
| Maya Kosoff / Vanity Fair: |
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 — The founders of Lyft talk about Uber, Carl Icahn, and driverless cars. — When Logan Green visited Zimbabwe, in 2005, he was taken aback …
Tweets: @lyft
| Konstantin Kakaes / MIT Technology Review: |
Why no high tech, high volume gadget like the iPhone can be made entirely in the US: cost, manufacturing capacity, and China's hold on rare earth elements — Political candidates opposed to free trade say Apple should make phones in the United States. Let's see what that would look like.
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9to5Mac, Inquirer, CIO.com, PhoneArena, Softpedia News, PYMNTS.com, eWeek and Silicon Valley Business …
Tweets: @valaafshar, @techreview, @fulhack and @valaafshar
| Aza Wee Sile / CNBC: |
Domino's to test feature to delay cooking for takeout orders until your phone's GPS alerts the restaurant that you're nearby — Domino's CEO: We can deliver pizza in under 10 minutes — Domino's Pizza CEO Don Meij explains how the pizza chain is trying to make ordering and delivery easier with technology.
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Digital Trends and The Verge
| Andrew Marantz / New Yorker: |
How HBO's “Silicon Valley” accurately portrays and satirizes Silicon Valley: extensive research and expert consultants — When Dick Costolo attended the University of Michigan, in the nineteen-eighties, his major was computer science, but he was surprised to find that he also had a knack for improv comedy.
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StrictlyVC and Business Insider. Tweets: @williamalden, @kottke, @mikeindustries, @laceyvrose, @arimelber and @newyorker
| Rex Sorgatz / Backchannel: |
Tweets: @jess, @karaswisher and @davemcclure
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