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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: |
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.
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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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| 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.| 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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| Kevin Carbotte / Tom's Hardware: |
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.
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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 … | Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
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.| Lara O'Reilly / Business Insider: |
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”.
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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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| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
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 — The growth of esports in the past decade has been impressive, and now the game industry's biggest companies are diving into it.
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