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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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| 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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| 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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| 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 … | 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.| Apple: |
Live stream of Apple's WWDC 2016 keynote address viewable in Safari, Microsoft Edge, and on Apple TV — Requirements: Live streaming uses Apple's HTTP Live Streaming (HLS) technology. HLS requires an iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch with Safari on iOS 7. or later, a Mac with Safari 6..5 or later …
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
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 that could let it go public thanks to a slew of important updates to its ads offering. They'll give advertisers the spotlight …
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| Andrew Webster / The Verge: |
Microsoft debuts Xbox One S, 40% smaller than original Xbox One, 4K Ultra HD support, available in August for $399 with 2TB HD; 500GB version coming for $299 — The Xbox One just got a lot smaller. Announced today at E3 in Los Angeles (and leaked a day earlier), the new Xbox One S takes … | Bloomberg: |
“The Lean Startup” author Eric Ries raises seed round and begins discussions with SEC to launch a “long-term” stock exchange to move beyond a quarterly cycle — The author of “The Lean Startup” and his team are in early talks with the Securities and Exchange Commission| Elise Ackerman / Forbes: |
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 Skaugen, Intel's senior PC exec said at Computex Taipei 2015.
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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 … Sponsor Posts
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