Microsoft buys LinkedIn for $26.2 billion

My company won't adopt anything new; too big to be that nimble. We just fully got off XP a couple years ago.

 

I get that. I'm glad you guys were able to pivot off XP... My university still uses XP on all our instruments.

 

I just redownloaded it to check it out, as it is seemingly now more about the "stories" then messaging. And I get it now. They are trying to be an interesting amalgamation of Facebook/Instagram/Youtube in a sense, with a heavy emphasis on being a content company.. a new age tv channel of sorts.

I'm still not going to use it a lot, but I get the direction.

There was an article recently with their revenue stats. I think their last 4 quarter revenue was like $2 million, $5 million, $17 million, $33 million (Q4 2015)... something like that. As that's not with a ton of effort, and they've only like this week released any sort of legitimate ad apis/tools/analytics, you can see where its going. I think they're estimating $350 million of 2016 revenue. They also recently hired a guy that was basically in charge of advertising at facebook. So, their moves make sense...

 

Apple will make the next huge acquisition. That pile of cash has to be used for something.