{"id":130866,"date":"2016-06-13T07:21:04","date_gmt":"2016-06-13T13:21:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/06\/13\/microsoft-is-buying-linkedin.html"},"modified":"2016-06-13T07:21:04","modified_gmt":"2016-06-13T13:21:04","slug":"microsoft-is-buying-linkedin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/06\/13\/microsoft-is-buying-linkedin.html","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft is buying LinkedIn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Welp, sounds like it&#39;s time to land a job.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>But seriously &#8230; having been so freaking <i>immersed<\/i> in LinkedIn over the last 10 months, I&#39;ll be curious to see what changes this leads to. It feels like a very different kind of acquisition &#8212; a service \/ site \/ destination, rather than a chunk of software.<\/p>\n<p>I&#39;m sure we&#39;ll learn more over time as to MS&#39;s plans, but I &#39;m hopeful for a good top-to-bottom clean-up and UI improvement. Not that I expect to be closely monitoring LinkedIn for very much longer (knocks on wood).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/06\/14\/business\/dealbook\/microsoft-to-buy-linkedin-for-26-2-billion.html'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/V7N5AfV4rVnu4F5R-_tjCGR1hrbouR1y-xx0Z5i9LxO_1FsZEhqJNNtF0NId1BDAW6xWd1fj4Dj46QfzSD67dZn1qLdpYjFU5blPtWcZZPxCsRYj6VxWnPKEJiKjk4gHnfzqu9ZyE1NrjE3ZtMcZ7wDi3uBrFhMlaA=w506-h910' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/06\/14\/business\/dealbook\/microsoft-to-buy-linkedin-for-26-2-billion.html'>Microsoft to Buy LinkedIn for $26.2 Billion<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nMicrosoft said it would pay $196 a share to acquire LinkedIn, the business social network site.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/8tLSAq6fKXE'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welp, sounds like it&#39;s time to land a job. But seriously &#8230; having been so freaking immersed in LinkedIn over the last 10 months, I&#39;ll be curious to see what changes this leads to. It feels like a very different kind of acquisition &#8212; a service \/ site \/ destination, rather than a chunk of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/06\/13\/microsoft-is-buying-linkedin.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Microsoft is buying LinkedIn&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":28157,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/06\/06\/well-at-last-a-compelling-reason-to-go-to-my-linkedin-profile.html","url_meta":{"origin":130866,"position":0},"title":"Well, at last a compelling reason to go to my LinkedIn profile","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 6-Jun-12 11:19am","format":false,"excerpt":"To change my password.I've never felt terribly comfortable with LinkedIn -- too much cross-connecting between professional and private lives for me. 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