Microsoft is paying $196 per share in an all-cash deal.That's 50% more than LinkedIn stock's closing price at the end of the day on Friday. The deal combines Microsoft, which dominates the global ...

REDMOND, Wash., and MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — June 13, 2016 — Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq: MSFT) and LinkedIn Corporation (NYSE: LNKD) on Monday announced they have entered into a definitive agreement under ...

Cindy Rose, Microsoft's chief operating officer for global enterprise sales, is leaving the tech behemoth to become CEO ...

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner. (Microsoft Photo) Microsoft’s deal to buy professional social network LinkedIn for $26.2 billion has officially closed.

Microsoft is scooping up LinkedIn for $26.2 billion, the companies said on Monday, in the tech giant's biggest acquisition yet. Microsoft will pay $196 per share in cash for the professional ...

The stakes are high for Microsoft and LinkedIn. This is one of the biggest tech M&A deals ever, topping even Facebook’s $22 billion purchase of WhatsApp. On paper, there is indeed reason for ...

Microsoft has reached a deal to acquire LinkedIn for $26.2 billion — the largest acquisition in the tech company's history — to dive into the social-networking realm and provide a launchpad to ...

In a deleted LinkedIn post Matt Turnbull, an Xbox executive, suggested employees use AI to help with the "emotional load" of ...

Perhaps if Microsoft had bought LinkedIn for 1/20th this price 10 years ago, things would be different. Still Microsoft has wanted the big deal for so long, it probably can't even be sure why it's ...

LinkedIn "data scraping" can flag workers who might quit 06:32. LinkedIn's longtime CEO Jeff Weiner continues to hold that title. Its co-founder, Reid Hoffman, now sits on Microsoft's board.

Finally, Microsoft says that LinkedIn Learning (based on LinkedIn’s acquisition of Lynda.com last year for $1.5 billion), will also be integrated into Office.

Microsoft and LinkedIn have been building largely non-overlapping graphs of various kinds of data pertaining to business professionals. That's the real key to Microsoft's $26.2 billion LinkedIn ...