Microsoft buying LinkedIn for $26 billion

[baydude]

Hopefully this will be a better buy than the $7.8b for Nokia..

http://money.cnn.com/2016/06/13/technology/microsoft-linkedin/index.html

 

[Anubis]

TIL linkedin is actually worth something

 

[baydude]

LNKD stock just jumped 46%

 

[rh71]

LNKD stock just jumped 46%

I've always been curious about "insider trading". If you were on the MSFT team working on this deal (or even supporting those who do) before it actually happened, and you told your relative to buy LinkedIn stock, is this jailtime or what?

EDIT>> oh here we go: http://fortune.com/2016/06/13/linkedin-microsoft-insider-trading/?xid=yahoo_fortune ... but you shouldn't be doing this the business day before it actually transpires eh?

 

[Drako]

I don't get why it would be worth that much, but whatever.

 

[vi edit]

I've always been curious about "insider trading". If you were on the MSFT team working on this deal (or even supporting those who do) before it actually happened, and you told your relative to buy LinkedIn stock, is this jailtime or what?

EDIT>> oh here we go: http://fortune.com/2016/06/13/linkedin-microsoft-insider-trading/?xid=yahoo_fortune ... but you shouldn't be doing this the business day before it actually transpires eh?

It's very illegal.

 

[shimpster]

I've always been curious about "insider trading". If you were on the MSFT team working on this deal (or even supporting those who do) before it actually happened, and you told your relative to buy LinkedIn stock, is this jailtime or what?

EDIT>> oh here we go: http://fortune.com/2016/06/13/linkedin-microsoft-insider-trading/?xid=yahoo_fortune ... but you shouldn't be doing this the business day before it actually transpires eh?

its ok to do that, as all the big traderz practice this method.

 

[Homerboy]

I've always been curious about "insider trading". If you were on the MSFT team working on this deal (or even supporting those who do) before it actually happened, and you told your relative to buy LinkedIn stock, is this jailtime or what?

EDIT>> oh here we go: http://fortune.com/2016/06/13/linkedin-microsoft-insider-trading/?xid=yahoo_fortune ... but you shouldn't be doing this the business day before it actually transpires eh?

Well, until last Friday when a whopping 621 contracts were traded.

LOL some people are about to get screwed.

 

[Anubis]

I've always been curious about "insider trading". If you were on the MSFT team working on this deal (or even supporting those who do) before it actually happened, and you told your relative to buy LinkedIn stock, is this jailtime or what?

that's def insider trading and yes it can result in jail time

 

[shimpster]

thanx for the hedz up

 

[darkewaffle]

I guess some people somewhere think LinkedIn is important. I wouldn't think of it as a good investment personally. But it seems like LinkedIn is at least retaining it's independence and staff and simply becoming part of Microsoft's "portfolio" so to speak so it shouldn't be too disruptive.

 

[TheGardener]

I've always been curious about "insider trading". If you were on the MSFT team working on this deal (or even supporting those who do) before it actually happened, and you told your relative to buy LinkedIn stock, is this jailtime or what?

EDIT>> oh here we go: http://fortune.com/2016/06/13/linkedin-microsoft-insider-trading/?xid=yahoo_fortune ... but you shouldn't be doing this the business day before it actually transpires eh?

Could be jail time. A lot depends on what the SEC can prove. A lot depends on how cooperative the accused is. Martha Stewart refused to admit guilt, and did time in Club Fed.

 

[MrDudeMan]

Wow. I buy and sell options literally daily and the whole thing stinks of cheating. Yes, I'm jealous, but I still think it's insider trading.

 

[Jaepheth]

I honestly don't know anyone who uses it or takes it seriously.
People I don't know kept trying to add me as someone who knew them.

I haven't logged in to their system for probably 4-5 years now.

 

[vi edit]

I honestly don't know anyone who uses it or takes it seriously.
People I don't know kept trying to add me as someone who knew them.

I haven't logged in to their system for probably 4-5 years now.

If you are in the right industries it's a good place for consulting leads. I've got a lot of job opportunities solicited through it.

 

[Red Squirrel]

I'm kind of surprised MS did not just buy Facebook instead. WAY more user data that way. MS seems to be heading towards the same business model as Google. Collect as much user info as possible to sell to advertisers.

 

[TheGardener]

I'm kind of surprised MS did not just buy Facebook instead. WAY more user data that way. MS seems to be heading towards the same business model as Google. Collect as much user info as possible to sell to advertisers.

Maybe someday Zuckerberg will buy Microsoft.

 

[vi edit]

I'm kind of surprised MS did not just buy Facebook instead. WAY more user data that way. MS seems to be heading towards the same business model as Google. Collect as much user info as possible to sell to advertisers.

You'd have to add an extra zero to that amount to get near facebook level values. Before this MSFT was sitting on about 100 billion in cash. Not sure what the impulse was to drop 25 bills (get it...Bills) on LinkedIn.

 

[poofyhairguy]

I'm kind of surprised MS did not just buy Facebook instead.

They tried a while back and failed:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/facebook/8193860/Facebook-rejected-Microsoft-offer.html

 

[nakedfrog]

I don't think I've signed into LinkedIn since last time I was looking for a job... years ago.

 

[Imp]

From the sounds of it, LinkedIn was headed the Twitter way -- functional but people realizing it was overvalued.

Then in comes Microsoft...

So, that makes Nokia, Skype, and now LinkedIn. Nokia is dead and barely helped Microsoft grow their phone market share. Skype is up against Apple Facetime and Google Hangout? Did MSFT think they were buying the next Facebook -- 5+ years too late?

 

[KentState]

Still trying to wrap my head around how MS will try to extract value out of Linkedin in a legal and ethical manor. Maybe I answered my own question.

 

[Sonikku]

Wish Microsoft bought Nintendo instead.

 

[Imp]

Might be an auto-play video:
http://www.cnbc.com/2016/06/13/microsoft-linkedin-deal-raises-several-red-flags-commentary.html

Meanwhile, Microsoft's M&A history raises questions, too. It has written down essentially the entire $9.5 billion it paid for Nokia. In 2012, it wrote off nearly all the $6.3 billion shelled out for digital-advertising agency aQuantive.

Microsoft has to stop blowing their money. Give me some...

 

[poofyhairguy]

MS is chasing the market instead of leading. Huge investments into mobile for squat. Now social media. They need to pump money into innovation, make it so I can wear a Hololens the next ten years.