Microsoft Acquires Linkedin: Becomes major player in Big Data & HR Recruitment

On 14th July 2016 the acquisition of LinkedIn to Microsoft was announced.

This is the biggest Dotcom sale so far, and could have far reaching implications for every online business.

Microsoft has basically paid $26 Billion for the biggest database on professional people in the world, with over 400 million registered users and more than 100 million visitors every month.

It will be interesting to see what they do with it? Maybe it will become the Business professional’s alternative to Facebook?

LinkedIn has recently introduced its own version of “newsfeed” and it’s worldwide of over 400 million professionals is a goldmine waiting to be tapped.

If you’d like to know more; what Microsoft has said, and what the HR Recruitment industry is speculating, you can read a detailed article here

This is one of many such billion $ acquisitions that the big 4 have made to compete with each other and consolidate their position in the ongoing game.

Keep watching this is by no means the end