Why The LinkedIn Acquisition is So Important to SaaS
So, Microsoft bought LinkedIn for $25.6 billion dollars. That headline shocked all of us the other day. But if you step back, it’s not that impressive, the raw number itself. After all, as a public company, LinkedIn was worth $32 billion just a few months earlier, and had been on one heck of a run […]
Three Questions To Ponder on Microsoft and LinkedIn
Hello, Your friendly neighboring analyst (who apparently never writes anything anymore). I had to dust off the cobwebs for this one… I had such a busy day with calls and messages and emails and such – I figured it was a good time to break the streak and write something. First off, won’t comment on […]
Make Microsoft Relevant Again: LinkedIn Acquisition Explained
Microsoft has always been a huge, profitable company but it had become less and less relevant over the last 15 years. Satya has been on a quest to make Microsoft relevant again with a string of acquisitions in mobile and cloud, and this acquisition doubles down on that strategy. Two Kinds of M&A There are […]
Social’s swan song
Microsoft’s acquisition of LinkedIn for more than $26 billion raised a lot of eyebrows for good reason. True, the acquired company is valuable and generating revenue but like most of the social networking space, it is far from healthy and one wonders if Microsoft could have gotten a better deal. According to a colleague at […]
End of an era? LinkedIn goes to Microsoft
Microsoft announced the intent to buy LinkedIn for $196 per share today or more than $26 billion. It’s a huge deal and a great payday for the social networking company specializing in making it easier for business people to connect. But why do this deal and why now? This calls for a lot of speculation […]
Thoughts on Jeff Weiner’s “Pay No Attention to the Stock” Message
From everything I’ve heard for a long time, Jeff Weiner is a wonderful guy and great CEO. In addition, LinkedIn is certainly a great company, so please don’t view this post as dissing either Jeff or the company. I will say, however, that I found media coverage of Jeff’s now famous all-hands speech after the […]
Customer Service Research – One More Time!
Yes, its that time of the year. The (now) fourth version of this wonderful research on Customer Service Usage and Adoption report is coming back! I know, I know. Hard to contain your excitement… me too. Here’s the scoop. I have been running this report for the past three years under the sponsorship of KANA […]
News Analysis: Inside The Rationale Behind @LinkedIn Turning Off Its CSV Connections Download Tool
@LinkedIn Fighting Off Scrapers Inadvertently Angers Users Over the weekend, Michael Korcuska, VP of Product Management at LinkedIn, responded to customer complaints with a series of blog posts explaining their rationale (see Figure 1 and 2). Figure 1. Turning Our CSV Connections Download Tool Back On Figure 2. Access to Your Account Data The […]
News Analysis: How @LinkedIn Is Creating A Personal Data Hostage Crisis For Its Users
Curtailment Of @LinkedIn Downloadable Contacts Breaks Sacred Rules Of Digital Business On July 23, 2015 11:46 AM, Emil Protalinski at Venture Beat broke the story that many users of LinkedIn had noted on social media outlets. The easy to use, immediate download of one’s contacts in a number of flexible formats had been removed […]
Jeff Weiners dystopian comments
By Vinnie Mirchandani on June 16, 2016
On Monday as I was going through the first edit of my book on automation, I heard of the whopper Microsoft bid for LinkedIn. I then read CEO Jeff Weiner’sletter to employees announcing it. Josh Bernoff calls the letter creepy. My reaction was more specific to the para below. I asked why is a CEO […]
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