Yahoo was the Google of my generation, it was the place to go for News, Email, Games, Chat. It was my homepage and the place I went to search the internet. At one point Yahoo was valued at $125 billion. Yesterday, Verizon the US mobile network bought it for just $4.8 billion! That’s still quite…
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Microsoft aquires LinkedIn for $26.2 billion
Microsoft has decided to aquire LinkedIn for an astronomical $26.2 billion. Microsoft is bound to incorporate LinkedIn functionality into their forthcoming apps, and I’m quite excited to see how these pan out. The deal is expected to complete by the end of the year, with both companies still operating separately. I’m guessing the Nokia merger…