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M icrosoft just posted the fourth and final quarter of its 2025 fiscal financial results. The software maker made $76.4 ...

A Microsoft ad on LinkedIn is getting roasted for using a terrible AI-generated graphic to promote a graphic designer role at ...

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 ...

Microsoft, for example, is buying LinkedIn for its brand, website platform and software—arguably far more ethereal assets. Not surprisingly, what the $25 billion Microsoft is paying dwarfs ...

The acquisition of LinkedIn would be Microsoft's largest ever; the deal values LinkedIn at $196 per share, representing a 49.5% premium over Friday's closing price.

Microsoft is likely to start small. The most basic benefit could be a unified, self-updating address book; you can get someone’s contact details from LinkedIn today by connecting the service to ...

Microsoft Corp will buy LinkedIn Corp for $26.2 billion in its biggest-ever deal, a bold stroke by Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella in his efforts to make the venerable software company a major force ...

Microsoft hasn't been afraid to spend big to acquire strategic assets, but LinkedIn is by far its biggest acquisition. Its next largest is Skype, which it purchased for $8.5 billion in 2011.