Another dumb piece of business by MS. Overpaying for a company that has no value proposition.
Facebook and Google could both do what LinkedIn does easily but opt not to because there is no monetization aspect of what LinkedIn actually does.
Both FB and Google individually have more customer data than LinkedIn ever did or would.
I encourage MS to continue making stupid business decisions like making products like phones, tabs and zunes. And now trying to play with the big boys in big data.
If MS were smart they would stick to what their good at which is enterprise services and software which also are being taken over by the likes of Google and Amazon (AWS).
Keep doing what you're doing MS