{"id":6703,"date":"2016-06-13T16:30:15","date_gmt":"2016-06-13T15:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/?p=6703"},"modified":"2016-06-13T16:30:15","modified_gmt":"2016-06-13T15:30:15","slug":"microsoft-agrees-to-buy-linkedin-for-26-2bn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/microsoft-agrees-to-buy-linkedin-for-26-2bn\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft agrees to buy LinkedIn for $26.2bn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-6704\" src=\"http:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Microsoft.jpg\" alt=\"Microsoft\" width=\"275\" height=\"183\" \/>Microsoft Corp. agreed to buy LinkedIn Corp. for $26.2 billion in cash, the companies said in a statement on Monday.<br \/>\nThe offer of $196 per share represents a premium of 49.5 percent to LinkedIn\u2019s Friday closing price.<br \/>\n\u201cToday is a re-founding moment for LinkedIn,\u201d Reid Hoffman, chairman of LinkedIn\u2019s board, said in a statement.<br \/>\nJeff Weiner will remain CEO of LinkedIn, reporting to Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella.<br \/>\nThe deal is expected to close in 2016.<\/p>\n<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\r\n<script>(function(d, s, id) {\r\n  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\r\n  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\r\n  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\r\n  js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_GB\/all.js#xfbml=1\";\r\n  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\r\n}(document, \"script\", \"facebook-jssdk\"));<\/script>\r\n <fb:comments href=\"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/microsoft-agrees-to-buy-linkedin-for-26-2bn\/\" font=\"arial\" num_posts=\"\" width=\"\" height=\"\" colorscheme=\"light\"  style=\"background:#FFFFFF;padding-top:0px;\r\npadding-right:0px;\r\npadding-bottom:0px;\r\npadding-left:0px;\r\nmargin-top:0px;\r\nmargin-right:0px;\r\nmargin-bottom:0px;\r\nmargin-left:0px;\r\n\"><\/fb:comments>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft Corp. agreed to buy LinkedIn Corp. for $26.2 billion in cash, the companies said in a statement on Monday. The offer of $196 per share represents a premium of 49.5 percent to LinkedIn\u2019s Friday closing price. \u201cToday is a re-founding moment for LinkedIn,\u201d Reid Hoffman, chairman of LinkedIn\u2019s board, said in a statement. Jeff &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6704,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8,25],"tags":[],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6703"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6703"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6705,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6703\/revisions\/6705"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}