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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella Microsoft just surprised everyone with its plans to acquire LinkedIn for $26.2 billion in cash. While many financial analysts will be inspecting the details more closely, a lot of onlookers simply want to know... why? Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has sent an internal memo to staff about the LinkedIn acquisition, and it attempts to answer why the company is interested in the social networking giant. There are many businesses in Africa and around the world that are likely to merge or even completely buy off another business. The Microsoft’s Nadella hints that LinkedIn will help play into its Office software in the future. One feature will be LinkedIn's newsfeed "that serves up articles based on the project you are working on and Office suggesting an expert to connect with via LinkedIn to help with a task you're trying to complete." Nadella sees a future where LinkedIn can be more intelligent and feed into Office 365. "New opportun...

LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner   Its with mixed feelings that I write this piece. First and foremost I am very much impressed by the progress that the social media platforms have registered since 2000. To make a little more sense is the higher price that these platforms are given, it clearly indicates that the future of businesses has to blend with these social web applications. When the news broke that Microsoft was buying LinkedIn at $26.2B , it fully confirmed my doubts that indeed social media is not a passing fad.   First of all congratulations to the entire LinkedIn team headed by CEO Jeff Weiner  that has built a platform from scratch to now one of the biggest acquisitions that Microsoft has acquired in years. You all need to agree that LinkedIn has invested a lot of time and money in making the platform survive up to this day though it was very clear that their profitable years in business were numbered due to numerous challenges tha...