Microsoft to spend up to US $ 26.2 billion to repurchase LinkedIn

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LinkedIn is one of the most prestigious technology companies and the largest Silicon Valley (USA). 13/6 Today, Microsoft shocked when claiming expenses $ 26.2 billion takeover this recruitment network.

13/6 Today, Microsoft announced the acquisition for $ 26.2 billion LinkedIn. LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner maintains his position and will report directly to Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella. The deal is expected to complete this year - some amazing facts

Microsoft to spend up to US $ 26.2 billion to repurchase LinkedIn

LinkedIn becomes platform connecting all people with expertise around the planet, but not everyone knows its origin and journey it has undergone. Along learn some important milestones during the 14 years of establishment and development of LinkedIn:

2002 year

Reid Hoffman founded LinkedIn from the family room. Reid previously served as board member of Google, eBay and PayPal should have a name and is the name given bail when capital calls science facts for kids. This explains in part the excellent integration between the LinkedIn and Google.

Year 2003

LinkedIn was born exactly on the date 05/05/2003, so far was 14 years old. LinkedIn is one of the social networking platform oldest orthodox, than video game reviews YouTube, Facebook or Twitter. The main mission of the site is to connect professionals around the world to bring success and effective for them.

At the end of the first months of operation, a total of 4,500 LinkedIn members. The founders of the network is Reid Hoffman, Allen Blue, Konstantin Guericke, Eric Ly and Jean-Luc Vailant. "The garage" from companies such as EA, Google, Microsoft, PayPal, TiVo and Yahoo.

2004

LinkedIn come a long way to add functionality to download the address book to invite colleagues, introduced the group to build community and even partnered with American Express to promote to customers. The company actually extend the reach and improve the total membership to 1,217,647 at the beginning of the year.

2005

In this year, LinkedIn begin monetizing subscription model and moved to larger offices (4 offices in 3 years). The number of members increased to 4,192,941 at the beginning of the year.

2006

In early 2006, LinkedIn has more than 5 million members and launched a public profile career in the past and the present of each user. This is also the first year the company is profitable. So interesting, LinkedIn also a hint function and "People you unfortunately know", both of which exist to this day.

2007

In 2007, things began to more seriously, Reid Hoffman decided to focus on running the Dan Nye also driven the company to stand out. Meanwhile there are 17,131,764 LinkedIn members.

2008

LinkedIn expand outside of the US borders with its first office in the UK, at the same time open the French version and Spanish for 33,077,647 members.

2009

As the number of users exceeded 55 million mark, a change in senior leadership. Jeff Weiner, who joined the company as President, becoming CEO, his top priority is to clarify the mission and values of LinkedIn for strategic plans.

2010

LinkedIn impressive growth with 85,411,764 members in early 2010. The company opened offices around the world and has more than 1,000 employees.

2011

This is an important year for the network LinkedIn to recruit New York Stock Exchange, even held a meeting with US President Barack Obama. Now, LinkedIn has over 135 million members.

Year 2012

LinkedIn interface is completely changed by Weiner wants to make the website become simpler, stimulate growth, become a daily destination for everyone. Throughout the year, the company launched personal pages and new functions. The number of members increased by more than 50 million, on 186 930 823 in early 2012.

2013

10th birthday, big party LinkedIn organization and has more than 225 million members worldwide. Lowering the age network are allowed to register, targeted at both the school, go to work.

Year 2014

LinkedIn sustainable development with more than 5,400 full-time employees, with offices in 27 cities around the world, marked in more than 200 countries reviews. The fastest growing sectors were students and workers elect because they start to realize the benefits of the platform.

Today, LinkedIn has 315 million members, is home to a collection of the most qualified people. Since its inception, the foundation grew at a steady pace, averaging 2 per second with new accounts and more than 1 million members each week. With Microsoft acquired for $ 26.2 billion, LinkedIn has proved to be valuable and his stature.