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This makes a ton of sense for everyone. LinkedIn is too small to be a dominant platform like Google or Facebook. If someone were to buy it, it would be someone
by mathattack 10y ago
This makes a ton of sense for everyone. LinkedIn is too small to be a dominant platform like Google or Facebook. If someone were to buy it, it would be someone with a strong enterprise presence, with an incomplete social footprint. It would also need to be a company with a high enough market cap to afford the purchase, and PE ratio for it to appear dilutive.
Who fits the profile?
- IBM - They are in share buyback mode, not major purchases
- Oracle - Social may not matter to them
- SAP - Too many issues from prior acquisitions
- HP - Splitting, but building
Microsoft is the ideal buyer.
The key is integration. Microsoft doesn't have a great history for integration, but that was also under the prior regime.