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I-Bankers Smokin' L's in the Hot-tub

I-Bankers Smokin' L's in the Hot-tub

Episode 66 Published 10 years, 3 months ago

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Samsung Buys Joyent

Joyent notes
Coverage from Venturebeat
"Until today, we lacked one thing. We lacked the scale required to compete effectively in the large, rapidly growing and fiercely competitive cloud computing market. Now, that changes,"

Microsoft acquires LinkedIn

Press Release from Microsoft
M&A Synergies Theoretical WTF'ing:
- Slideshare, extended to all Office formats.
- Login with LinkedIn + AD = SSO won. Also: "Massively scaling the reach and engagement of LinkedIn by using the network to power the social and identity layers of Microsoft's ecosystem of over one billion customers. Think about things like LinkedIn's graph interwoven throughout Outlook, Calendar, Active Directory, Office, Windows, Skype, Dynamics, Cortana, Bing and more."
- 433 million professionals in LinkedIn (from MSFT internal memo).
- ...but it's probably all the same people, tho.
- "Along with the new growth in our Office 365 commercial and Dynamics businesses this deal is key to our bold ambition to reinvent productivity and business processes." (MSFT CEO, from MSFT internal memo)
- Ads and dumb-AI context: "This combination will make it possible for new experiences such as a LinkedIn 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. As these experiences get more intelligent and delightful, the LinkedIn and Office 365 engagement will grow. And in turn, new opportunities will be created for monetization through individual and organization subscriptions and targeted advertising." (MSFT CEO, from

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