Takeover: Microsoft

Takeover. What is takeover? In business. Today i will talk about one of the largest mergers of all time. Microsoft. Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational technology company with headquarters in Redmond. Microsoft logo history. -1980 1980-1982 1982-1987 1987-2012 2012-Present. Microsoft subsidiaries. Microsoft largest being the acquisition of LinkedIn for $. LinkedIn. LinkedIn is an American business and employment-oriented online service that operates via websites and mobile apps. LinkedIn is the. Why did Microsoft buy LinkedIn? Microsoft wants to turn LinkedIn profiles into a central identity. LinkedIn provides Microsoft. Summary. LinkedIn wins this. Thank you for your attention.

Today i will talk about one of the largest mergers of all time. Microsoft purchased LinkedIn.

Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational technology company with headquarters in Redmond, Washington. It develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells computer software, consumer electronics, personal computers, and related services. Its best known software products are the Microsoft Windows line of operating systems, the Microsoft Office suite, and the Internet Explorer and Edge web browsers. Microsoft was founded by Bill Gates and Paul Allen on April 4, 1975, to develop and sell BASIC interpreters for the Altair 8800. It rose to dominate the personal computer operating system market with MS-DOS in the mid-1980s, followed by Microsoft Windows. The company's 1986 initial public offering, and subsequent rise in its share price, created three billionaires and an estimated 12,000 millionaires among Microsoft employees.

Microsoft largest being the acquisition of LinkedIn for $26.2 billion in December 2016. Followed by their acquisition of Skype Technologies for $8.5 billion in May 2011. Also microsoft subsidiaries is : Xbox game studios and GitHub.

LinkedIn wins this spot because it receives billions for being a subsidiary of one of Microsoft's largest companies and gets additional customers from Microsoft users themselves. Microsoft also wins in part by creating and expanding its work, innovating, expanding its customer base, and having a number of subsidiaries that bring Microsoft only profit and good and rapid growth.