Microsoft acquires LinkedIn: Read CEO Jeff Weiner’s note to employees

Long story short, Satya had me at “independence,” wrote LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner on the Microsoft buyout. (Source: AP)
LinkedIn, the world’s largest professional social network, will now be a part of Microsoft, after the latter announced an acquisition. Microsoft-LinkedIn’s deal is close to $26 billion in an all cash transaction making it one of the biggest deals in the history of the technology world, valued slightly higher than Facebook’s acquisition of WhatsApp.