{"id":102384,"date":"2016-06-13T14:22:27","date_gmt":"2016-06-13T19:22:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=102384"},"modified":"2016-06-13T14:22:53","modified_gmt":"2016-06-13T19:22:53","slug":"microsoft-to-buy-linkedin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=102384","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft to buy LinkedIn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-58902\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/microsoftlogo.jpg\" alt=\"microsoftlogo\" width=\"101\" height=\"91\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-102385\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/LinkedInlogo.png\" alt=\"LinkedInlogo\" width=\"115\" height=\"31\" \/>NEW YORK (AP) &#8211; Microsoft says it is buying professional networking service site LinkedIn for about $26.2 billion.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 LinkedIn, based in Mountain View, California, has more than 430 million members. Users can network with professionals, upload their resumes and search for jobs on the site.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Microsoft Corp. says it is paying $196 for each share of LinkedIn Corp., a 50 percent premium of the stock&#8217;s closing price of $131.08 on Friday.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 LinkedIn shares soared 49 percent before the stock market opened Monday.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0NEW YORK (AP) &#8211; Microsoft says it is buying professional networking service site LinkedIn for about $26.2 billion. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 LinkedIn, based in Mountain View, California, has more than 430 million members. Users can network with professionals, upload their resumes and search for jobs on the site. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Microsoft [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=102384"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102384\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":102386,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102384\/revisions\/102386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=102384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=102384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=102384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}