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The evening of June 13, Microsoft said on its official blog "Microsoft and LinkedIn company announced on Monday that they had signed a definitive agreement, Microsoft will acquire to 196 dollars per share all-cash acquisition of LinkedIn, transaction value of $ 26.2 billion. The transaction is expected to be completed this year. ”

After the news got out, LinkedIn shares. As of press time, LinkedIn 192.84 Yuan, up 47.12% from Microsoft at $ 49.87, down 3.15%.

LinkedIn in early morning trading shares

Remember when Microsoft invested $ 7.2 billion acquisition of Nokia's handset business events yet? But in a time of declining performance, stocks fell after personnel changes, but admits the acquisition of Nokia is a historical mistake. Microsoft has been keen to acquire other companies, let us take a look at what other companies were Microsoft's clutches.

1. Nokia

Price: US $ 7.17 billion

Acquisition date: September 2, 2013

Nokia after the acquisition, Microsoft did a lot of rebranding work including Lumia Lumia brands changed its name to Microsoft. But that Nokia was not back from the dangerous brink.

Eating the Nokia mobile phones businesses of Microsoft, is not good. Beginning of July 2015, Microsoft's new fiscal year begins, last fiscal year third quarter writedowns on Microsoft as much as $ 7.6 billion costs associated with mobile devices unit Microsoft buy Nokia mobile phones businesses--almost equal to the $ 5 billion and $ 2.2 billion to buy Nokia mobile patent portfolio adds up to the total price. Microsoft basically dead heart smart phone business, in the new fiscal year, the first batch of 7800 jobs, mainly knives from the mobile sector.

2. Yammer

Purchase price: $ 1.2 billion

Acquisition date: July 20, 2012

Launched in 2008, Yammer is a "corporate social network" services in 2012 and is acquired by Microsoft. Since then, Microsoft has been steadily integrating this service. In 2015, Yammer has been more tightly together with Office 365, were integrated to Office Online.

3. Skype

Purchase price: $ 8.5 billion in cash

Acquisition date: May 10, 2011

In the case of we are not optimistic about the deal, Microsoft in 2011 with a price of $ 8.5 billion acquisition of Skype. Microsoft has increased input into the Skype brand, will consolidate its chat service to "Skype for Business" sector. But after the acquisition, some media said after Microsoft acquired Skype user experience is not backsliding, and synchronization problems were frequently ridicule.

At the end of 2015, Microsoft confirmed that the latest version of Skype communications software vulnerabilities. In fact, the problems with Skype is not the first time, in September 2015 had received on the Skype services.

被微软收购后下场都很惨：领英能否逃脱魔咒 - 微软,领英网,LinkedIn - IT资讯

6月13日晚间，微软在官方博客上表示“微软和LinkedIn公司周一宣布他们已经签订了最终协议，微软将收购以每股196美元全现金收购LinkedIn，交易价值达到262亿美元。该交易预计将在本年度完成。”

消息一出后，LinkedIn股价大涨。截止发稿，LinkedIn报192.84元，上涨47.12%；微软报49.87美元，下跌3.15%。

linkedIn开盘后股价大涨

还记得当年微软斥72亿美元收购诺基亚手机业务的事件了吗？却在一次次业绩下滑，股票下跌，人事调整之后，无奈的承认收购诺基亚是历史的败笔。微软一直热衷于收购其他公司，让我们一起看看还有哪些公司遭到微软的魔爪。

1.诺基亚

收购价格：71.7亿美元

收购日期：2013年9月2日

在诺基亚被收购之后，微软做了很多品牌重塑的工作，包括将Lumia品牌更名为微软Lumia。但是，这并没有将诺基亚从危险的边缘拯救回来。

吃下了诺基亚手机业务的微软，过的也并不好。2015年7月初，微软新财年开始，上一财年第四季度财报显示微软减记了高达76亿美元与移动设备部门有关的费用——几乎等于微软收购诺基亚手机业务的50亿美元和收购诺基亚移动专利组合的22亿美元加起来的总价格。微软基本上对智能手机业务死了心，在新财年里首批裁员7800人，主要从移动部门动刀。

2. Yammer

收购价格：12亿美元

收购日期：2012年7月20日

Yammer是一项推出于2008年的“企业社交网络”服务，并于2012年被微软所收购。自那时以来，微软一直在稳步整合这项服务。2015年，Yammer已经与Office 365更紧密地捆绑到一起，被集成到了Office Online。

3. Skype

收购价格：85亿美元现金

收购日期：2011年5月10日

在大家都不看好这项收购的情况下，微软在2011年以85亿美元的价格收购Skype。微软加大了对Skype品牌建设的投入，将其企业聊天服务整合到“Skype for Business”部门。但收购后，有媒体称Skype被微软收购后用户体验不进反退，而且信息同步问题频遭吐槽。

在2015年底，微软证实其最新版本的Skype通信软件出现漏洞。事实上，Skype并不是第一次出现问题，在2015年9月Skype就曾出现过服务问题。