Microsoft to buy LinkedIn EU concerns, antitrust sword and sheath-LinkedIn, led the British, the Microsoft-IT information
On June 18, according to foreign reports, EU Antitrust Commissioner magelite·weisitage (Margrethe Vestager) said Friday that the investigation of any of Microsoft's acquisition of professional social networking site LinkedIn, are likely to focus on whether the deal would let Microsoft use LinkedIn's extensive user data.
Weisitage said the EU competition Commission will check "Microsoft data obtained through trading with persistence might pose an obstacle to others; or they can be copied, thus giving others the opportunity to enter the market. "" In the past we have been engaged in this type of analysis, which is the focus of our attention, "she said.
The end of 2014 after EU Antitrust Commissioner, weisitage has expressed willingness to probe merger how to spend a huge amount of user data problems. European Commission when evaluating the Facebook deal to buy Instant Messaging use WhatsApp, data are also key factors considered by the Agency. But still weisitage was in charge of evaluating the deal's predecessor, and ultimately make the deal will not bring the data used concern conclusion.
Weisitage, warned earlier this year, although regulators have not found data race problems, "but that does not mean that we will never find the existence of such problems. ”
Investment firm Monness Crespi Hardt & Co. analyst zhanmusi·kamake (James Cakmak) said that from the point of view of data, deal to buy WhatsApp than Microsoft to buy LinkedIn "more strict investigation. "The analyst said," LinkedIn has about 100 million users in Europe, and in Europe has about 350 million Facebook users. WhatsApp growth trajectory and LinkedIn was vastly different. ”
Microsoft announced Monday that it would take a $ 26.2 billion takeover of global professional networking site LinkedIn, this is also one of the tech industry's biggest merger deals. With this transaction, Microsoft Windows and Office developers trying to become the core of users ' work life. Missing to a large extent by Google and Facebook-led consumer after the Internet boom, Microsoft hopes to use the deal to buy LinkedIn took the lead in the field of professional social networks.
In announcing the deal at the same time, Microsoft also sketched a picture of vision, users of LinkedIn resume became the core of their work life, also related to Windows, Outlook, Skype, Office, Excel and PowerPoint and other Microsoft software and tools close together.
Microsoft also said the deal to buy LinkedIn needs to access to the European Union, the United States, and Canada and Brazil, regulatory approval, but the company, the deal can be completed before the end of the year with confidence. Up to now, Microsoft communications sector the report declined to comment.
Salesforce.com
LinkedIn will be able to support Microsoft Dynamics data analysis tools. Dynamics competitors include Salesforce.com to help enterprise customer relationship. Sources said, in the course of Microsoft's acquisition of LinkedIn, Salesforce.com is the software giant's arch-rival. It is reported that Salesforce consultant hired Goldman Sachs as the company's negotiations. But Microsoft won out, and on Monday announced the acquisition of LinkedIn.
Sources said, Microsoft expressed interest about LinkedIn for several years, but the takeover talks were not launched the company. Instead, LinkedIn Executive Chairman Reid Hoffman of the Board (Reid Hoffman) and Chief Executive Officer of jiefu·weina (Jeff Weiner) initiative to found Microsoft CEO satiya·Nadela (Satya Nadella), it would make the company plans to sell and prompted Microsoft to hire Investment Bank. In addition, they have contacts with other potential buyers.
There is competition between Salesforce and Microsoft, which provides cloud computing software and services to enterprises. If LinkedIn,Salesforce can use LinkedIn data to improve software, assist in the sale agreement.
Merger waves
Many industry analysts think Microsoft to buy LinkedIn just inspire large mergers of commercial software and Internet companies. United States well-known venture capitalist Marc Andreessen (Marc Andreessen) on Tuesday said that Microsoft buys LinkedIn shows that technology industry acquisitions and mergers are coming.
Intelligence analysts, Bloomberg mandipu·Xinha (Mandeep Singh), NetSuite and Ultimate Software companies, will likely become a SAP, IBM and Oracle hopes to strengthen the technology giant's acquisition of the assets of cloud computing. Analysts at Goldman Sachs noted in investor reports, over the next 12 months, Twitter has at least 15% the opportunity to seek "strategic" mergers and acquisitions.
In recent years, more than $ 8 billion in Internet or software mergers and acquisitions occur every year. Facebook announced in 2014 for $ 19 billion takeover WhatsApp. Last year, Dell agreed to pay $ 67 billion acquisition of EMC. On Sunday, Symantec has just announced a total cost of about 4.65 billion dollars acquisition of Blue Coat Systems. Analyst at JMP Securities in San Francisco, Pate·woerlawensi (Pat Walravens) said that in recent months a series of merger and acquisition transactions in enterprise software, will push other firms seeking deals and acquisitions of assets to keep pace with competitors.
微软收购LinkedIn引欧盟关注，反垄断之剑又将出鞘 - LinkedIn,领英,
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6月18日消息，据外电报道，欧盟反垄断专员玛格丽特·维斯塔格（Margrethe Vestager）周五表示，任何对微软收购职业社交网站LinkedIn的调查，都可能会集中在此交易是否可能让微软利用LinkedIn庞大的用户数据上。
维斯塔格称，欧盟反垄断机构欧盟委员会将检查“微软通过交易获得的数据是否具有持久性，可能会给他人构成障碍；或者是它们能够被复制，从而让他人有机会进入市场。”“过去我们一直在从事此类分析，这是我们当前关注的重点，”她说。
2014年年底出任欧盟反垄断专员之后，维斯塔格已表达出愿意深入探究并购企业如何支配庞大的用户数据的问题。在欧盟委员会评估Facebook收购即时通讯应用WhatsApp的交易时，数据也是该机构考虑的重点因素。只不过当时负责评估该交易的还是维斯塔格的前任，并最终做出此交易不会带来数据使用顾虑的结论。
维斯塔格在今年年初曾警告称，尽管监管者尚未发现数据竞争问题，“但这并不意味着我们永远不会发现此类问题的存在。”
投资公司Monness Crespi Hardt & Co.的分析师詹姆斯·卡马克（James Cakmak）表示，从数据的出发点来看，收购WhatsApp的交易要比微软收购LinkedIn“获得更严格的详查。”该分析师说，“LinkedIn在欧洲约有1亿用户，而Facebook在欧洲拥有约3.5亿用户。WhatsApp的成长轨迹与LinkedIn有着极大的不同。”
微软周一宣布将以262亿美元收购全球职业社交网站LinkedIn，此交易也是科技产业最大规模的并购交易之一。借助着这一交易，Windows和Office开发商微软试图让自己成为用户工作生活的核心。在很大程度上错过了被谷歌和Facebook主导的消费者网络热潮之后，微软希望借助收购LinkedIn的交易在职业社交网络领域取得领先。
在宣布这一交易的同时，微软还勾勒出了一幅愿景，让用户在LinkedIn的个人简历成为他们工作生活的核心，并与Windows、Outlook、Skype、Office、Excel和PowerPoint等微软软件和工具紧密连接在一起。
微软当时还表示，收购LinkedIn的交易需要获得欧盟、美国、加拿大和巴西等国监管部门的批准，不过该公司对此交易能够在今年年底之前完成充满信心。截止目前，微软公关部门对此报道未予置评。
Salesforce.com
LinkedIn的分析将能够支持微软的Dynamics数据工具。Dynamics的竞争对手包括了帮助企业管理客户关系的Salesforce.com。消息人士透露，在微软对LinkedIn的收购过程中，Salesforce.com是这家软件巨头的主要竞争对手。据悉，Salesforce聘请高盛担任该公司的谈判顾问。但微软最终胜出，并于周一宣布收购LinkedIn。
消息人士称，虽然微软几年前就对LinkedIn表达了收购兴趣，但此次收购谈判并非该公司发起。相反，LinkedIn董事会执行主席雷德·霍夫曼(Reid Hoffman)和首席执行官杰夫·维纳(Jeff Weiner)主动找到了微软首席执行官萨提亚·纳德拉(Satya Nadella)，让其知道该公司计划出售，并促使微软聘请投行。此外，他们还与其他潜在收购者展开了接触。
Salesforce与微软存在竞争关系，前者向企业提供云计算软件和服务。如果收购LinkedIn，Salesforce可以使用LinkedIn的庞大数据来改进软件，帮助客户完成销售协议。
并购浪潮
许多业内分析师认为，微软收购LinkedIn将将激发商业软件和互联网公司的大型并购交易。美国知名风险投资人马克·安德森（Marc Andreessen）本周二就表示，微软收购LinkedIn表明科技产业的收购与并购浪潮即将来临。
彭博情报分析师曼迪普·辛哈（Mandeep Singh）指出，NetSuite和Ultimate Software两家公司，将可能成为SAP、IBM和甲骨文等希望增强云计算资产的科技巨头的收购对象。高盛分析师此前在投资者报告中指出，在未来12个月内，Twitter有至少15%的机会寻求“战略”并购交易。
近年来，规模超过80亿美元的互联网或软件并购交易每年都会出现一宗。Facebook在2014年宣布以190亿美元的价格收购WhatsApp。去年，戴尔同意斥资670亿美元收购EMC。上周日，赛门铁克刚宣布以约46.5亿美元的总价收购Blue Coat Systems。JMP证券驻旧金山分析师帕特·沃尔拉文斯（Pat Walravens）认为，近几个月在企业软件领域出现的一系列并购交易，将推动其他企业寻求通过交易和收购资产来与竞争对手保持同步。