北京时间12月8日晚间消息，微软宣布，已正式完成收购LinkedIn交易。
微软今年6月宣布，将以262亿美元现金收购LinkedIn。本周二，欧盟有条件批准了这笔交易。
欧盟要求在合并交易完成后的五年时间里，微软要允许其他职业社交网站使用其Office程序，并给予PC厂商不在台式机上预装LinkedIn应用的选择权。
微软将继续保留LinkedIn品牌、文化和独立性，杰夫·韦纳尔（Jeff Weiner）将继续担任LinkedIn CEO，向微软CEO萨蒂亚·纳德拉（Satya Nadell）汇报工作。LinkedIn创始人 霍夫曼完全退出.
领英中国因为是LinkedIn 与其他几家机构的合资公司，应该暂时不会受到太大的影响。
领英中国总裁沈博阳谈到：“就在刚刚，Jeff宣布了微软对领英的收购正式完成。在微软的帮助下，领英会更好的实现我们的使命：连接全球职场人士，让他们事半功倍发挥所长。感谢大家过去三年对领英中国的支持；感谢团队过去三年不懈的努力。我们已经成为了连接中国和美国最好的平台。拥抱变化，纵情向前，迎接Next Play！”
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Jeff Weiner 的邮件
CEO at LinkedIn
As we closed LinkedIn’s acquisition by Microsoft today, I sent the following to our team. Publishing it here on the network for those interested in learning more about where we’ll be focusing our integration efforts. For additional context, here is a link to my original post at the time of the initial announcement.
Team,
Six months ago, we announced our intention to be acquired by Microsoft. At the time, Satya and I shared the background of the deal and our joint vision for changing the way the world works. Today I’m pleased to announce that we’ve just officially closed the acquisition. I’m more confident than ever that our move to join forces with Microsoft will accelerate our mission to connect the world’s professionals to make them more productive and successful, and ultimately help create economic opportunity for every member of the global workforce.
Over the past few months, the LinkedIn and Microsoft leadership teams have been meeting to understand and prioritize the opportunities ahead. We’ve been able to see first-hand the level of innovation being driven at scale — in artificial intelligence, machine learning, the cloud, devices, and more. We’ve also had the chance to build a deeper relationship with Satya and the Microsoft leadership team, and to witness the strategic and cultural shifts they are driving, and the impressive traction they are seeing as a result.
As we move forward, our day-to-day operations will essentially remain unchanged: We’ll continue to have the same mission and vision, the same culture and values, the same brand, and the same leadership team.
Our members still come first. Our commitment to privacy and security will not change. And our partners are still core to our business. We’ll continue to remain focused on growing LinkedIn and creating value for our members and customers. Over the coming months we’ll start sharing more about how we’re integrating products, especially in areas where we can leverage Microsoft’s scale, e.g.,
LinkedIn identity and network in Microsoft Outlook and the Office suite
LinkedIn notifications within the Windows action center
Enabling members drafting résumés in Word to update their profiles, and discover and apply to jobs on LinkedIn
Extending the reach of Sponsored Content across Microsoft properties
Enterprise LinkedIn Lookup powered by Active Directory and Office 365
LinkedIn Learning available across the Office 365 and Windows ecosystem
Developing a business news desk across our content ecosystem and MSN.com
Redefining social selling through the combination of Sales Navigator and Dynamics 365
Getting to this point wouldn’t have been possible without the teams who have been working tirelessly on the close since we announced the deal in June. I’d like to thank them for all they’ve done to set us up for success as we begin our next chapter.
In so many ways we’re just getting started, and I couldn’t be more excited about the future.
Next play.
Jeff
