Stop listening to your bankers and go public, says top late-stage team

Technology Crossover Ventures  has become a major investing powerhouse over its 22-year-old history by funding relatively undiscovered but...

LinkedIn open sources nifty Android app testing tool

LinkedIn  announced today that it is open sourcing a tool called  Test Butler,  which was developed in-house to overcome limitations on An...

Waiting for the right professional network

I recently asked an investor for some SEO advice (because he had run B2C companies). He came on a call to give his opinions on what we had...

Five companies considered buying LinkedIn

A new  SEC filing  posted Friday gives more clarity about what led up to  Microsoft acquiring  LinkedIn for over $26 billion.  And they pr...

Microsoft makes some moves to lift Dynamics CRM marketshare

Microsoft has been searching for ways to strengthen its flagging Dynamics customer relationship management (CRM) tool, and it made a coupl...

How Microsoft will put LinkedIn to work in Office

There are a number of ways that Microsoft plans to take advantage of its $26.2 billion LinkedIn acquisition, ranging from  data-gathering ...

Microsoft to buy LinkedIn for $26.2B in cash, makes big move into enterprise social media

Huge news today in the world of M&A in enterprise and social networking services:  Microsoft  has announced that it is  acquiring Link...