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Some good news for a quiet year of deal-making in Silicon Valley: Microsoft will purchase LinkedIn in an all-cash $26.2 billion sale, the companies announced Monday. Microsoft C.E.O. Read more: http://bit.ly/1rlW0LI

Shares of LinkedIn (LNKD) are up $61.92, or 47%, at $193, after Microsoft (MSFT) this morning said it would buy the company for $196 per share in cash, or $26.2 billion, including the cash on the books of LinkedIn, a… Continue Reading →

LinkedIn just gave Twitter investors something they haven’t felt in a long time: Hope. News that LinkedIn sold to Microsoft on Monday for more than $26 billion has pushed Twitter stock up more than 8 percent in early-morning trading. Read… Continue Reading →