Microsoft to buy LinkedIn for $26.2bn

Computer software giant, Microsoft Corporation, said it would acquire business-oriented social networking service, LinkedIn Corporation, for 26.2 billion dollars. It said that the move was to seek new growth opportunities for its business productivity tools.

Microsoft, once the world’s No. 1 software giant for personal computer (PC), is a multinational technology company, with headquarters in Richmond, Washington. Under a definitive agreement, Microsoft will buy LinkedIn, based in Mountain View, California, for 196 dollars per share in cash and the transaction is expected to close this year.

In Microsoft Chief Executive Officer, Satya Nadella’s words, “the deal is to bring together the world’s leading professional cloud with the world’s leading professional network.”

The deal is the biggest since he assumed the position in early 2014. Microsoft, which has moved its Office application suite from a set of personal computer productivity tools to a cloud service known as Office 365 and now has 1.2 billion users, finds a connection with LinkedIn.

It runs an online network connecting more than 400 million professionals worldwide.

“We are in pursuit of a common mission centred on empowering people and organisations,” Nadella explained in an email to employees.

“Along with the new growth in our Office 365 commercial and Dynamics businesses, this deal is key to our bold ambition to reinvent productivity and business processes.

“Microsoft Dynamics offers businesses an integrated productivity solution,” Nadella said.

Nadella said that when people found jobs, “build skills, sell, market and get work done, they need a connected professional world which brings together a professional’s information in LinkedIn’s public network’’.

On LinkedIn’s growth and strength, Microsoft listed a number of parameters registered in the past year, including 19 per cent growth year-over-year to more than 433 million members worldwide.

It would also have nine per cent growth to more than 105 million unique visiting members per month, 49 per cent growth to 60 per cent mobile usage and 34 per cent growth to more than 45 billion quarterly member-page views.

Also included in the parameter is 101 per cent growth to more than seven million active job listings.

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Microsoft Band lands in the UK on April 15

Today Microsoft has finally unveiled when its first wearable is due to head to international markets. The Microsoft Band has been available in the US for a few months now, but so far it hasn’t made it to any other places. That will all change on April 15, however, because that’s when the Microsoft Band will be released in the UK. Over there, the fitness accessory will be priced at £169.99.

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Microsoft Band lands in the UK on April 15

Today Microsoft has finally unveiled when its first wearable is due to head to international markets. The Microsoft Band has been available in the US for a few months now, but so far it hasn’t made it to any other places. That will all change on April 15, however, because that’s when the Microsoft Band will be released in the UK. Over there, the fitness accessory will be priced at £169.99.

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Microsoft Certifies 9-Year Old Nigerian Boy As Microsoft Office Professional

Jomiloju Tunde-Oladipo

Jomiloju Tunde-Oladipo, a 9-year old student of Role Model School Oregun, Ikeja, has become the country’s youngest ever Microsoft Office professional after he was officially certified by the software company.
He came tops among 21 pupils who sat for the professional examination in Lagos, and is now a Microsoft office specialist in office word 2010. Jomiloju scored 769 out of 1,000 in the examination held in August.

In his examination score report, the slim-built boy performed well in Sharing and Maintaining Documents, Formatting Content, Applying Page Layout, and Reusable Content, among other subjects.

By the feat, Jomiloju has joined the league of young Microsoft certified professionals, including Nigeria’s 10-year-old Anjolaoluwa Seyi-Ojo; an eight-year-old Indian, Lavishnashree, and two Pakistanis, named Arfa and Thobani.

Microsoft Certified Professional is a certification program provided by Microsoft Corporation. The certification is tailored towards building skills on Microsoft business solutions, focusing on client-end operating systems such as windows XP, Vista, Windows7 among others.

Jomiloju, whose certificate was signed by the Chief Executive Officer, Microsoft Corporation, Steven Ballmer, says he did not achieve this feat easily, but through persistence and hard work.

He says, “It was not all that easy, because I had attempted the examination last year, I did not make it then. But I remained focused and I put in a lot of hard work. “At home and in the school, I am always on the computer. After school hours, if am not doing anything, I will go to my Information Communication Technology teacher, to learn more.”

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Microsoft Certifies 9-Year Old Nigerian Boy As Microsoft Office Professional

Jomiloju Tunde-Oladipo

Jomiloju Tunde-Oladipo, a 9-year old student of Role Model School Oregun, Ikeja, has become the country’s youngest ever Microsoft Office professional after he was officially certified by the software company.
He came tops among 21 pupils who sat for the professional examination in Lagos, and is now a Microsoft office specialist in office word 2010. Jomiloju scored 769 out of 1,000 in the examination held in August.

In his examination score report, the slim-built boy performed well in Sharing and Maintaining Documents, Formatting Content, Applying Page Layout, and Reusable Content, among other subjects.

By the feat, Jomiloju has joined the league of young

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