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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhile we were sleeping -- America took another step to a Techno Gilded Age
Microsoft -- a company that already has way too much market power and too much access to personal information -- is aquiring Linked In, the popular business/social network.
The Internet is rapidly congealing into a handful of massive Corporations that have access to a frightening amount of personal information. And the idea of the Internet as a wide-open market is being turned into a small handful of Empires.
http://siliconangle.com/blog/2016/06/22/microsofts-linkedin-acquisition-a-good-deal-for-partners-but-will-there-be-trust-issues-with-workers/
Following Microsofts acquisition of LinkedIn Corp. for $26.2 billion one of Microsofts partners, harmon.ie, a company that develops mobile collaboration tools for Microsoft services, believes Microsoft and its partners stand to benefit considerably from LinkedIns treasure trove of information. But there are some obstacles Microsoft will have to overcome, harmon.ie asserts, and one of those is possibility of LinkedIn users having trust issues with Microsoft owning more of their personal information.
Microsofts intention is to build a massive professional social network, synergising its own Office Graph information derived from mapping billions of interactions across Microsofts Office suite and LinkedIns graph which, collects information relating to employment such as potential, relevant job opportunities and networking.
Microsofts intention is to build a massive professional social network, synergising its own Office Graph information derived from mapping billions of interactions across Microsofts Office suite and LinkedIns graph which, collects information relating to employment such as potential, relevant job opportunities and networking.
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While we were sleeping -- America took another step to a Techno Gilded Age (Original Post)
Armstead
Jun 2016
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onehandle
(51,122 posts)1. I quit lynda.com when they were acquired by LinkedIn.
LinkedIn has never done shit for me, professionally. And they are way too spammy.
Armstead
(47,803 posts)2. I don't much care for them eitehr
I have to use it in my job for clients, but I never use it myself.
But adding that to the MS Empire is likely to bring the worst of both worlds....and it's givoing them too damn much information about us, as well as reducing competition.
Old Codger
(4,205 posts)3. Thanks
Reminded me I needed to close my account there..no microsoft that way