Microsoft bought the social network Linkedin by 26.200 million dollars – Vanguardia Liberal

The European Commission approved on Tuesday the purchase, under conditions, of the social network for professionals LinkedIn by the giant of computing, Microsoft, an operation of about 26.200 million dollars announced in June.

“The decision today ensures that europeans will be able to continue by choosing among different professional social networks”, said in a press release the european commissioner for Competition, Margrethe Vestager, for whom these networks allow you to “find new job prospects”.

The executive community links its decision to respect a set of commitments on the part of Microsoft to preserve competition in this sector in Europe.

So, the us giant will allow manufacturers or distributors of laptop computers can decide not to install LinkedIn in the Windows operating system, developed by Microsoft, said the Commission.

The group is committed in addition to allow “social networking competitor LinkedIn to be able to maintain “current levels of interoperability with the range of Microsoft Office products”.

With this guarantee, Microsoft “received all regulatory approvals for completion of the operation, which will conclude “in the coming days”, held in a statement the multinational company.

the promises of The giant of the computer shall be implemented “over a period of five years,” said the Commission, which announced the supervision of its implementation.

LinkedIn, created in 2003, has about 433 million users in the world and imposed itself on the sector of job search in social networks for professionals.

This acquisition, the largest in the group founded by Bill Gates since Satya Nadella assumed the direction of the beginning of 2014, is framed in the context of large acquisitions in the digital world, such as the purchase of messaging service WhatsApp by Facebook that same year.