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Re:Microsoft to acquire LinkedIn for $26B by matsur on Monday June 13, 2016 @10:56AM (#11894341)
Different people. Both of those acquisitions were in the Ballmer era.
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Re:Microsoft to acquire LinkedIn for $26B by dpkrjb on Monday June 13, 2016 @11:28AM (#11894633)
Don't Microsoft own a fund? Wouldn't they realistically send the same team to value Linkdin and Nokia?
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Re:Microsoft to acquire LinkedIn for $26B by blackflame7000 on Monday June 13, 2016 @03:20PM (#11896585)
Would you send the same people after the job they did last time?
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Re:Microsoft to acquire LinkedIn for $26B by inopinatus on Monday June 13, 2016 @05:36PM (#11897896)
This criticism is only valid if you can show that the due diligence team that worked Nokia also a) misreported the red flags / the enterprise value of the acquisition, and b) were responsible for mismanaging the post-merger integration.

A good deal of M&A goes ahead despite the warnings from the DD team. Sometimes it's a matter of CEO ego, sometimes a strategic long shot overruling the red flags.

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