Engrossed in a writeup on "maamooli banker" and later towards the evening about Vijay Mallya's case in DRT, pat came a news falling on my ears ...
Microsoft buys LinkedIn for $26.2 billion ... the headline rocked across media ...
As usual all business media got into act, first hailing the acquisition and a couple of days later, dishing out some harsh realities of the deal ...
To me, Microsoft is like a desperate middle age woman trying all cosmetic products or services expensive to regain her beauty and admirers ... haha ...
Will this damsel succeed in regaining her beauty and admirers?
Surely very few can do it, one among them being The Eternal Beauty - Hema Malini.
And in tech annals, Bill Gates come to my mind, who was the smartest among all. He knew the art of making right moves at highs ... These endeavours cemented his reputation forever as super successful czar ... how true!!!
Can Satya Nadella ever be a Bill Gates? ... This may sound small ... let's make it even bigger a query ...
Can Microsoft transform businesses and workers’ productivity worldwide by Linking Up the LinkedIn? It seems fanciful ...
They LinkedUp $26.2 billion to buy LinkedIn ... Could have waited a year or so, the cost could have been considerably less, for shedding $11 billion from its market value when their share price shrank by more than 40 per cent in a day, was an indication clear, the ship was sinking deep since February ...
Despite these worries, Microsoft paid a generous 50 per cent premium for buying a headache - that is LinkedIn ...
How Microsoft adds users to LinkedIn’s platform more quickly and how it can make more money from their data, remains to be seen ... a bad headache at that ...
And why Nadella intends to keep LinkedIn as an independent company .... Perhaps his company has seen the pitfalls of integrating large acquisitions at first hand .... And Microsoft has a history, a history replete with big deal failures - they squandered over $6.3 billion on aQuantive and $7.6 billion on Nokia’s handset business ...
These misfortunes happened before Nadella took over, but in coming days these might take him over ... let's see ...
Now let's turn pages of behavioural headache that Microsoft has to deal with ...
Keeping the employees of large firms LinkedIn will be a big challenge because they block or restrict access to it as it makes money from recruiters out to poach their staff ...
Users may also grow uncomfortable if Microsoft deploys their data elsewhere and could stop using the service. Mr Nadella has acknowledged they will have to treat what they know about users “tastefully”.
But sometimes there are Microsoft successes like X-Box, but they are few and far in-between ... Their strategy is like throwing dung at the wall - something sticks, but mostly slithers down ... haha ...
This new deal means Microsoft can embed LinkedIn with Skype, its email system and other Microsoft enterprise products so that, in the words of one Silicon Valley expert, it will be able ‘to recreate the connective tissue for enterprises. ...
For more positives click here - http://www.newyorker.com/business/currency/why-microsoft-wanted-linkedin
All said and done, I only hope Nadella continues to take good care of his company's bread and butter: Windows. They may need it to pay for their big mistakes ... haha ...
Note: Mamooli Banker is the comment made by Arun Shourie, not me ... Hope I am forgiven by someone extraordinarly special .....
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