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In its largest acquisition to date ($1.5 billion), LinkedIn announces its acquisition of Lynda.com, an eLearning platform allowing users to learn business, technology, software, and creative skills through videos. [44] 2015: May 7: Product: LinkedIn adds an analytics tool to its publishing platform.
Shares of LinkedIn rose as much as 171% on their first day of trade on the New York Stock Exchange and closed at $94.25, more than 109% above IPO price. Shortly after the IPO, the site's underlying infrastructure was revised to allow accelerated revision-release cycles. [ 11 ]
Time Warner: 80.0 103 21st Century Fox abandoned its takeover of Time Warner, due to the unwillingness of the Time Warner Board to engage with the Fox executives. This also caused a sharp dip in Fox's stock price which made a deal unattractive to Fox shareholders. [456] [457] 22 1998 American Home Products: SmithKline Beecham: 77.0 143.9
Bill Gates retires as chief software architect and devotes more of his time to philanthropy. [6] 2008: September 2: Competition: Google launches Google Chrome, a browser that would cut into the web browser operating share of Internet Explorer. [28] 2009: October 22: Products: Microsoft launches Windows 7 to the general public. [29] 2009: May 28 ...
LinkedIn has snapped up recommendation start-up mSpoke, marking the first acquisition in the white-collar social-networking site's seven-year history as it aims for growth. It could also set ...
In 2015, Roslansky was a key part of the $1.5 billion (~$1.89 billion in 2023) acquisition of Lynda.com, the largest acquisition in LinkedIn's history at that time. In response to the COVID-19 pandemic , Microsoft and Linkedin pledged to upskill 25 million workers [ 8 ] and in 2021, has surpassed that number.
FriendFeed, a real-time social media feed aggregator, launches. [citation needed] 2007 Launch Justin.tv, a live-streaming that allowed anyone to broadcast video online, launches. [43] 2008 Acquisition AOL buys Bebo for $850 million. [32] 2009 Acquisition FriendFeed is acquired by Facebook for $15 million in cash, and $32.5 million in stock. [44 ...
It is a subsidiary of LinkedIn. All the courses on LinkedIn fall into four categories: Business, Creative, Technology, and Certifications. It was founded in 1995 by Lynda Weinman as Lynda.com before being acquired by LinkedIn in 2015 and becoming LinkedIn Learning. [2] Microsoft acquired LinkedIn in December 2016. [3]