http://www.thestandard.com/predictions/suggestions/microsoft-announces-investment-linkedin Comments for "Microsoft announces an investment in LinkedIn" en http://www.thestandard.com/predictions/suggestions/microsoft-announces-investment-linkedin <p><!--paging_filter-->After failing to strike a deal with Yahoo! and with Facebook favouring an IPO, Microsoft is on the hunt to both buy its way into the social networking movement and help Steve Ballmer save face.</p> <p>Coincidentally, it is rumoured that LinkedIn is looking to raise a $1Bn round of funding to help it through the "nuclear winter" of a recession, funding slow-down and worse.</p> <p>This prediction is that an announcement if made that the two get together to meet their respective objectives before June 30, 2008. To count, Microsoft must invest more than the $240m they currently have invested in Facebook.</p> http://www.thestandard.com/predictions/suggestions/microsoft-announces-investment-linkedin#comments LinkedIn Microsoft Social Networking Software &amp; Web Wed, 14 May 2008 11:18:18 -0700 Ian Hendry 106450 at http://www.thestandard.com