How can Microsoft justify the hefty $26.2bn price tag?
1. No one uses LinkedIn as a professional network anyway
Around 430 million people are signed up to LinkedIn, and Microsoft will be able to access probably the largest global database of professionals. But only a quarter of subscribers use it on a monthly basis, and a huge swathe of them don't even update their details when they switch jobs.
People who do use it regularly usually spam the feed with Facebook-like posts or marketing spiel, add everyone from their Outlook account and essentially annoy the hell out of everyone else. Sometimes it's not just about the vast amount of data you get, but the quality of the data.
LinkedIn's slogan is ‘relationships matter', but the truth is that many people don't care about how they interact with the social media network, or its users.
