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Microsoft announced that it will buy LinkedIn for $26 Billion, it will pay $18 Billion in cash to the the company.The software Giant will pay $196 per share to the  company.The deal is biggest ever for Microsoft and one of the largest in tech industry. With this move the Tech Giant aims to boost sales of its business and email software. The 13 year old LinkedIn has 433 million users worldwide,the acquisition comes at a time when LinkedIn was striving to grow further beyond its reach.Microsoft already has announced that LinkedIn will retain its identity.The company hope to merge Microsoft's office 365 and other products with LinkedIn professional social Network. "The relationship with Microsoft, and the combination of their cloud and LinkedIn's network ,now gives us a chance to change the way the world works" Weiner said in a statement. "This combination will make it possible for new experiences such as a LinkedIn newsfeed that serves up arti...

 To start with lets have some facts about watsapp : 450 million active users, and reached that number faster than any other company in history. 32 engineers, one developer supports 14 million active users. 50 billion messages every day across seven platforms (inbound + outbound). 1+ million people sign up every day. $0 invested in advertising. 35% is how much of Facebook's cash is being used for the deal. Hundreds of nodes. >8000 cores. Hundreds of terabytes of RAM. >70M Erlang messages per second.  As a programmer if you ask me if WhatsApp is worth that much I’ll answer expletive no! It’s just sending stuff over a network. Get real. But I’m also the guy that thought we don’t need blogging platforms because how hard is it to remote login to your own server, edit the index.html file with vi, then write your post in HTML? It has taken quite a while for me to realize it’s not the code stupid, it’s getting all those u...