The condition was that Microsoft would allow LinkedIn to retain its distinct brand, culture, and independence. On the 13 th of June 2016, Microsoft made its largest acquisition till now, by acquiring LinkedIn for $26.2 billion. In 2016 LinkedIn was blocked in Russia for not storing citizen’s data on the servers located in Russia. In April 2014, LinkedIn leased 26 story building 222 Second Street for 10 years in San Francisco. After observing its success LinkedIn launched its mobile application in February 2008. LinkedIn reached its 1 million users in August 2004 and 10 million in April 2007. LinkedIn is available in 23 languages other than English which includes French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Dutch, Swedish, Danish, Romanian, Russian, Czech, Polish, Arabic, Chinese, Turkish, Japanese, Korean, Indonesian, Malay, and Tagalog. The revenue of LinkedIn is $3 billion, thanks to its 740 million users and 20,000 employees. On the other hand, its current CEO is Rayn Roslansky. Reid Hoffman was the founder of LinkedIn is now a chairman of the board. Its current headquarter is located in Sunnyvale, California. LinkedIn was founded on the 5 th of May 2003 in Mountain View, California, USA. It allows job seekers to create their accounts, mention their qualities, post their CVs, make connections, and apply for suitable jobs. It is a social networking service which mainly used for professional networking. Its application can be used in any operating system and the website can be accessed through any browser. LinkedIn is a job-oriented online platform that could be used to search for employment and internships. LinkedIn makes its own decisions but few parts are controlled by Microsoft. Even after owning LinkedIn, Microsoft did not interfere much in its internal matters.

It was founded by Reid Hoffman but later the company falls into the ownership of Microsoft. LinkedIn is a work searching platform, it let us search, know, apply, and work for the company, institute, startup, or business you prefer. LinkedIn is one of those platforms to find jobs of your interest. Thanks to technology, we have online modes to find a job for ourselves. It requires attention, research, activeness, and awareness to find yourself a perfect match. Searching for a job is not at all an easy task. After being done with our studies all of us crave a job to survive the rest of our lives.

Linkedin is a microsoft company