Salesforce asks Europe to stop Microsoft buying LinkedIn after itself trying to buy LinkedIn Salesforce has called on the European Commission to block Microsoft's acquisition of LinkedIn. A widely circulated statement from Salesforce Chief Legal Officer Burke Norton says “By gaining ownership of LinkedIn's unique dataset of over 450 million professionals in more than 200 countries, Microsoft will be able to deny …
It doesn't apply in case of linkedin, but it's interesting to see how this plays out. If the EC agrees with Salesforce, it would mean that you could potentially run a company to the ground out of spite if they didn't let you buy them out before, or destroy your competition by preventing a merger where the resulting company would be a realistic threat.
I can't see the commission following this argument at all: Microsoft is not currently in the HR business, plenty of other platforms exist.
Sounds like poor PR from Salesforce perhaps as part of a phoney war to buy failed social network business, Twitter. Or bidding up its own price prior to being bought by Oracle.
>t would mean that you could potentially run a company to the ground out of spite if they didn't let you buy them out before
I think salesforce are desperately trying to save linkedin ... if MS takes them over, they are dead wood ... only the MS fanboys will stay on it ... look at yammer ... dead.
The funny thing is, if the EC steps up against the acquisition, as MS says, other jurisdictions have already agreed ... it is goona be tricky for MS to get out of that mess ... perfect timing on Salesforces' part ... and no, no fanboy here, salesforce software is crap, they are the proof their software is crap, missing targets and writing red every quarter ...
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