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The LinkedIn Perspective

LinkedIn Official Blog: Microsoft and LinkedIn: Together Changing the Way the World Works

VentureBeat: Read the Emotional Speech LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner Gave Employees after the Microsoft Deal

Good Move or Bad Move?

engadget: Why Microsoft is the Best Home for LinkedIn

NYT: Why LinkedIn will Make You Hate Microsoft Word

What Bill Gates Thinks

CNET: Bill Gates Throws His Weight Behind Microsoft’s $26B Acquisition of LinkedIn

Business Insider: Bill Gates Says a Microsoft-Owned LinkedIn Could be as Valuable as the Facebook News Feed

Salesforce’s Loss

WSJ: Salesforce.com Lost LinkedIn Bid to Microsoft

What it Means

The Motley Fool: Microsoft’s LinkedIn Corp Acquisition: Three Reasons to be Skeptical

CNBC.com: With LinkedIn Deal, Microsoft is Bringing in a New Era of Software

Follow-On Rumor Mill

The Economic Times (India): Microsoft-LinkedIn Deal Ignites Twitter Speculation

Market Impact

Fortune: LinkedIn’s Soar on Microsoft Acquisition Boosts Few Funds

Seeking Alpha: LinkedIn Stumble Triggers a Microsoft Opportunity

While net neutrality is not the mainstream flavor-of-the-month issue (although John Oliver and Stephen Colbert each did his best), this week’s U.S. Court ruling affects the way we will all experience the internet for the foreseeable future.

recode:  A Huge Win on Net Neutrality could Embolden the FCC to Tighten Regulations in Other Areas

“Earlier this week, a federal appeals court upheld the agency’s right to regulate both wired and wireless broadband in the same way as other telecommunications services, using Title II of the 1934 Communications act. While likely to be appealed to the Supreme Court, some see the appellate ruling as enough approval to inspire more aggressive action by the FCC.”

NPR: U.S. Court Upholds Net Neutrality Rules in Full  

“[Net neutrality is] the idea that phone and cable companies should treat all of the traffic on their networks equally — no blocking or slowing their competitors, and no fast lanes for companies that can pay more.”

“The ruling was celebrated as a victory for consumers by various public interest groups and Internet companies that had supported the FCC in the lawsuit. However, the telecom industry is expected to continue battling the regulations in Congress and before the nation’s higher court…”

For those who want to skip all of the above links, here is a nerd treat: Ev Williams‘ thoughts on how the web Web has morphed over time and where it is all headed.

The Atlantic:  The Forest Gump of the Internet

“Williams looks the tech-CEO part. He is tall, soft-spoken, with a constant air of chilled-out concern. His gray hoodie and black t-shirt are woven from some athleisure Star Fleet-issue textile, and he wears broad, squarish white glasses that I internally dub the Warby Mugatu. Within minutes of arriving, he has launched back into his endless theme, which he expands on across multiple meetings, on two different coasts, across three months: “The open web,” he says, “is pretty broken.” But don’t worry—he has a plan to save it, or, at least, sort of save it. And it involves text boxes.”

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