Microsoft to go after Salesforce and Oracle using LinkedIn data For its users, LinkedIn can be a valuable professional networking tool for making connections and keeping informed. For Microsoft, which bought LinkedIn for $26 billion last year, the business-connections platform has now become a weapon against San Francisco sales-software giant Salesforce and Redwood City business-software behemoth Oracle. (Siliconbeat)
I think Linkedin is losing its purpose. It's just a website where you can look for a job. It's not a social network anymore.