{"id":26822,"date":"2016-06-13T14:20:12","date_gmt":"2016-06-13T21:20:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/microsofts-linkedin-buy-escalates-cloud-wars"},"modified":"2017-06-04T19:56:29","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T02:56:29","slug":"microsofts-linkedin-buy-escalates-cloud-wars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/microsofts-linkedin-buy-escalates-cloud-wars","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft\u2019s LinkedIn buy escalates cloud wars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/microsofts-linkedin-buy-escalates-cloud-wars.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith the LinkedIn acquisition, Microsoft snares two prizes: the massive amounts of data contained in LinkedIn\u2019s 433 million member profiles that are kept scrupulously up to date by business professionals and to which competitors have no access and the brainy computer algorithms that crunch that data.\u201d the writeup.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Buying the Facebook of professional networks is perhaps the best illustration yet that the cloud wars are heating up.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/tech\/columnist\/2016\/06\/13\/microsoft-linkedin-technology-titans-cloud-wars\/85831124\/\">http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/tech\/columnist\/2016\/06\/13\/micr...\/85831124\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWith the LinkedIn acquisition, Microsoft snares two prizes: the massive amounts of data contained in LinkedIn\u2019s 433 million member profiles that are kept scrupulously up to date by business professionals and to which competitors have no access and the brainy computer algorithms that crunch that data.\u201d the writeup. Buying the Facebook of professional networks is [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,1523,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-computing","category-information-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26822"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26822\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67228,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26822\/revisions\/67228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}