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Microsoft to acquire LinkedIn for $26.2 billion | The Verge http://www.theverge.com/2016/6/13/11920072/microsoft-linkedin-acquisition-2016   Why is Microsoft buying LinkedIn? http://www.theverge.com/2016/6/13/11920938/microsoft-linkedin-acquisition-why-report Microsoft wants LinkedIn profiles to become a central identity in the workplace Nadella points out that LinkedIn is “how people find jobs, build skills, sell, market and get work done.” It’s a key tool in the professional →

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/06/what-jobs-do-people-find-the-most-meaningful/373380/?utm_source=atlfb For meaningful work and high pay, become a doctor. For work that doesn’t feel meaningful, become a lawyer. Does a preference for “meaningful” work necessitate a lifetime of modest compensation?   Low-paying service jobs—food prep, cashiers, fast-food cooks—were both poorly compensated and not meaningful. Of course, not everyone prioritizes finding “meaningful” work, and the →

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/05/being-a-go-getter-is-no-fun/393863/?utm_source=atlfb More competent people can suffer from fact that employers have higher expectations  for them, assign more work for them and often under-estimate the work needed to do the tasks. →

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/05/everything-old-is-new-again-and-vice-versa-the-predicament-of-journalism/371949/?utm_source=atlfb The old question is how the writers can make money to pay the bills is still valid today. →

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/05/the-seven-deadly-social-networks/480897/ Why on-line sosial networks are so popular? →

https://medium.com/@joshuatopolsky/your-media-business-will-not-be-saved-1b0716b5010c#.zgufvo7rz It seems that there are no silver bullets that would save traditional media. →

https://medium.com/conquering-corporate-america/toddler-vs-ceo-f241ad080d78#.b2lc2iwc8 This writer finds some funny similarities. →

The importance of ‘dogfooding’ in the cloud article from InfoWorld tells that Amazon.com runs entirely on AWS EC2 and Microsoft runs Office365, Skype, and XBox Live on Azure. But Google doesn’t run any of its products on GCP. Here’s why it matters. The term “dogfooding” is used to describe companies using their own products. The →

Man accidentally ‘deletes his entire company’ with one line of bad code from The Independent shows a good example how a small mistake can sometimes cause huge problems. Be careful and have proper backup system. Mr Marsala wrote on a forum for server experts called Server Fault that he was now stuck after having accidentally run →

http://brightside.me/wonder-curiosities/13-differences-between-busy-and-effective-people-126505/ Infographic on those differences. Posted from WordPress for Android →