{"id":9321,"date":"2021-07-28T11:01:41","date_gmt":"2021-07-28T15:01:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.technewsday.com\/?p=9321"},"modified":"2021-07-29T08:46:22","modified_gmt":"2021-07-29T12:46:22","slug":"linkedin-is-now-a-10-billion-business-says-microsoft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/linkedin-is-now-a-10-billion-business-says-microsoft\/","title":{"rendered":"LinkedIn Is Now A $10 Billion Business, Says Microsoft"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Microsoft officials announced that LinkedIn&#8217;s revenue exceeded $1 billion due to the strong advertising demand for Marketing Solutions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This means that LinkedIn is now part of the various Microsoft companies that generate $10 billion annually.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In its fourth-quarter FY21 earnings announcement, Microsoft said that revenue from its LinkedIn subsidiary had increased 46% year-on-year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition to the need for marketing solutions, this increase could also be attributed to job recruitment in general after the pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Microsoft has several other businesses that generate $10 billion yearly, but gaming, security and LinkedIn are the latest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Microsoft bought LinkedIn in 2016 for $26.2 billion.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>For more information, read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/microsoft-says-linkedin-is-now-a-10-billion-business\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">original story<\/a> in ZDNet.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft officials announced that LinkedIn&#8217;s revenue exceeded $1 billion, making it a $10 billion business.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,17],"tags":[74,62],"class_list":["post-9321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-companies","category-data-analytics","tag-linkedin","tag-microsoft"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9321"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9371,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9321\/revisions\/9371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}