Microsoft announced a $26.2 billion deal on Monday to acquire professional social platform LinkedIn for $196 per share.
Shares of LinkedIn surged 47 percent after the announcement to near $193, while Microsoft's stock was down 3.2 percent. Trading in Microsoft had been halted briefly for news pending before the announcement of the all-cash deal.
By 2030, every rural town in Africa could be equipped with an undulating red brick droneport, designed by starchitect Norman Foster, to serve as a hub for deliveries of crucial medical supplies. Dubbed the “world’s smallest airport,” a full-scale prototype of the first droneport has been unveiled at the 15th International Architecture Biennale in Venice.
The concept of “cyber war” goes back to the beginning of the internet, almost 50 years ago. A new book by Pulitzer-Prize-winning journalist Fred Kaplan traces the history of this topic in his new book Dark Territory: The Secret History of Cyber War.
Kaplan recently appeared on the Knowledge@Wharton show on Wharton Business Radio on SiriusXM channel 111 to talk about his new book.
An edited transcript of the conversation follows.
Digital thieves’ most crucial adaptation in recent years has little to do with their technical tools and everything to do with their business model.
It’s a good time to be a cybercriminal. There are more victims to target, there is more data to steal, and there is more money to be made from doing so than ever before.
More than 40 percent of investors withheld votes for the eight directors put forward by the Los Angeles Times publisher. That’s virtually unheard of, especially when proxy advisers like ISS favor the candidates.
As with other unlikely situations, such as Walt Disney’s investor revolt in 2004, the squeals of jilted minorities can kick directors into action. This should be embarrassing enough for Tribune’s board to force tin-eared Chairman Michael Ferro to listen to Gannett’s overtures.
This will be Africa's largest museum in over 100 years
Cape Town is about to become home to one of the most influential art institutions in the world. The 100,000-square-foot Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa will be the biggest museum to open on the continent for more than a hundred years. Clocking in at about $38 million, it just might shift the contemporary art world as we know it.
Once you learn about the endocannabinoid system in your body, it becomes very clear just why cannabis can treat so many different illnesses.
The great thing about cannabis as medicine is that it’s all-natural, and you don’t have to worry about potentially fatal side effects that you get with other so-called medicines.
Our medicine should be something that makes us feel better, not a chemical experiment that makes us feel worse or that could kill us.
BEDFORD, Mass. Today’s topic: stress.
Psychologist Tu Ngo looks out at a small group of veterans seated around a classroom table. “Why would we be talking about stress when we’re here because of your pain?” she asks seriously, then smiles. “Lil’ pop quiz now.”
Value is the only commonality in an increasingly complex, challenging and interdependent world.
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