The offer of $196 per share represents a premium of 49.5 per cent to LinkedIn's Friday closing price
Countries that attracted the fewest include Japan, Finland, Norway and Sweden.
Microsoft has worked hard to exploit the advantage its mail software provides
New Google CEO Sundar Pichai made ascent with low-key style and technical chops.
Many app makers have stopped work on their projects or abandoned them, mostly because of the lack of customers or limitations of the device.
The chip maker is putting money in his low-cost Braille printer project.
Shortage of top engineering talent in Silicon Valley is inflating paychecks.