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Microsoft’s LinkedIn buy proves social media is graying

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella says the largest acquisition in the company’s history will transform both firms

IN SILICON VALLEY, FIVE YEARS MIGHT AS well be an epoch. When LinkedIn, the online network geared for professionals, went public in May 2011, it was heralded as the opening of a lucrative new frontier for fast-growing social-media firms. The stock popped 109% on its

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