The original content of Democracy Now! Headlines appears under the Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 3.0 License (United States). For more, including their other shows and media, visit www.democracynow.org. June 14, 2016 Microsoft to Buy LinkedIn in $26.2 Billion Deal ----------------------------------------------- Microsoft has announced it's buying the digital networking platform Linked In for $26.2 billion. The deal marks the largest in Microsoft's history and one of the largest in the history of the tech industry. .