Month: June 2016

Euro Cup 2016

The 2016 UEFA European Championship, commonly referred to as UEFA Euro 2016 or simply Euro 2016, is the 15th edition of the UEFA European Championship, the quadrennial international men’s football championship of Europe organized by UEFA. It is currently being held in France from 10 June to 10 July 2016. Spain are the two-time defending champions, having won the 2008 and 2012 editions.

For the first time, the European Championship final tournament will be contested by 24 teams, having been expanded from the 16-team format used since 1996.[3] Under this new format, the finalists will contest a group stage consisting of six groups of four teams, followed by a knockout stage including three rounds and the final. Nineteen teams – the top two from each of the nine qualifying groups and the best third-placed team – joined France, who qualified automatically as hosts; a series of two-legged play-off ties between the remaining third-placed teams in November 2015 decided the last four spots at the final tournament.

Microsoft To Buy LinkedIn For $26.2 Billion

Microsoft has agreed to acquire LinkedIn the largest professional network for a whopping $26.2 billion. This makes it ones of the biggest tech acquisitions in the history.

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said this acquisition aims to bridge the gap between the Microsoft tools people use to get a job done such as the Office with the tools that helps professionals connect with each other. This opens up a lot of possibilities like you can already connect to the person you’re meeting with. See what they do and if you use Microsoft Dynamics for managing customer relationships, then this gets even better as you have access to the LinkedIn data.

Its exciting to see this merger. Lets see what comes out of this in the coming months.