Peter Thiel is investors in both companies, LinkedIn founder and Chairman Reid Hoffman invested in Facebook. 

One is for social networks, the other is a professional network.  One bills itself as a social utility, the other is about to become one, according to its founder: “over next 9 months LinkedIn would deliver APIs for developers, ostensibly to make it more of platform like Facebook, and create a way for users who spend more time socially in Facebook to get LlinkedIn notifications.”

I see more and more people using Facebook for professional and social settings, it’s almost inevitable that LinkedIn becomes a tool for social networking as well as professional intermediation.

Can it be that the companies will look almost identical in a few months?  Will they merge?  And if one gets acquired and used to enter the other’s market, what does it do to the value of the other?

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