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Will Facebook and LinkedIn Converge or Diverge?

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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Posted By: Ashkan Karbasfrooshan | Jun 24th

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