Microsoft operates the LinkedIn professional-networking platform.
Microsoft announced its acquisition of LinkedIn in 2016 and completed the transaction later that year. LinkedIn continued operating as a separate service, with its own brand and professional-networking focus, while becoming part of Microsoft's wider business portfolio.
LinkedIn was founded in 2003 and is used for professional profiles, recruitment, job listings, networking, and business publishing. It is different from Microsoft's workplace collaboration product Teams, although both services can be used by organizations. The acquisition is also separate from Microsoft's ownership of GitHub, which it bought in 2018.