Asaf Zamir – Chief Technology Officer & AI/Cloud Consultant. Founder of CloudExpat, AZdev. Author of Coder to CTO.

In a move that may surprise many, Microsoft just made a deal to buy LinkedIn,
for the amount of $26.2 Billion.

How does this compare to the Whatsapp deal (last huge tech buy)? Well, since a picture is worth a thousand words, I've decided to make an infographic (almost a picture):

In an expected move (it was almost done a few days ago, and has been in the making),
Google announced it bought Waze.
Waze - The Social GPS App from Israel, has been greatly popular within car drivers, helping people dodge traffic jams,
road blocks, and a lot more, was created at 2008 (which makes it one of the firsts of its kind).