One of LinkedIns possible suitors whom Microsoft beat was the American cloud computing company Salesforce.
Perhaps the LinkedIn promoters feared uncertainties of a stock-and-cash deal offered by Salesforce.
Now it is revealed that Salesforce was willing to pay much much more than Microsoft.
Microsofts Nadella sweetened the deal further for LinkedIn by offering $725 million breakup fee provision.
And the rest is history.
source: www.techworm.net
