[ajmurmann]

I like the idea of shorting LinkedIn. My main fear heat would be that someone would drive the price up by acquiring them if you wait too long with cashing in on the short.

[therein]

Umm, LinkedIn is really too big to be acquired. LinkedIn acquires companies instead. They've recently acquired Lynda.com [1]

[1] https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/linkedin/acquisition...