{"id":1026902,"date":"2026-08-07T07:38:19","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T02:08:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1026902"},"modified":"2026-08-07T07:46:23","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T02:16:23","slug":"linkedin-executives-can-be-questioned-in-antitrust-lawsuit-judge-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/07\/linkedin-executives-can-be-questioned-in-antitrust-lawsuit-judge-rules\/","title":{"rendered":"LinkedIn executives can be questioned in antitrust lawsuit, judge rules"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A group of current and former senior LinkedIn \u200bexecutives including billionaire co-founder Reid Hoffman \u200bcan be questioned in a lawsuit accusing the \u200bcompany of illegally monopolizing the professional social media market, a federal judge has ruled. <\/p>\n<p>Here are the details: <\/p>\n<p>* U.S. Magistrate Judge Laurel Beeler in San Francisco said in an order on \u200cTuesday that the \u2060plaintiffs \u2060can depose LinkedIn&#8217;s current chief executive Daniel Shapero for four hours, and question former CEO Hoffman \u200bfor three hours. Hoffman sold LinkedIn to Microsoft for $26.2 billion in 2016.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A group of current and former senior LinkedIn \u200bexecutives including billionaire co-founder Reid Hoffman \u200bcan be questioned in a lawsuit accusing the \u200bcompany of illegally monopolizing the professional social media market, a federal judge has ruled. Here are the details: * U.S. Magistrate Judge Laurel Beeler in San Francisco said in an order on \u200cTuesday that the \u2060plaintiffs \u2060can depose LinkedIn&#8217;s current chief executive Daniel Shapero for four hours, and question former CEO Hoffman \u200bfor three hours. Hoffman sold LinkedIn to Microsoft for $26.2 billion in 2016.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1026902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1026902"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026902\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1026925,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026902\/revisions\/1026925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1026902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1026902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1026902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}