Prediction: Microsoft will Acquire Bloomberg

This article is speculative, and is just a prediction of things to come.

With Mike Bloomberg buying himself into the Democratic Presidential candidate race, spending over $400 million in recent weeks on Political Ads, not to mention Instagram memes by influencers, this is what democracy looks like.

Microsoft, now worth nearly $1.4 Trillion is the ideal buyer for Bloomberg. Bloomberg is of course a financial, software, data, and media company headquartered in Midtown Manhattan, that Mike founded nearly 40 years ago.

Microsoft could acquire it for around $47 Billion dollars and they would get access to a lot of financial data to boost Azure.

Bloomberg made $10.5 billion in 2019, with a 37% profit margin and would fit in well with Microsoft's platform portfolio. LinkedIn owned by Microsoft has been getting into News in a significant way.

If Mike Bloomberg is to appear to be a credible presidential Candidate he needs to sell Bloomberg in a hurry, and Microsoft is the obvious choice for a buyer. Ironically Microsoft has developed software for vote counting called ElectionGuard. Microsoft has been working on software called ElectionGuard that will create a paper trail and assure voters their vote was properly tallied.

Microsoft could consider adding financial information to the services it offers enterprises around the globe. With a $1.4 trillion market capitalization, it could absorb Bloomberg easily. It's also a no-brainer for a company that has a pattern of major acquisitions in recent years.

Microsoft is the world’s largest business software company, and Bloomberg Group is the well-known “financial media empire” in the United States and even the world. This is a capitalism of Titans, and if Donald Trump can make AWS lose a Pentagon Cloud deal, Bloomberg can certainly benefit the technology behemoth in a classical American "win-win".

While Bernie Sanders might be unstoppable now according to the latest polls, where the Las Vegas debate tonight tells the tale, Microsoft can be opportunistic for Bloomberg's financial data here. These are irrational times on the Stock Market and the super-platforms are gaining even stronger market-shares in the future of capitalism.

Mike Bloomberg has essentially leap-frogged Warren and even Buttigieg the American way, buying his way into our hearts. Sort of like what Satya Nadella has done with Microsoft's pivot into the Cloud. Money talks in this world, and financial data matters.

Bloomberg has said he would sell his company if he was elected as President. Jeff Bezos of Amazon hoped Mike would run, and he has. Recently it was revealed that Bloomberg would put Bloomberg LP into a blind trust, and the trustee would then sell the company, adviser Tim O’Brien said.

Technology and politics really are intertwined in ways we never imagined. In an era of buying elections, lobbying and Cloud wars, companies like Apple and Microsoft have navigated the political landscape between China and the U.S. also very successfully.

As early as December last year, Bloomberg said that if he was running for president, he would either sell the company or put it under a confidential trust. Rumors of Microsoft being a candidate to buy haven't gone away, they have only intensified. In the press’s conversation with financial professionals in New York and London, a name keeps emerging: Microsoft Corporation.

The only restriction Bloomberg would put on the sale is that it not be sold to a foreign buyer or a private equity company. Proceeds from the sale would go to Bloomberg Philanthropies, the charitable giving arm that funds causes from climate change to public health and grants for American cities. Microsoft as an AI for Good company, could use that good press.

Bloomberg said in 2018, when he was considering a presidential run, that he would consider selling his business if elected. While Bloomberg was historically an incredibly sexist place to work for women, Mike Bloomberg needs to paint himself as a good guy to take on Donald Trump. He even devised a plan to tax the wealthy (a financial tax on all transactions), because that's what it takes to win against Sanders and Mayor Pete.

Who would benefit the most from Mike Bloomberg becoming the next President? It might actually be Microsoft. Experts say the deal could make sense for Microsoft because Bloomberg is a treasure trove of data, and I agree. LinkedIn and GitHub have been data treasure droves for Microsoft, and so would Bloomberg. In an era where technology companies are increasing becoming like data banks of the future, it would make a lot of sense.

Do you think Microsoft might acquire Bloomberg? Why or why not?