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LinkedIn Windows Phone app gets major update

John Callaham — Wed, 17 Apr 2013 02:00:00 +0100

A new version of the LinkedIn app for Windows Phone devices is now available for download, adding new Live Tile and Lock screen functionality, along with other new features. Read more...

LinkedIn buys Pulse newsreader app for $90 million

John Callaham — Fri, 12 Apr 2013 00:41:53 +0100

LinkedIn has finally announced it has acquired the Pulse newsreader app team, following rumors of such a deal that started a month ago, for $90 million in a mostly stock deal. Read more...

Report: LinkedIn beats Microsoft in acquiring Pulse news app

John Callaham — Mon, 11 Mar 2013 22:27:48 +0000

LinkedIn is reportedly acquiring Pulse, the company behind the popular newsreader app, for between $50 million to $100 million. Microsoft was reportedly in talks to acquire Pulse as well. Read more...

LinkedIn uses infographic to celebrate 200 million user milestone

John Callaham — Wed, 09 Jan 2013 19:26:16 +0000

LinkedIn announced today that the business oriented social network now has 200 million members and celebrated that milestone with a new infographic that shows some of the company's interesting stats. Read more...

Facebook brings social job discovery to the USA

Paul Ferson — Wed, 14 Nov 2012 21:34:08 +0000

Employment isn't always easy to find, but Facebook is trying to change that. The giant social network has partnered with numerous entities to bring the hunt to the News Feed. Read more...

New job search site combines want ads with social media

Christopher White — Tue, 03 Jul 2012 15:40:03 +0100

There's a new job search website available, Jackalope Jobs, and they combine the job listings with people you know who work at the companies in question to help you make inroads to a new position. Read more...

LinkedIn users can't publish Tweets to their profiles anymore

John Callaham — Sat, 30 Jun 2012 01:47:26 +0100

LinkedIn has announced that, due to tighter restrictions put in place by Twitter, LinkedIn users won't be able to publish their Tweets to their LinkedIn profile anymore. Read more...

Woman files lawsuit against LinkedIn over password breaches

Paul Ferson — Wed, 20 Jun 2012 22:35:21 +0100

An Illinois woman has filed a lawsuit against LinkedIn after its password breach, citing the company's incorrect claims about its level of protection for users. Read more...

LinkedIn offers another update on password breach

John Callaham — Sun, 10 Jun 2012 21:47:50 +0100

The official LinkedIn blog made a rare weekend post for an update on how it the company is dealing with its recent security breach that caused over 6 million passwords to be leaked to the Internet. Read more...

Hacked LinkedIn accounts already being used by criminals

John Callaham — Thu, 07 Jun 2012 03:41:45 +0100

Some LinkedIn accounts that were lifted from the company's servers in a cyber attack are already being used by criminals to send emails that link to scam websites. Read more...

Millions of LinkedIn passwords have been stolen

John Callaham — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 16:23:49 +0100

A new report claims that a poster on a Russian message board has released over 6.4 million hashed passwords from LinkedIn members, with over 300,000 of the weaker passwords already cracked. Read more...

First official LinkedIn app for Windows Phone released

Anthony Tosie — Mon, 14 May 2012 03:35:21 +0100

The official LinkedIn app for Windows Phone was released earlier today. The app requires Windows Phone 7.5, and joins official Facebook and Twitter apps on Microsoft's smartphone platform. Read more...

Facebook and Twitter report record number of visitors in July

Denis Wong — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 03:47:07 +0100

Despite the looming presence of Google+, last July was the best month for Facebook and Twitter, with both sites posting record numbers of unique visitors to their sites. Read more...

Microsoft talks about Windows Phone 7 Mango Twitter and LinkedIn integration

John Callaham — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 13:09:34 +0100

The upcoming Mango update for Windows Phone 7 users will have a large number of new features and improvements. This week Microsoft updated its official YouTube channel for Windows Phone 7 that goes over a... Read more...

LinkedIn CEO questions if people will have time for Google+

John Callaham — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 10:34:23 +0100

With over 10 million registered users in just a few weeks (and it's still invite only) Google's new social networking service Google+ has gotten tons of buzz. But the CEO of a rival social networking... Read more...

LinkedIn now second in social networking behind Facebook

John Callaham — Sat, 09 Jul 2011 02:43:22 +0100

The social networking web sites all follow Facebook which isn't likely to give up its number one spot anytime soon. However, there is a lot of competition for the number two slot. Today, TechCrunch reports... Read more...

Men are better at using social media for networking than women are

Christopher White — Fri, 24 Jun 2011 14:35:14 +0100

The gender stereotype is that women are the social butterflies and that men hole up in their caves and act in an anti-social manner. Based on that, you would expect women would be better at... Read more...

Report: Facebook IPO could reach $100 billion in value

John Callaham — Mon, 13 Jun 2011 18:08:30 +0100

When and if Facebook decides to sell its stock shares to the public, the value of the social networking company could be pretty massive. CNBC reports via unnamed sources, that the company founded by Mark... Read more...

LinkedIn vulnerable through cookie exploit, says expert

Tim Schiesser — Mon, 23 May 2011 14:01:45 +0100

According to Indian security expert Rishi Narang, popular business networking site LinkedIn has security vulnerabilities that could lead to unauthorized account access without a password. This vulnerability it just the latest in a huge string... Read more...

LinkedIn's stock price doubles in first day of IPO

John Callaham — Thu, 19 May 2011 22:38:27 +0100

Today was the first day for people to purchase and trade stock in the business oriented social networking web site LinkedIn and it was a very good day for people who decided to put their... Read more...