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Microsoft's LinkedIn division has confirmed it is working to add puzzle-themed games to its business-based social networking platform at some point, but there's no word on when they will launch.

Microsoft confirmed that LinkedIn generated $1.7 billion in revenue for premium subscriptions from its LinkedIn business social network in 2023, and subscriber numbers went up 25 percent that year.

Microsoft's LinkedIn is expanding identification verification to 16 more countries as it tries to reach its 2025 goal of getting 100 million people verified. Verification helps build trust.

A new report says that Microsoft-owned LinkedIn has put its previously announced plans to relocate data centers to its parent company's Azure cloud servers on hold for the time being

A new report claims Microsoft is already making preparations to maybe bring in hundreds of OpenAI employees. It is getting office space set up at LinkedIn's San Francisco location.

LinkedIn has launched a new chatbot that aims to be a job seeker coach for users. LinkedIn is using GPT-4 as the base for the bot but has made improvements to latency so it responds quickly.

A recently discovered keyboard shortcut in Windows 11 will send users directly to the LinkedIn website on their default web browser. It's a shortcut that's not on Microsoft's official list.

Reports suggest that the Elon Musk-owned social media company Twitter is working on a job listings feature. Verified organisations will be able to post job openings on their Twitter profile for free.

The new Copy Suggestions feature will allow Linkedin users to use information from their pages and Campaign Manager settings that can be used by the generative AI feature to write headlines and text.

Microsoft said the Irish Data Protection Commission could leverage the fine because the regulator believes the company's Linkedin service violated GDPR privacy laws with targeted advertising.

LinkedIn is shutting down its China-focused local jobs app called InCareer, which will result in the departure of 716 employees from the company. The operations will wind down by August this year.

The professional social networking website LinkedIn was officially launched 20 years ago today. It was co-founded by Reid Hoffman and Eric Ly in December 2002 and currently has almost a billion users.

A new feature for LinkedIn Premium subscribers will let job hunters use generative AI to create messages for hiring managers. The feature uses info from the job seeker's and the manager's profiles

LinkedIn users can now verify their workplace information to boost their credibility among others on the platform. Organizations can begin issuing custom Verified IDs starting today.

The generative AI features will be added for paid LinkedIn Premium subscribers at first, and are designed to save time while also offering better profiles for users and job descriptions for businesses

A new report from the security firm Mandiant claims that a group based in North Korea is posting fake job listings on LinkedIn that eventually results in malware being downloaded to a user's PC.

The LinkedIn layoffs specificially hit the recruitment division of the business-themed social network. Specific numbers or percentages of workers affected by the layoffs were not revealed.

Microsoft has posted $52.7 billion in revenue for the previous quarter. While there is decent growth in the cloud, it is mostly offset by declines in the consumer market such as Xbox and Windows.

Microsoft has helped launch the Industry Data for Society Partnership to bring private-sector data to the public. It hopes the initiative will help tackle big societal issues such as climate change.

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Microsoft has published a strong quarter for its latest quarter (FY22 Q4) yet again. However, it has blamed global and macroeconomic factors for certain unfavorable financial results.

Zoom has showed its commitment to aiding users in strengthening and expanding their professional networks in a post-COVID world through the latest Zoom Events virtual networking features.

Do you know that Microsoft Start has 500 million monthly active users or that Power BI has over 200,000 customers? If not, check out our list of some interesting usage stats about Microsoft products.

Microsoft has reported an exceptionally strong quarter with a revenue of $49.4 billion and a net income of $16.7 billion. This was due to growth across practically all of its business segments.

Microsoft has reported a strong first quarter of its 2022 fiscal year with a revenue of $45.3 billion. It demonstrated strong growth in cloud offerings and Windows while Surface continued to decline.

With a significantly more challenging environment to operate and greater compliance requirements in China, LinkedIn is sunsetting its localized version of its app from the East Asian country.

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LinkedIn is getting rid of its Stories feature, which enabled users to post ephemeral videos. The idea, borrowed from Instagram, did not take off on Microsoft's business oriented social media site.

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Citing internal emails, a new report claims that Microsoft is offering a $1,500 "pandemic bonus" to almost all of its employees. GitHub, LinkedIn, and ZeniMax staff are apparently not eligible.

Last night, LinkedIn published a blog post denying that there was a data breach. The company said that hackers scraped data from a number of websites as well as from publicly viewable member data.

Working professionals who use LinkedIn regularly might be facing some issues at the moment. According to LinkedIn and various reports, the LinkedIn website and mobile app is down right now.

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Microsoft, Google, LinkedIn, Roblox and Yubo have said they plan to keep using technologies to detect and remove child abuse material that users attempt to upload to their services despite an EU law.