LinkedIn has filed for an initial public offering, potentially paving the way for Facebook, Twitter, Groupon and other Internet companies to join the publicly traded sector. – LinkedIn Jan. 27 confirmed it has filed for an initial public offering with the Securities and
Exchange Commission, with designs on raising at least $175 million in stock.
LinkedIn, the latest Internet company to commit to the
publicly traded stock market, is the world’s largest business contact…
LinkedIn for Android is somewhat baked, launched in beta. However, users must jump through hoops to test the fledgling application on their Android handsets. – LinkedIn users with Android smartphones have long felt
left out, but that is set to change as the social network for professionals launched
its LinkedIn for Android application to beta Dec. 16.
LinkedIn for Android offers many of the same features available to mobile
users of LinkedIn’s BlackBer…
LinkedIn and Facebook are separated by keg stands, said LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner, who also said the social network’s hiring solutions business boomed in 2010. – SAN FRANCISCO — LinkedIn’s growth is now paced by new
hiring solutions that surged in 2010 to become the business social network’s
largest and fastest growing business.
Hiring solutions help surface LinkedIn users with
professional recruiters, said LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner at the Web 2.0 Summit…
Ciscos Global Threat Report examines the most prevalent Web malware, e-mail attacks, exploits and other cyber-crime incidents from July to September 2010. – Botnet activity, malicious spam and resurgence of SQL
injection attacks were some of the most significant cyber-crime threats during
the third quarter of 2010, according to a multiteam report from Cisco released
Nov. 17.
According to the report, enterprise users experienced an
average of 133 We…
Cisco Systems says spammers targeted LinkedIn members with fake connection requests that downloaded a worm known for stealing user bank account information. – Malicious cyber-criminals aren’t just targeting Twitter users; LinkedIn
members are in their crosshairs, as well.
LinkedIn members were reportedly deluged with spam e-mail messages
masquerading as connection requests from the career-oriented social networking
site Sept. 27.
Clicking on these …
LinkedIn acquired business-to-business ratings vendor ChoiceVendor, the social network’s second purchase since bagging mSpoke in August. LinkedIn is buying talent for an IPO. – LinkedIn Sept. 23 announced its second acquisition, purchasing business
ratings startup ChoiceVendor for an undisclosed sum.
The company, founded by CEO Yan-David
Erlich and Vice President of Engineering Rama Ranganath, offered ratings and
reviews of call centers, payroll services and other serv…
LinkedIn made its first purchase Aug. 4, buying recommendation software maker mSpoke for an undisclosed sum. The deal will boost LinkedIn’s business networking capabilities. – LinkedIn Aug. 4 agreed to buy recommendation software
startup mSpoke to boost its social network of more than 75 million users.
Financial terms for the deal, LinkedIn’s first purchase,
were not disclosed.
mSpoke makes three core products for content publishers,
research analysts and individuals…
LinkedIn is rolling out several improvements to its Groups service that enhance the social conversation utilities for its 70 million users. One of the more enjoyable new features in Groups is a content carousel. After sharing content, a user can click on the carousel to scroll through posts, RSS items and links shared by group members. Users can of course mark something as a like or comment on discussions similar to the way they would join conversations or contribute information on Facebook. – LinkedIn began rolling out several changes to its Groups
service June 22 that improve the social conversation quotient for the
professional social network.
Groups lets LinkedIn’s 70 million users join a smaller network of contacts
within LinkedIn. Users can click the Groups tab at the top of the…
LinkedIn June 7 released LinkedIn for BlackBerry 1.1 with support for BlackBerry Storm and Pearl devices. LinkedIn for Blackberry 1.1 also includes more detail of what connections have been changing on their profile, including education and headline. Users will also know when connections add an Twitter account and Instant Messenger account. There are also improvements in how LinkedIn renders fonts, as well as some improvements to the company updates the BlackBerry Contacts application when it has enabled address book integration with LinkedIn. – As the top social network for businesses, it’s important
for LinkedIn to support as many enterprise-oriented mobile phones as possible.
LinkedIn June 7 released LinkedIn for BlackBerry 1.1 with support for BlackBerry Storm and
Pearl devices, adding to the Bold, Tour and Curve devices the applicat…
LinkedIn adds a feature to its Tweets application that lets users track their LinkedIn connections on both LinkedIn and Twitter. Tweets users may click to see all of their LinkedIn connections who have added Twitter accounts to their LinkedIn profiles. The Tweets app is important because it opens up the potential for LinkedIn to reach some of Twitter’s user base of 100 million people. Moreover, Twitter feed integrations also exist between Twitter and Facebook, Twitter and Microsoft and Twitter and Google. – LinkedIn May 26 added a feature to its Tweets application that lets users
track their LinkedIn connections on Twitter as well.
LinkedIn began letting users tweet to Twitter from LinkedIn and vice versa in November 2009 through
Tweets, which has been picked up by more than 1 million users.
The ne…
LinkedIn for BlackBerry 1.0 for BlackBerry Tour, Bold and Curve smartphones lets users search among the 60 million LinkedIn members and trade invitations with prospective contacts, with tight integration between mail, contacts and calendar. The app should satisfy the millions of users whose companies issue them BlackBerry smartphones for business communications.
– LinkedIn March 29 released LinkedIn for BlackBerry 1.0, an application that
brings the leading professional social network to users of the leading
smartphone for corporate workers who need to access their contacts from the
road.
LinkedIn for BlackBerry lets BlackBerry Tour, Bold and Curve users …
LinkedIn has improved its search technology by adding new filters to make it easier for the professional networking site’s users to find who and what they are looking for. These filters help users whittle down their queries based on: current company and past company, location, relationship, location, industry, school, and profile languages. The site now features a new Refine By module that will include a list of the most relevant facets based on query results.
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LinkedIn has improved its search technology by adding new filters to make it
easier for the professional networking site’s more than 50 million users to
find new contacts.
LinkedIn users need to be aware of these faceted search filters,
which are generated on the fly based on users…
LinkedIn Nov. 23 followed through on its plans to launch a development platform, opening Developer.linkedin.com to let softwareprogrammers put LinkedIn’s profile content into their business applications and Web sites. Microsoft is using LinkedIn to add profile information to Microsoft Office 2010 e-mail users with the Outlook Social Connector.
Twitter application TweetDeck will support the LinkedIn platform in its next version, allowing TweetDeck users to access their LinkedIn network updates from within TweetDeck, which will add a LinkedIn column.
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Leading professional social network LinkedIn Nov. 23
followed through on its plans to launch a development platform, opening
Developer.linkedin.com to let softwareprogrammers put LinkedIn’s profile content into
their business applications and Web sites.
LinkedIn has helped over 50 …
Gist Public Profiles is a new service that lets users publish their contact details, including name, company name and profile picture, personalized news and social network data on a public Web page. Ideally, this service — and certainly any inclusion deals with Google, Bing or both — will help Gist grow its users base. While Gist is a fledgling offering yearning for traction among any users who will try it out, e-mail inbox management and socialization tools are gaining traction in businesses. Xobni launched Xobni Enterprise, a secure version of its e-mail search plug-in, while Microsoft launched Outlook Social Connector.
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Interest in personalizing the e-mail inbox is peaking, as
Gist Nov. 19 began allowing users to claim vanity URLs and curate their own public profiles for
the Web.
Gist is a free Web application that
lets users more smoothly manage their personal and professional contacts in
Micros…
Does local beat global in the professional-networking business?
IN THE three-way fight between the biggest online professional networks—America’s LinkedIn, France’s Viadeo and Germany’s Xing—this week the French contender scored a victory. Last year LinkedIn had struck a deal with Apec, France’s best-known professional-recruitment service, to offer search functions to its huge customer base of over 30,000 companies and 500,000 executives. But on November 17th Apec made a new deal with Viadeo, having noted that although LinkedIn could reach executives at France’s biggest international companies, it failed to connect enough people in the country’s thousands of smaller firms.
In professional networking, argues Dan Serfaty, Viadeo’s founder, having local depth is better than signing up a narrow slice of the highest-powered people around the world. A typical LinkedIn member would be an investment banker at Societe Generale, a French bank, he says, “too proud to invite his friends to join or to pay for it”. In contrast, Mr Serfaty claims, Viadeo signs up branch managers for Societe Generale, who use the site often and are happy to spend €5 ($7.50) a month on a subscription. Local entrepreneurs and provincial civil servants may be less impressive as members than Bill Gates, Microsoft’s co-founder, Mr Serfaty continues, but they are more engaged. (Mr Gates has been on LinkedIn since last year, and so far has made only five connections to other members.) At Xing, too, a hyper-local network which went public in 2006, the typical member is not a senior executive but a middle manager, says Stefan Gross-Selbeck, its boss. …
LinkedIn Nov. 10 agreed to let its users tweet their status to Twitter and to their LinkedIn connections. Status updates have been an important part of LinkedIn, with working professionals using it to alert others to sales leads, new jobs and other business opportunities. Twitter is the king of the status update, with millions of users blasting out 140 messages to followers each day. LinkedIn may be the leading social networking for professionals, but it’s membership growth has cooled in the last two years. Meanwhile, Facebook has soared to more 300 million users, sparking speculation that many people have turned to the leading social network for their personal and professional connections.
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LinkedIn Nov. 10 agreed to add Twitter’s tweeting
capability to its network of 50 million business professionals in a deal for
which financial terms were not made public.
Soon LinkedIn users will be able to tweet their status to
Twitter and to their LinkedIn connections, broadcasti…
