LINKEDIN popularity and LINKEDIN trends

Rapportive, which makes a browser plug-in that overlays Gmail with contextual information about email contacts, is being acquired by LinkedIn, sources said.

Klout‘s mobile initiative is starting to take shape with its first-ever acquisition. The San Francisco-based startup has acquired BlockBoa…

Flush with new capital, Klout, the startup that measures influence on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, YouTube, Foursquare, Google+ and other social apps, is making its first acquisition. Klout is purchasing mobile and local neighborhood app Blockboard. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Blockboard develops a neighborhood app through which neighbors can interact with one another. They...

Mehrere Internetfirmen profitieren von dem Hype um den Facebook-Börsengang. Die Aktien von Groupon und LinkedIn verzeichneten zeitweise ein deutliches Plus. Am stärksten legte der Spieleentwickler Zynga zu.

Think of yourself as a start-up and social networking as your best marketing move, says the founder of LinkedIn

As Facebook prepares to go public, five key figures, from Bono to LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman, are set to make billions

I used to be shy about gently nudging people to join LinkedIn, but of course I'm not shy about that now.

An ex-employee asks Inside Apple's author "What creates the perfect Kool-Aid drinker?" From the Q&A at LinkedIn headquarters On the first stop on his publicity tour -- at the headquarters of LinkedIn -- Adam Lashinsky met a former Apple (AAPL) employee who had read Lashinky's book and was in a position to comment on how accurately it portrays life Inside Apple. We've poste...

Google und Yahoo sind schon lange an der Börse, LinkedIn und Groupon inzwischen ebenfalls - jetzt hat offenbar auch das Warten auf Facebook ein Ende. Mark Zuckerberg könnte den Börsengang des sozialen Netzwerks schon diese Woche anstoßen.

Medienberichten zufolge steht Facebooks Börsengang unmittelbar bevor. Die Meldung hat nicht nur nur für große Aufregung gesorgt, sondern auch andere Internet-Titeln wie Groupon oder Linkedin ein Börsen-Hoch beschert.

RABAT (Reuters) - Viadeo, the world's second-biggest online networking site for professionals after LinkedIn, said on Friday it had opened a regional branch in Morocco as it seeks to expand its presence in the increasingly-wired Arab world.

I’ve switched to part-time work at my employer and started my own business, but the company says I’m misrepresenting myself

I end up deleting someone from my LinkedIn connection list about once a month, and always for the same reason: they've made it clear that they don't do a good job navigating business/social interactions.

One day last fall, Reid Hoffman, the social networking guru and founder of LinkedIn, woke up at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, where he breakfasted with Magic Johnson and then spoke to a few hundred HR professionals. On a flight to San Francisco he scarfed down a turkey sandwich while I quizzed him, then sat for the closing interview at the Web 2.0 Summit. While catching up with friends in the gre...

Beware the headline that says a large hedge fund or institutional investor  whittled its stake in LinkedIn. It probably did nothing of the sort. In November 2011, following the May IPO of the business networking site, employees at LinkedIn (LNKD), were allowed to monetize their holdings within a brokerage account, according to a spokesman. Many [...]

Aiming to compete with LinkedIn, independent developers of new apps are trying to add a professional information layer to Facebook.

AN EXECUTIVE who posted his CV online was fired because he stated he was interested in 'career opportunities'.

John Flexman has launched a tribunal claiming he was sacked from gas explorers BG Group in Reading, Berkshire, for ticking a box relating to career opportunities.

KLM bietet seinen Gästen einen bizarren Service an: Vor dem Flug können Passagiere ihre Sitznachbarn über Social Media-Seiten wie Facebook oder Linkedin kennenlernen. Nach Angaben eines "USA Today"-Berichts können sich die Passagiere beim Checkin auf Wunsch Informationen über ihre Mitreisenden einholen und so vielleicht auch einen gleichgesinnten Passagier ausfindig machen, der beispielsweise ...

Microsoft ha dado las primeras explicaciones sobre su proyecto so.cl. En contra de lo que aseguraban las primeras filtraciones sobre el mismo, no se trata de una red social que quiera competir con Facebook o Google +. Se orienta a los estudiantes para mejorar los procesos de aprendizaje gracias a las herramientas sociales. Microsoft asegura que ha sido diseñada para los estudiantes que podrán r...

Travelling alone on an aircraft can be a lottery. But now the Dutch airline, KLM, is offering passengers the chance to pick who they sit next to by using Facebook and LinkedIn profiles.

The Dutch airline is set to offer passengers the chance to look at each other's Facebook and Linkedin profiles to help them choose who they would like to sit next to on their flight.

Digg et autres Reddit avaient ouvert la brèche, Facebook en a fait un boulevard et aujourd'hui presque chaque média social - de LinkedIn à Foursquare - a son bouton de partage. D'un clic, ils permettent de propulser un contenu sur...

Sucking up on Facebook and LinkedIn can help you climb that greasy pole – but what exactly are the rules?

Groupon, LinkedIn and Pandora Media. What is common between the three? All three were tech companies which debuted for the IPOs and what they saw in common was the fall of their shares after their first days' close.

LinkedIn dopped 4.4% on Friday after a flood of new shares for the company hit the market this week.

El precio de la acción de LinkedIn Corp. llegó a subir el jueves hasta un 7,2%, incluso después que la compañía añadiera más acciones al mercado, a medida que los inversionistas parecen seguir interesados en comprar la compañía de redes sociales pese a las preocupaciones sobre la valuación de sus títulos.

Congress may not want to hear from opponents of the Stop Online Piracy Act at today's hearing, but that hasn't stopped a broad coalition of (often fierce) competitors representing the Internet's giants from placing an ad in today's NYT, signed by Google, Facebook, Mozilla, Zynga, eBay, Twitter, Yahoo, LinkedIn, and AOL. We support the bills’ [...]

Le réseau social professionnel LinkedIn, a annoncé mardi que lui et ses...

LinkedIn Corporation said Tuesday it had opened a research and development centre in India, the US-based professional online networking site's first such office outside North America.

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- LinkedIn Corp.'s employees and early backers plan to sell more than 6.7 million shares as they try to reap the gains from a rapid run-up in the online professional networking service's market value....

Das Businessnetzwerk kann sich derzeit über satte Kursgewinne freuen. Doch US-Konkurrent Linkedin rüstet auf.