Linkedin News

LinkedIn Targets HR With Profile Bookmarking

5th October 2009

Social networking site LinkedIn has been very useful for professionals to interact with each other and also to help companies to recruit staff for a variety of jobs. More »

LinkedIn Users Richer, More Influential

11th November 2008

In September 2008, Anderson Analytics conducted a study, on the profiles of LinkedIn users. The results reveal that on an average, users of LinkedIn are richer than the average users of other social sites such as Facebook and MySpace. More »

Social Media Activity Costing Businesses

30th October 2008

Studies conducted over the last four years have shown that the usage of social media sites at the workplace has been steadily increasing. Unfortunately the use of these applications has been causing a lot of avoidable expenditure to companies. More »

LinkedIn Launches Service For Advertisers

28th October 2008

LinkedIn launched a new service called LinkedIn Surveys last month, which will conduct surveys to help advertisers, reach their target audience. The target audience being professionals and decision makers such as executives and IT experts, who are members of this social network. More »

Microsoft Opens Messenger Friends To Social Networks

1st April 2008

Microsoft announced last week that it has partnered with the most popular social networks including Bebo, Hi5, Facebook, LinkedIn and Tagged to allow its users to easily move contacts in both directions, while protecting the user’s privacy. More »

News Corp May Acquire LinkedIn

29th November 2007

A post on the popular TechCrunch UK blog indicated that a possible takeover of the fast growing social network, LinkedIn, by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp may be in the pipeline. More »

Google To Launch Social Network Developer Tool On Thursday

31st October 2007

TechCrunch today report on Google’s plans to launch a new project called OpenSocial, which will provide developers a set of Application Programme Interfaces (APIs) to build social networking applications that will work on any participating social network. More »