The office of the future: Flexible hours, naps, and no fax machines (infographic)

The next five years are set to bring a lot of big changes to the way office workers do business.

Eight ways to save your tweets

The handy utility If This Then That (IFTTT) recently announced the end of its Twitter integration. Fortunately, there are workaround.

Meritful wants to be the LinkedIn of high school

Students are using Facebook and Twitter all the time, but for most, it's hardly something they'd like future employers -- or college admission counselors -- to seem. That's a problem that will soon be in the rear-view mirror, if new startup Meritful is successful.

Crunchfund founder quizzes Reid Hoffman about what it’s like to be ‘ridiculously wealthy’

Reid Hoffman says that when he visits a university to give an entrepreneurship lecture now, he gets asked for money.

LinkedIn adds notifications for comments, likes, invitations, & more

Professional social network LinkedIn has added real-time notifications to let you know when people comment or like a post, send an invitation to connect, and more, the company announced today.

LinkedIn profiles are finally getting a redesign. Here’s our first look

What can one say but "Hallelujah." Your LinkedIn profile is finally getting a long-overdue facelift. And this ain't no flimsy nip and tuck, either.

LinkedIn makes a push for more content with new developer tools

LinkedIn has released upgraded developer tools to stimulate application development and supply its service with enough content to keep members continually engaged on its web and mobile platforms.

LinkedIn grew revenue 89 percent to $228.2M in Q2

Ever the professional, LinkedIn again proved to Wall Street that it can deliver on promises. The social network for workers came in fairly strong with its second quarter earnings report and posted $228.2 million in revenue, which was higher than …

Zynga insiders cashed in $516M of stock — three months before the stock cratered

Zynga insiders, including chief executive Marc Pincus, cashed out in April, selling 43 million shares for over $516 million -- just before the stock price cratered.

Travel deals site Kayak entering Russia just prior to IPO?

[ updated July 20 with a confirmation from a competitor - see bottom for more details ]

Ahh, LinkedIn we love you.

People can never seem to wait with their profile updates until the public announcement is out. At least, …

Reachable: 100 billion connections means someone you need to meet knows someone you know

It’s really, really hard to sell to Joe Blow.

Joe, who knows my former boss Frank, on the other hand … that’s an entirely different matter. That is the premise behind Reachable, a social connection tool for business-to-business sales professionals, …

LinkedIn finally shakes the ugly off its homepage, here’s the redesign

LinkedIn has unveiled a pretty new homepage today. The redesign strips away all the clutter, leaving you with news from your network and a chronological and algorithmically weighted stream of updates from your professional contacts.

In short, it’s looking a …

Weaker Q2 tech earnings could make investors jittery

Earnings season starts this week for tech companies, and no one is expecting outstanding second-quarter results. If the reports turn out to be weaker than expected, then tech investors might run for the hills, the San Jose Mercury News reported.…

LinkedIn may have picked up key Digg patents for $4M prior to its acquisition (update)

While community news sharing site Digg may have sold for the low price of $500,000, its other assets may have fetched a bit more.

Professional social network Linkedin is said to have purchased some key patents from Digg just prior …

LinkedIn: Twitter won’t share, so use LinkedIn to tweet instead

Twitter and LinkedIn have had a very public falling out.

Twitter posted earlier today about “delivering a consistent Twitter experience,” which basically meant, as Owen Thomas at Business Insider noted, they were taking their ball and going home. The impact …

5 more tech deals that need to happen

Earlier this month, Microsoft made the deal of the year when it agreed to purchase enterprise social networking service Yammer. Meanwhile, the IPO market is dead after Facebook’s much-discussed botched issuance and subsequent valuation slide. Suddenly, going public is out, …

Round three of our MobileBeat 2012 speakers

We’re a few weeks away from MobileBeat 2012, VentureBeat’s annual mobile conference, where we’ve lined up some of the biggest names in the industry to delve into the event’s core theme: “Design is the new battleground.”

We’ve snagged Ajay Chopra, …

LinkedIn accused of cutting corners in protecting user data

LinkedIn is being sued for a password hack that resulted in millions of passwords being stolen from the business social network and appearing on a Russian forum.

The class action lawsuit comes from a premium (or paying) LinkedIn user Katie …