Facebook fans are the holy grail of small business, according to a recent study by Staples.
The new ed-tech fund is supported by LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner and Y Combinator founder Paul Graham, among others.
Job-finding and recruiting sites are hotter than heat, but no-one's hotter than the relatively ancient old man on the block: 8-year-old Indeed.com.
Jeep's Twitter account recently told the world that the iconic brand had been "sold to Cadillac." And Burger King's account started mysteriously promoting McDonalds. Two high-profile hacks in less than a week means, apparently, that Twitter had to take some action.
"The vast majority of organizations put their emergency information on paper," Summers says. "This is an opportunity to leverage networking technology for safety."
LinkedIn has surpassed Wall Street's expectations yet again with its stellar fourth quarter.
Current Facebook chief operating officer and former Google VP Cheryl Sandberg was almost LinkedIn's chief executive officer. Almost.
Facebook causes Americans more stress than any other social network. But it's also the network with the most positive effect on our moods.
What it's really going to do is open up the vast hoard of Facebook data and eat the lunch of a thousand large and small companies that make money by aggregating and rating what people do and where they go.
LinkedIn is catering to the entrepreneurially minded people on its team with a new program designed to advance great ideas dreamt up in the workplace.
A company's best, most educated, and highest-paid staff are continually trolling on Twitter for a better job. They're not actively looking for a new job, just keeping an ear to the ground in case one comes up.
Editor's Pick Most new social-local apps are a bore, frankly. But most don't have a CEO who did a couple of tours of duty in Desert Storm, was a chief mechanic for a NASCAR team, and then, after selling a startup, went back to study at MIT.
It took LinkedIn nine years to reach 187 million members. It took the professional social network about a month to pass 200 million endorsements.
Professional social network LinkedIn handily exceeded Wall Street’s expectations with its third quarter 2012 earnings report.
The nine-year-old company made $252 million in revenue, $2.3 million in net income, and posted Non-GAAP diluted earnings per share of $0.22 for the …
90 percent of small businesses are Facebook, and 70 percent are on Twitter. LinkedIn, Google+, and Pinterest? Not so much.
Is it best to share on Tuesday or Thursday? Does it matter if your tweet is 15 words or 25? And does using a question mark really reduce your chances of viral growth?
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.
If you ever wanted to know the age and sex of social media users on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Tumblr, Reddit, Hacker News, Slashdot, Github, Stack Overflow, Orkut, Quora, WordPress.com, Blogger, Flickr, Myspace, Tagged, Hi5, LiveJournal, Yelp, deviantART, StumbleUpon, Goodreads and Last.fm -- you're in luck.
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.
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 …
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