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LinkedIn taking a wrong turn on the way to revenue?
Blog The business pages have been full in the past week of the news from business-biased social network LinkedIn that it has just raised $53million in a fourth funding round led by Bain Capital. The $1 billion value it puts on the company is obviously...
[June 24, 2008, 9:51]
LinkedIn invites users to develop apps
News Professional social-networking site LinkedIn is to open up its network and let third parties build applications for use within its community. But, unlike Facebook, LinkedIn's Intelligent Application Platform will also allow companies to add...
[December 11, 2007, 15:58]
Twitter, LinkedIn announce tie-up
News A new partnership has been announced between Twitter and LinkedIn. The two companies explained on Monday that LinkedIn status messages can now sync with Twitter. The business-use case of Twitter is turning out to be very important, and more and...
[November 10, 2009, 8:20]
LinkedIn about to be acquired?
Blog Rumours are circulating that business-focused social networking site LinkedIn could, once again, be an acquisition target. Several months after the last set of rumours died out, Eric Eldon and Matt Marshall at VentureBeat (http://venturebeat.com...
[May 13, 2008, 17:43]
LinkedIn taking a wrong turn on the way to revenue?
Blog Comment Hi Ian: We’re received an email from LinkedIn responding to a couple of things here. LinkedIn's revenue model has four revenue channels: advertising, corporate sales, premium memberships and job postings.
[July 18, 2008, 17:43]
Twitter spambots, LinkedIn’s phony friends & Skype smut
Blog I only ask because I had a delightfully polite email from a certain Hayley Pinkerfield who is deputy features editor of Media Week after LinkedIn suggested that we’d recently viewed each other’s details.
[September 1, 2009, 8:28]
Twitter spambots, LinkedIn’s phony friends & Skype smut
Blog Comment A friend of mine recently accidentally triggered off a flood of LinkedIn invitation requests that went out to everybody he had in ALL of his address books he had collected over 10 years. That email address book mechanism in LinkedIn looks...
[September 2, 2009, 9:24]
LinkedIn’s new apps all work, but don’t work
Blog Comment I'm using both the SlideShare and Wordpress LinkedIn applications.both work as exected.since I already used SlideShare I have to admit that made me very happy :) Hopefully the other apps come up to speed soon.
[November 2, 2008, 19:57]
LinkedIn and the one way street on social graph portability
Blog Has a "cease and desist" notice to a niche social network inadvertently revealed LinkedIn's hand regarding the Social Web and contact portability? I am not one to wash my dirty linen in public, but my company has been on the receiving end of a...
[April 2, 2009, 14:02]
LinkedIn lays off tenth of workforce
News Business-focused social-networking site LinkedIn announced on Wednesday that it is cutting 10 percent of its workforce, or about 36 jobs, as part of a restructuring to focus on its revenue-producing businesses.
[November 6, 2008, 10:15]
LinkedIn raises funding to expand
News Business networking site LinkedIn has secured $12.8m (£6.5m) in venture capital funding, leading to speculation that it may go public. The funding is for a couple of things: to give us some flexibility in terms of product innovation, but also to...
[January 30, 2007, 11:10]
LinkedIn secures further $22.7m investment
News LinkedIn announced on Wednesday that it has raised an additional $22.7m (£14m) in funding, giving the business-networking site a little cushion in difficult economic times. The strategic investment, from Goldman Sachs, SAP and McGraw-Hill, as well...
[October 23, 2008, 10:44]
LinkedIn gets a mobile makeover
News Business network LinkedIn is getting a makeover to offer an improved service to its almost 20 million users and make it available on BlackBerry devices, iPhones, PDAs and mobile phones. The new version of the site — currently in beta testing — will...
[February 25, 2008, 8:22]
Developers invited into LinkedIn
News LinkedIn's platform, previously a closed offering for select partners, has opened up to developers at large, according to an announcement Monday on the professional networking company's blog. Building an embeddable widget for LinkedIn, unlike for...
[November 24, 2009, 14:15]
European LinkedIn rival XING triples its earnings
Blog XING AG, professional network LinkedIn's strongest rival in Europe, has reported its half year results and they show phenomenal growth -- great news for business focused social networks in the current economic gloom.
[July 23, 2008, 14:53]
Viadeo and LinkedIn add new members, features
Blog French social network for business Viadeo has announced its acquisition of Spain's IctNet in an attempt to increase its international reach and close the gap on leader LinkedIn and rival European site Xing.
[July 9, 2008, 9:37]
Downloads LinkedIn for the iPhone allows you to leverage the power of your professional network on the go. Get the latest updates from your network, quickly find needed contact information with improved search, learn more about the person you're about...
[August 20, 2008, 8:00]
LinkedIn taking a wrong turn on the way to revenue?
Blog Comment Functionality specifically within the networking sites has still not matured to a level where users can engage them on a more regular basis, hence the LinkedIn foray into more diverse areas such as the potential entertainment hook up as a way of...
[June 26, 2008, 14:06]
European LinkedIn rival XING triples its earnings
Blog Comment Here are some of LinkedIn's company blogs on people who are using the site beyond the job space: FIlmmakers http://blog.linkedin.com/blog/2008/06/linkedin-discov.html Small business http://blog.linkedin.com/blog/2008/04/linkedin-user-1.html
[July 24, 2008, 18:48]
