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Zynga IPO mints a new multi-billionaire: Mark Pincus
Zynga founder Mark Pincus (pictured far left) will benefit the most from his company’s planned initial public offering, according to Zynga’s SEC filing. The company, the creator of massively popular...
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Your users have multiple online personas — can they all log in to your site?
Patrick Salyer is CEO of Gigya, which makes sites social through plugins like Social Login, Comments, Activity Feeds, Social Analytics and Game Mechanics. You can follow him on Twitter @patricksalyer....
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Scratch my back? Website launches as a marketplace for professional favors
Congratulations, you’ve just made a new network connection on LinkedIn. Now what? Sure, you can celebrate the expansion of your professional network with a little fist-pump, but are you really getting...
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LinkedIn grows revenues faster than Apple and Facebook (infographic)
Which celebrated technology company is growing revenue at a higher rate than all the rest? Hint: it’s not Apple or Facebook, as you might expect. LinkedIn, the professional social networking company...
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Biologic offers strangest way yet to browse social networks on iPad
Bored with the mundane, linear way of reading status updates? Fire up the iPad and load Biologic, a brand new app for browsing social network feeds. Biologic, which comes from the creative minds at...
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LinkedIn challenger Viadeo raises $32M to take over China
Dan Serfaty, CEO Viadeo Proving that second place doesn’t always equate to being the first loser, the world’s number two social network for professionals, Viadeo, (LinkedIn is number one), is getting...
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LinkedIn delivers, Q1 revenue up 101% to $188.5M
Expectations were astronomically high for LinkedIn’s first quarter 2012 earnings, and the professional social network more than delivered with $188.5 million in revenue and net income of $5 million....
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Dressed in Metro, LinkedIn looks good on Windows Phone (screenshots)
Good news, Windows Phone owners. Professional social network LinkedIn, in its quest to master mobile, has released another stunning mobile application — but this one is just for you. The application,...
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Was YOUR LinkedIn password hacked? Here’s how to find out
I don’t know about you, but the first thing I did after learning about the massive LinkedIn password hack was go to LinkedIn and change my password. The second thing I did was wonder if mine was...
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VBWeekly: Airtime, leaked LinkedIn passwords, and SpaceX
This week the VBWeekly crew discusses the new social-chatting service Airtime, leaked passwords from a LinkedIn hack (check out our tips for changing your passwords), and SpaceX — the first all-private...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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LinkedIn makes a push for more content with new developer tools
Fresh off a stellar second quarter earnings report, the professional social network LinkedIn has today released new developer tools and resources in an effort to stimulate application development and...
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Social media demographics 2012: 24 sites including Twitter, Facebook, and...
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,...
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Meritful wants to be the LinkedIn of high school
DETROIT — 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 see. That’s a problem that will...
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Why you should never, ever use a question mark on Twitter or LinkedIn...
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? Content marketing company...
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Small business loves Facebook and Twitter, ignores LinkedIn, Google+, and...
90 percent of small businesses are on Facebook, and 70 percent are on Twitter. LinkedIn, Google+, and Pinterest? Not so much. Marketing software company VerticalResponse surveyed almost 500 small...
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LinkedIn’s stock jumps on news of stellar quarter
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...
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LinkedIn’s one-click endorsements are crazy popular
It took LinkedIn nine years to reach 187 million members. It took the professional social network about one month to pass 200 million endorsements. Endorsements are LinkedIn’s lightweight version of...
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