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Banjo brings friends on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Instagram together,...
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,...
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Highly-paid, well-educated, and employed people use Twitter for constant,...
It’s a bit of a nightmare scenario for a company. Its best, most educated, and highest-paid staff are continually trolling on Twitter for a new job. They’re not actively looking for a better job, just...
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LinkedIn hatches its own [in]cubator to develop great ideas
LinkedIn is catering to the entrepreneurially minded people on its team with a new program designed to advance great ideas they dream up in the workplace. Appropriately called [in]cubator, the program...
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Now Facebook is competing with everyone in local search, including Apple and...
Facebook announced “Graph Search” today, a new way of finding and interacting with friends and people on Facebook. The new search feature will be interesting for people who just want to find out...
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Survey: Facebook is the most stress-inducing social media site (and,...
Facebook causes Americans more stress than any other social network. But it’s also the network with the most positive effect on our moods. Leading VOIP and cheap call provider Rebtel asked 1,632...
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Facebook’s Sheryl Sandberg, CEO of LinkedIn? Almost
Facebook’s chief operating officer was almost LinkedIn’s chief executive officer. Sheryl Sandberg’s new book Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead has a lot of advice for working women, which...
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LinkedIn smashes Q4 expectations after a year of ‘accelerated product...
LinkedIn has surpassed Wall Street’s expectations yet again with its stellar fourth quarter. The company just reported revenue at $303.6 million, an increase of 81 percent from the fourth quarter of...
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This ‘LinkedIn for emergencies’ startup is on track for 2.5M users
An emergency contact network might not, at first glance, seem the kind of idea you’d see from a venture capital-funded startup. But it’s the sort of concept that has the potential to grow huge. And...
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Twitter joins Facebook, LinkedIn in using DMARC email authentication (too...
Just days after two prominent Twitter accounts were somewhat hilariously hacked, Twitter announced it has adopted a new technology for making emails from the newsy social network harder to fake. It’s...
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Indeed.com reaches 100M monthly visitors, handles half of all U.S. job search...
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. The find-jobs-anywhere site has now reached 100...
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Ed-tech startups: Imagine K12 bumps up its accelerator funding to $100K
Ed-tech accelerator Imagine K12 announced that it will increase its initial funding for startups from $20,000 to $100,000. This additional funding is available from the newly established “Start Fund,”...
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2M Facebook fans better than Super Bowl ad, celeb endorsement … or Twitter...
Small business owners would rather have two million engaged Facebook fans than a Beyoncé endorsement, a Super Bowl ad … or two million Twitter followers. Well, duh. Facebook fans are the holy grail of...
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Twitter users: Do you want a LinkedIn-style who-viewed-your-profile feature?
Twitter CEO Dick Costolo said yesterday that company engineers can roll out any experimental features they’re testing to one percent of the social network’s users. For about half an hour today, it...
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LinkedIn DNS hijacked, traffic rerouted for an hour, and users’ cookies read...
App.net cofounder Bryan Berg noticed that LinkedIn was DNS-hijacked tonight and that traffic was rerouted to a shady India-based site, http://www.confluence-networks.com. That’s bad for LinkedIn, but...
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Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft ask President Obama for more PRISM...
A coalition of some of the world’s biggest tech firms have banded together to send an open letter to President Obama and the U.S. Congress asking for transparency on the NSA’s surveillance programs,...
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68% of CEOs have ‘no presence’ on any social media (but they like LinkedIn)
nan palmeroWho says you can’t teach an old dog new tricks, Warren Buffet joked after he sent his very first tweet in May 2013. Since then he’s gained 541,905 followers with just two lonely little...
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The top 15 American cities for social media jobs (study)
kdonovangaddySure, San Francisco is one of the top American cities for social media jobs. And New York is hot for Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest, Instagram, and LinkedIn marketers. But some of the cities...
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LinkedIn CEO: We’re aiming for 3B profiles and a map of the world’s economy
Jolie O'Dell/VentureBeatSAN FRANCISCO — Today, LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner spoke about his company’s future, and his vision is absolutely huge in the scope of its ambition. “Our longer-term vision is … to...
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Buffer hits 1M users, 88M posts, and $2M in annual revenue
Exit Festival Dec. 4 - 5, 2013 Redwood City, CA Tickets on Sale Now Social optimization service Buffer, which optimizes the time of your Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Google+ postings for maximum...
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LinkedIn ‘sponsored jobs’ will now show up in your homepage feed
nan palmero Dec. 4 - 5, 2013 Redwood City, CA Tickets on Sale Now Sponsored Jobs on LinkedIn just got a little more valuable. The company announced today that these paid-for job listings will now be...
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