Why breaking up is hard to do … for social apps like Facebook, Foursquare,...
Volume Up is a regular column on consumer technology and digital ecosystems by Reticle Research principal analyst Ross Rubin. With sophisticated mobile operating systems came the promise of...
View ArticleLinkedIn knows what you did last summer. It might know if that internship...
Image Credit: A Name Like Shields Can Make You Defensive/FlickrEvery fall, university career centers are packed with students seeking advice about how to score internships. But LinkedIn might give you...
View ArticleLinkedIn: These 3 graphs show that successful founders don’t drop out, and...
Image Credit: Flickr user Sean MacEnteeLinkedIn released a bold and fascinating report about the career paths of successful tech founders. The public company made a refreshingly opinionated conclusion:...
View ArticleOne year on, CEOs still not getting social
Image Credit: PixabayThe 2014 CEO.com Social CEO Report, an annual survey that investigates the social media habits of business leaders, has been released. The results show a depressingly small...
View ArticleHere’s what you can earn at the 20 top tech companies
Image Credit: David Crow/FlickrWhile there’s debate over whether there’s a shortage of qualified tech workers, there’s one thing no one argues about: Tech companies pay their employees well. We’ve...
View ArticleLinkedIn’s latest update adds Pulse news integration and a revamped design
Image Credit: PulsePulse, the news reader service LinkedIn acquired last year, is now getting integrated more closely into the professional social network, the company announced today. Unlike many...
View ArticleLinkedin re-ranked colleges by where graduates get the best jobs
When colleges are re-ranked by how graduates do in the job market, only a few of the conventionally prestigious schools make the top of the list. LinkedIn mined its massive dataset of professionals to...
View ArticleLinkedIn offers researchers $25K for ways to change the world with its data
Image Credit: TAKA@P.P.R.S./FlickrLinkedIn has become the latest social network to solicit ideas from researchers to explore the company’s data. Under the rules of the new LinkedIn Economic Graph...
View ArticleLinkedIn had one of the first data science teams. Now it’s breaking up the band
Above: LinkedIn headquarters in Mountain View, Calif.Image Credit: Jordan Novet/VentureBeatMOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — LinkedIn has divvied up its respected data science team, which created features like...
View ArticleWhy LinkedIn’s Chris Saccheri Quit His Powerful Job To Be A Stay-At-Home Dad
Above: Chris SaccheriImage Credit: Business InsiderChris Saccheri had a great job running the web development team at LinkedIn. There was only one problem: He wanted to spend more time with his kids....
View ArticleWhy LinkedIn’s data science reorg actually makes a lot of sense
Above: LinkedIn employees work at the company's Mountain View, Calif., headquarters.Image Credit: Jordan Novet/VentureBeatMOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Yes, it’s true that some data scientists have left...
View ArticleLinkedIn’s first investment is data-infrastructure startup Confluent
Above: Inside LinkedIn headquarters in Mountain View, Calif.Image Credit: Jordan Novet/VentureBeatBusiness-oriented social networking company LinkedIn has entered the venture funding world, backing a...
View ArticleImproving tech education doesn’t start with tech
GUEST: Automation is stripping away jobs from entire industries in the United States — and the pace of job loss is accelerating. Whole segments of the population are forced to work harder for less...
View ArticleLinkedIn acquires Glint to help users track employee engagement
With nearly 600 million users, LinkedIn wants to give its enterprise-level customers a way to see how satisfied employees are.Read More
View ArticleLinkedIn launches Talent Hub to recruit applicants with predictive insights
LinkedIn highlighted a suite of tools during its Talent Connect conference: Talent Hub, an updated Recruiter platform, and Skills Insights.Read More
View ArticleChicago’s G2 Crowd, a Yelp for business software, raises $55 million (updated)
IVP, Accel, and LinkedIn have all invested in G2 Crowd, the peer review site cofounded by an enterprise software entrepreneur.Read More
View ArticleMicrosoft-backed Skillful starts Indiana program to coach businesses, job...
Skillful aims to help people without a four-year college degree find good jobs in the digital economy, with help from Microsoft, LinkedIn, and Walmart.Read More
View ArticleHeartland Tech Weekly: How can Silicon Valley best assist other startup...
LinkedIn cofounder Reid Hoffman says he wants to see more people in Silicon Valley helping out places like Detroit and New Orleans. But how?Read More
View ArticleLinkedIn begins testing events tool in New York and San Francisco
LinkedIn plans to roll out an events tool globally within the next few months, as it seeks to become a destination for both offline and online networking.Read More
View ArticleRural Innovation Initiative aims to help small towns get funding for remote...
The Rural Innovation Initiative, led by a former Google executive, will help small towns develop a strategy for attracting more remote and digital jobs.Read More
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