Microsoft has stirred up a swirling buzz of discussion around the Linkedin acquisition for $26.2 billion. There are a number of angles…
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LinkedIn expands Lynda.com to Roku with new learning channel
LinkedIn is expanding its Lynda.com platform to Roku devices, and in doing so it might prove streaming video services can be more than…
Read MoreFor tech companies, tis the season for cleaning house & killing apps
Now is the winter of tech companies’ discontent. By that I mean December is fast becoming the time of the year for tech…
Read MoreLinkedIn puts Slack in its crosshairs with updated messaging platform
LinkedIn is either suffering a mid-life crisis or experiencing a renaissance. The company has traditionally focused on helping workers further their careers by…
Read MoreThe platform-publisher race is heating up and LinkedIn is gaining
Social platforms like Facebook and Snapchat are trying hard to become publishers or to host content from media companies, but one of the platforms that has been quietly doing this for years now -- and continues to grow that side of its business -- is LinkedIn…
Read MoreFacebook wants you to take its social network to the office
The Financial Times reported that Facebook is building a suitable-for-work version of its popular social network. Which begs the question: Do we really want to use Facebook for work?…
Read MoreThe team that created Kafka is leaving LinkedIn to build a company around it
A trio of LinkedIn engineers, led by Jay Kreps, is taking the Apache Kafka technology they helped create commercial. Their new company, called Confluent, wants to enable real-time data processing in all sorts of companies, and is backed by Benchmark, LinkedIn and Data Collective.…
Read MoreJudge calls out LinkedIn over spammy invitations, says emails can harm reputation
One of LinkedIn's more annoying features -- multiple requests to join its "professional network" -- was slammed by a federal judge this week in a class action ruling.…
Read MoreScott Croyle, HTC’s head of design, is leaving the company
After designing the HTC One M8, the senior VP is amicably parting ways with the company after he finishes "current projects".…
Read MoreLinkedIn names company that used bots to steal profiles for competing Recruiter service
A start-up that sells $799 subscriptions to recruiters is stocking its database with profiles that it obtained from LinkedIn by using an army of bots.…
Read MoreLinkedIn warns company over “Hack In” tool that shows email addresses
LinkedIn says it will take legal action against a site that lets anyone "Hack In" to find users' email addresses. That's good news, but also raises the question of why its possible to "hack in" in the first place.…
Read MoreData is the customer’s voice, so you need to pay attention to it in as many ways as possible
Uber, LinkedIn and Airbnb take different approaches to integrating data into their businesses, but they all agree that data is a crucial signal of whether their products and services are serving customers effectively or not.…
Read MoreLinkedIn has the one thing other publishing platforms would kill for
LinkedIn, which just opened up its publishing platform to anyone for free, has one big strength that most of its traditional publishing competitors don't have, and that should be keeping them awake at night -- if they aren't already…
Read MoreAs the line between platform and publisher continues to blur, who wins and who loses?
The term "platishers" is a terrible one, but Jonathan Glick of Sulia has a point about the increasingly blurred lines between platforms and publishers. The real question is what the duties of those platforms are towards the users who create most of the content…
Read MoreLinkedIn sues to stop bots that are stealing its user profiles
LinkedIn says unknown people have been creating a wave of fake profiles in order to scrape the profiles of hundreds of thousands of users, and offer a competing recruiting product. Here's the complaint and some details.…
Read MoreGood news, bad news: LinkedIn data in iOS Mail arrives but it can read your mail
Want to see more information about an email sender in iOS Mail before you even read the message? That's what LinkedIn Intro provides. However, to make the magic happen, you need to have all of your email routed through a LinkedIn server.…
Read MoreLinkedin announces Intro, a professional introduction email plug-in for iPhone
Linkedin has debuted a new feature for iPhone that allows users to see each other's professional profile without leaving their email.…
Read MoreIn which Adam Lashinsky of Fortune misunderstands both paywalls and social media
Fortune editor Adam Lashinsky's response to readers -- who were upset about a LinkedIn post he wrote pointing to a paywalled article -- shows a lack of understanding of both paywalls and how to use social platforms.…
Read MoreTech firms’ release of PRISM data will harm security — new U.S. and FBI court filings
The FBI and the US government say Google, Microsoft and other tech firms have no free speech right to declare how many data demands they receive under a controversial Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act legal process.…
Read MoreLinkedIn plans “block” feature to screen unwanted visitors
LinkedIn is facing a spate of negative publicity over perceptions that its connection tools are intrusive; the site says it will respond with a "block" tool at some point in the future.…
Read MoreLinkedIn is “breaking into” user emails, spamming contacts – lawsuit
Are you finding your in-box flooded with LinkedIn requests? That may be because some people are sending out the invitations against their will, according to a lawsuit that accuses the site of hacking users' email programs.…
Read MoreWhen data lakes become landfills: how to avoid drowning in surplus information
All sorts of firms today are storing data in the belief that they will be able to leverage it in powerful ways. But, if they don't know what they're doing, the data lakes can turn into landfills.…
Read MoreLinkedIn open sources stream-processing engine Samza, its take on Storm
Samza is LinkedIn's take on Twitter's Storm engine for stream processing, only built on top of LinkedIn's own Kafka messaging system. It's the latest in a growing line of open source efforts from LinkedIn, and another notch in the belt for Hadoop.…
Read MoreWhat will CRM look like in 2015?
As we become accustomed to a real-time, data rich world the existing enterprise applications have to adapt -- including customer relationship management software. Here are some thoughts on making it better.…
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