Posts Tagged ‘LinkedIn’

Arvind Rajan, head of LinkedIn’s Asia operations, told ABC News that Japan is key market for the company because of its technologically sophisticated work force. LinkedIn hopes that the lessons learned in Japan will ultimately translate into new offerings for the rest of the world.

comScore, an Internet market research firm, released information from data about mobile social media usage changes during the period of August 2010 to August 2011. comScore’s data, if accurate provides interesting insights into our mobile social activities. Note that comScore does not differentiate between social network sites like Facebook and conventional blog sites for some [...]

SmartBear Software company released its standard quarterly report for overall Web Performance for Social Networks. The company ranked each social media site by its speed and availability in the third quarter of 2011. By speed means how fast the platform loads on the Internet, and by availability means maintaining its presence on the Internet without crashing.

This morning a hilarious short film is making the rounds on Facebook that takes a look at just how ridiculous social networking in the workplace (and in the rest of our lives for that matter) has become.

PC World ran an informal test of how well question-and-answer sites handle a business question. The outcome is an interesting review on which Q&A site came up with the best answer.

Professional social network LinkedIn has purchased IndexTank, a company that provides search technology for websites and Web services.

LinkedIn is about to get a whole whack of very valuable data.  The network, with over 100 million professional users, is giving those users the ability to follow and like their favorite companies, just like Twitter users follow and retweet their favorite celebrities.  The difference is that LinkedIn is full of this generation’s technology leaders, [...]

There’s one company NOBODY wants to work for

The infographic also points out the top industries on LinkedIn are higher education, marketing and advertising, information technology and health care.

According to the WSJ, the President will take questions from a live audience and from LinkedIn members who submit questions through a LinkedIn group, “Putting America Back to Work.”