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How LinkedIn wants to be cooler than Facebook

Mar 12, 2013
How the unglamorous social network is quietly evolving into a content provider. LinkedIn is reportedly in talks to buy the news reading app Pulse.

Facebook tests new paid messaging

Dec 21, 2012
Facebook started testing a new feature yesterday. For a dollar, a stranger can send you a message that’ll land in your directly in your inbox.

How to outsmart a password hacker

Jun 8, 2012
Following the theft of 6.5 million passwords from LinkedIn along with hacks at the dating site eHarmony and the music site Last.FM, we get advice from an industry insider on how to protect yourself -- tell a lie.

The LinkedIn hack: What you need to do about it

Jun 7, 2012
And are we just stuck with the current problematic password system forever? Yes. Yes, we are.

Extra! Extra!

Oct 17, 2011
Four new print magazines, each focusing on a different social media outlet (Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, and Google), will go on sale at local...

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Security flaws at LinkedIn

May 23, 2011
Security flaws will eventually get around to everyone: Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Sizzler, Play-Doh, your grandma, Jupiter. This time up it's...

Peter and Deborah are ruling corporate America

Apr 28, 2011
That's the conclusion of a newly released study by LinkedIn that explores the first names most associated with certain professions. It's the kind...

LinkedIn blocked in China

Feb 25, 2011
Really, China? Blocking the most square and businesslike social networking site in the world? The official social networking site of everyone's dad...