LinkedIn has been making some significant moves towards becoming a media entity focused on business news, and the launch of new magazine-style channels of content is just the latest example of this. Read more »
When was the last time you logged into LinkedIn’s mobile app as a way of browsing the news or killing time? You might not have given the app much thought before, but the company’s recent push toward news might change this. Read more at GigaOM »
The media elite increasingly belongs to digital only entities. Look under the hood of some of these new power brokers, and you’ll see an unprecedented amount of ordinary people shaping the news. Read more »
If LinkedIn were to buy the Pulse news-recommendation app — something a number of reports say could be in the works — it would give the corporate social network a powerful way of filtering content for its users. Read more »
Career networking site LinkedIn is reportedly buying news aggregation app Pulse. The move comes at a time when LinkedIn is attempting to expand its content offerings. Read more at GigaOM »
Are new blogging platforms like Medium, Quora, Svbtle and LinkedIn’s Influencers program an attempt to recreate the bad old days of “content farms?” Not really — their focus is much more on quality content than on direct monetization. Read more »
Looking for a new platform for blogging, and finding that existing sites aren’t sufficient? You might check out Quora’s new blogging platform, which it plans to release Wednesday, that will allow users to create posts on the site and share information. Read more »
New research from the Pew Center into news consumption habits shows that the impact of mobile and social continues to grow. Almost twice as many users got news from a mobile device compared with 2010, and almost three times as many got news from a social network. Read more at GigaOM »
Patent troll suits — in which shell companies that don’t make anything sue those that do — are proliferating. The latest example may include a shell firm suing Facebook and others for using banner ads. Read more at GigaOM »
LinkedIn will get to connect with a federal judges after an embarrasing security breach in early June. The social network for professionals has been hit with a class action seeking at least $5 million over an incident that exposed millions of passwords. Read more at GigaOM »
Every week the media seems to offer a new account of some dumb crook who is off to the slammer because he posted about his caper on Facebook. It turns out this phenomenon may be even more widespread than we think. Read more »
Digital influence is one of the hottest trends in social media and it is also one of the least understood. Like some relationships on Facebo… Read more »
A sprawling lawsuit filed in Texas this week targets Path, Instagram, Facebook and others for instructing their apps to suck up user address… Read more »
It remains to be seen whether all social networks can be profitable on advertising alone — and crucially what formats will work best alongs… Read more »
Sony (NYSE: SNE) Ericsson (NSDQ: ERIC), as it winds up as a troubled joint venture to become fully part of Sony, is spinning out some talent… Read more »
The long-awaited IPO of social games giant Zynga has finally arrived, but those hoping for quick, early flips of the stock may end up having… Read more »
A California man claimed that LinkedIn (NYSE: LNKD) “humiliated” him by sharing his Internet browsing history with marketers. In a big win f… Read more »
The continuing migration of audiences and ad dollars to digital has helped serve as a balm against growing economic fears that have resulted… Read more »
Now that it’s a public company, it’s probably time to take that mobile thing seriously. LinkedIn (NYSE: LNKD) has rolled out fresh new mobil… Read more »
» If the current events of the world are scary for all of us, they’re particularly horrifying for news publishers. (Ken Doctor/Ni… Read more »
The stock market may be suffering its worst one-day slide since 2008, but you wouldn’t know it by looking at LinkedIn’s second-quarter earni… Read more »
Klout score is not yet an easily recognizable metric compared to, say, one’s number of Twitter followers or Facebook friends. But the compan… Read more »
DataSift, a UK startup that aggregates and analyses data from social media sites like Twitter, has picked up $6 million in a first round of… Read more »
Venture capitalists poured $2.23 billion into hot social media companies in the second quarter of 2011, according to Wedbush Securities, up… Read more »
Not all internet IPOs are created equal.
A decade after the dot-com crash, sky-high internet company valuations are prompting a heated argu… Read more »
Windows Phone 7 has not made a much of a dent yet in the worldwide smartphone market — it has less than a four percent share worldwide, acc… Read more »
Professional social net LinkedIn (NYSE: LNKD) more than doubled its share price on its first day of going public on the New York Stock Excha… Read more »
After increasing its IPO price to $45 from $42, LinkedIn’s first day of trading this morning was already off to a strong start. Investor dem… Read more »
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LinkedIn, which is set to go public Thursday, has upped the size of its IPO — again — a sign that there’s been extremely strong interest i… Read more »
Two business social networks; two divergent paths – as LinkedIn plans to achieve a $3 billion valuation in a floatation that is now planned… Read more »
LinkedIn, which filed to raise up to $175 million in an IPO in late January, now says it expects to raise as much as $315 million by going p… Read more »
LinkedIn was born eight years ago today, in Reid Hoffman’s living room. While the social network now adds a million new members each week, i… Read more »
A financial update from IPO hopeful LinkedIn: The social network says that its sales more than doubled to $93.9 million during its most rece… Read more »
In case you missed it, links to some of the top stories in digital media this past week — including our paidContent 50: The Most Successful… Read more »
LinkedIn founder and prominent investor Reid Hoffman has a few simple rules for Internet companies: don’t surprise your users, don’t ask for… Read more »
Facebook has made one of its biggest moves yet in its strategy to dominate mobile services: the social network has acquired Snaptu, a develo… Read more »
LinkedIn is moving into social news, with a new site called LinkedIn Today that aggregates stories that people in a specific industry are sh… Read more »
Google’s Android Marketplace, now home to more than 100,000 mobile apps, has fast become the top competitor to Apple’s App Store. But unlike… Read more »
LinkedIn has become the latest major social network to fall victim to China’s renewed crackdown on the internet, as the ruling Communist par… Read more »
