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 in the process: it’s understood that Anderson Teixeira, formerly an executive that had run different regional operations for the JV, is now Apple’s first…

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 their bubble burst today: its shares opened above its initial offer price range, before quickly dipping down again.

A California man claimed that LinkedIn (NYSE: LNKD) “humiliated” him by sharing his Internet browsing history with marketers. In a big win for the professional social networking site, a federal judge found that the man couldn’t go forward with the suit because he hadn’t been harmed—financially, emotionally or otherwise. The…

The continuing migration of audiences and ad dollars to digital has helped serve as a balm against growing economic fears that have resulted in downward revisions for total spending forecasts. But one other thing may be helping online: better, clearer relationships between the sell side and the buy side, according…

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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 earnings report. A little less than three months after going public, the company posted a surprise profit, and its shares are up 4 percent in after-hours trading. Membership…

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Klout score is not yet an easily recognizable metric compared to, say, one’s number of Twitter followers or Facebook friends. But the company, which aims to measure users’ online influence (and which recently attracted attention for giving away Spotify accounts), wants that score to be more meaningful than either. Klout…

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 funding. The investment is yet another vote of confidence in the demand for more data crunching in the long tail of social media content.

Venture capitalists poured $2.23 billion into hot social media companies in the second quarter of 2011, according to Wedbush Securities, up from $643 million one year ago. The influx of money comes as some of the biggest social media upstarts are going public, or preparing to do so, and reflects…

Not all internet IPOs are created equal. A decade after the dot-com crash, sky-high internet company valuations are prompting a heated argument over whether the market is entering another tech bubble. But the “bubble vs. no-bubble” debate risks obscuring the need to evaluate each company on its own merits, rather…

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, according to the latest figures from Gartner—but Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) is still moving full steam ahead in its push to carve out a space in…

Professional social net LinkedIn (NYSE: LNKD) more than doubled its share price on its first day of going public on the New York Stock Exchange, giving it a market value of $8.95 billion. The $45 opening price ended the day up 108.58 percent—closing at $94.25 a share.

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 demand sent the price shooting up, more than doubling to $92.99 barely an hour after the market opened before settling between $87 and $90 by 11:30…

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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 in the stock from investors.

Two business social networks; two divergent paths - as LinkedIn plans to achieve a $3 billion valuation in a floatation that is now planned for Thursday, European counterpart Viadeo is aborting its own IPO.

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 public. In an SEC filing today, the company says it will sell as many as 9 million shares at between $32 and…

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, it wasn’t always such smooth sailing; the company has had layoffs and seen a CEO shuffle—Jeff Weiner replaced Hoffman, who replaced Dan Nye, who replaced, well,…

A financial update from IPO hopeful LinkedIn: The social network says that its sales more than doubled to $93.9 million during its most recent quarter, up from $44.7 million during the same period in 2010. Net income during the period was $2.078 million, up from $1.815 million. Most of the…