New Delhi: Professional networking site LinkedIn unveiled localised hiring solutions for the Indian market, a move aimed at helping recruiters tap the vast talent pool in the country. LinkedIn, which has more than 135 million members worldwide, has over 13 million users in India. "Specifically for India, LinkedIn India is rolling out localised versions with India pricing for offerings like LinkedIn Recruiter, which will allow Indian recruiters to search and...
04:08 PM, Feb 07, 2012
New York: Google+ is still no Facebook, Twitter or even MySpace, but its decision to open its services to all users is already paying dividends. Experian Hitwise, a market research company, reports that the site's market share in the social media world increased 1,269 per cent last week. Yes, you read that correctly. Not 12. Not 69. Not even 269. 1,269 per cent. Those 15 million visits to the site...
09:18 AM, Sep 28, 2011
California: President Barack Obama is again turning to a social networking website to host a town hall meeting. The White House says Obama will be in the San Francisco Bay area city of Mountain View on Monday to answer questions about jobs and the economy that are posted to the professional network LinkedIn. The White House announced the meeting on Tuesday. It did not disclose an exact time for the...
09:41 AM, Sep 22, 2011
London: A method of predicting which individuals may become friends on social networking sites based on the places they visit out in the real world has been developed by researchers at Cambridge University in Britain. The new approach to "friend suggestions" looks at the usual haunts of individuals to determine which users may have connections with one another. This, combined with the "friend-of-a-friend" method, currently favoured by social networking sites...
06:04 PM, Aug 04, 2011
San Francisco: Professional social network LinkedIn took the wraps off a tool that allows jobseekers to apply for open positions by sending their LinkedIn profiles directly to prospective employers. The feature is launching as LinkedIn tries to keep its service ahead of the curve amid competition from new networks such as Google's Google+, which allows users to segregate contacts into a professional category. The feature, known as Apply With LinkedIn,...
07:53 AM, Jul 26, 2011
New York: When it comes to professional networking, men around the world are savvier than women, according to new data. Business networking site LinkedIn, which analyzed information from members in 13 countries, found men were the overwhelming winners in networking. "Men are broader and quicker at assessing if there is an opportunity," said Nicole Williams, the company's connection director. "They are quicker to makes moves." The company, which has more...
11:40 AM, Jun 25, 2011
New York: Facebook, it turns out, isn't just a waste of time. People who use it have more close friends, get more social support and report being more politically engaged than those who don't, according to a new national study on Americans and social networks. The report comes as Facebook, Twitter and even the buttoned-up, career-oriented LinkedIn continue to engrain themselves in our daily lives and change the way we...
08:21 AM, Jun 17, 2011
Singapore: Career networking website LinkedIn opened its Asian headquarters in Singapore on Tuesday, part of a plan to tap the region's large pool of professionals. LinkedIn plans to hire more than 12 staff in Singapore to add to the company's three offices in India and two in Australia, Asia Pacific Managing Director Arvind Rajan said. The company is also looking at opening an office in Japan this year, Rajan said....
03:33 PM, May 31, 2011
San Francisco: There was an unmistakable echo of the dot-com boom Thursday on Wall Street. LinkedIn, a trailblazer in the online networking craze, went public with a roaring stock offering. Within minutes, shares were trading at twice the value set by the company. Buyers crowded the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, and financial news networks flashed LinkedIn's stock price urgently all day. By the closing bell, the company...
11:38 AM, May 20, 2011
New York: LinkedIn said it expects to raise 30 per cent more than it had forecast in its initial public offering, in a sign of the strength of investor appetite for social networking companies. The company, which operates a website where professionals connect with one another, now plans to sell shares at $42 to $45 each, up from a previous range of $32 to $35. The IPO is expected to...
07:16 AM, May 18, 2011
New York: LinkedIn, the online social network for professionals and job seekers, now has 100 million members worldwide and more than half are from outside the United States. The company said on Tuesday it is now growing at a rate of roughly 1 million new members every week. The new total is about 10 million more than LinkedIn disclosed in a regulatory filing on March 11. Brazil and Mexico are...
11:27 AM, Mar 23, 2011
Mountain View: LinkedIn, the Internet social network for professionals, launched a service on Thursday that creates a customized online newspaper from articles being shared by the network's more than 90 million members and by users of Twitter. The new service, called LinkedIn Today, displays excerpts of the most popular articles in various industries, in a move that the company hopes will spur users to interact more on its website. LinkedIn,...
10:46 AM, Mar 11, 2011
New York: In what could signal a big year of Internet initial public offerings, social networking website LinkedIn Corp announced plans on Thursday to float shares to the public. The number of shares to be offered and the price range for the offering have not yet been determined, according to the form S-1 registration statement the company filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. LinkedIn revealed its plans to raise...
11:21 AM, Jan 28, 2011
New York: LinkedIn, the social networking site for professionals, plans to go public in 2011 and has selected its financial underwriters, three sources familiar with the process told Reuters. Morgan Stanley, Bank of America and JPMorgan are among the book runners, these sources said. Bankers made their pitches to the privately-held company in November, one of the sources said. "An IPO is just one of many tactics that we could...
12:03 PM, Jan 06, 2011
London: Applying for a new job? Well, don't put on your CV that you are a proactive team player with a proven track record and a dynamic skill set, even if you're. This is because words and phrases such as "dynamic" or "problem solver" have been named as the most overused cliches on jargon-filled CVs in a list compiled by business network 'LinkedIn' which has 85 million members. It found...
03:10 PM, Dec 22, 2010
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