San Francisco: Online professional networking service LinkedIn is dressing up its mobile application to impress people who are increasingly scrolling through content on smartphones. The changes being unveiled Thursday mark LinkedIn's first major overhaul of its mobile app in 20 months.
Since then, more than 80 million additional accounts have been opened on LinkedIn's website to push its total beyond 200 million users worldwide.
More of those people are checking LinkedIn on mobile devices as they look for career tips, job leads and interesting information about companies and industries. LinkedIn features plenty of that content, but it hasn't been easy to find on its mobile app. By making all that easier, LinkedIn is hoping people will come back more often, giving the company more opportunities to sell advertising.
The new design relies on formulas that are supposed to figure out which features and topics are the most appealing to each user and ensure that those services are just one tap away. Finding some content on LinkedIn's previous app required up to four taps to the frustration of many users who only had a couple minutes of free time, said Joff Redfern, the company's head of mobile products....
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07:02 AM, Apr 19, 2013
San Francisco: LinkedIn Corp introduced revamped mobile apps on Wednesday that give greater prominence to the stream of information shared by members of the professional social network and will for the first time allow the company to show ads to smartphone users. LinkedIn will begin showing advertisements within the mobile app's news stream as part of a "small test," said LinkedIn spokeswoman Julie Inouye. The new app, available for both...
09:53 AM, Apr 18, 2013
California: Professional networking website LinkedIn is paying about $90 million to acquire Pulse, which makes an e-reader platform used on mobile devices. More than 30 million people worldwide use Pulse's e-reader applications on devices running both Apple and Android-based operating systems. The San Francisco-based company was founded in 2010 by Akshay Kothari and Ankit Gupta while they were students at Stanford University. The deal, which is expected to close in...
10:49 AM, Apr 13, 2013
Majority of working women in the country prefer greater flexibility at workplace and they define professional success as the right balance between work and personal life, says a survey. Professional networking site LinkedIn's survey that was released on Monday said that 94 per cent of Indian women felt that they have led a successful career. ...
05:20 PM, Mar 04, 2013
LinkedIn, the social network for professionals, has unveiled a new feature - LinkedIn Jobs, as per a blog post. LinkedIn's Vaibhav Goel elaborates that the new LinkedIn Jobs is an attempt at helping users find their dream job. ...
03:35 PM, Feb 17, 2013
Doing rounds on all social networks it's about Valentine's Day 'Q-tiyapa' - plays on a popular Hindi abuse. ...
04:54 PM, Feb 15, 2013
Shares of LinkedIn climbed nearly 21 per cent in midday trading on Friday. ...
02:04 PM, Feb 09, 2013
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg unveiled a new search feature that's designed to entice people to spend more time on his company's website and will put the world's largest online social network more squarely in competition with Google and other rivals such as Yelp and LinkedIn. ...
12:46 PM, Jan 16, 2013
New Delhi: LinkedIn, the professional networking website, has released its first ever list of the most viewed professionals on LinkedIn in India. The list called Power Profiles 2012 includes 37 different profiles across six categories. LinkedIn has 17 million users in India and over 187 million users globally. List of the most viewed LinkedIn profiles in India: Internet - Kunal Bahl, CEO, Snapdeal.com - Sachin Bansal, Co-founder & CEO, Flipkart.com...
04:50 PM, Dec 04, 2012
San Francisco: Professional social network LinkedIn Corp will let its users "follow" and receive updates from people outside their personal contact list, a move that could entice users to spend more time on its website. The new feature, which LinkedIn announced on Tuesday, takes a page from other popular social networks such as Twitter and Facebook Inc, where users can check for updates from leaders, celebrities and others with large...
10:08 AM, Oct 03, 2012
California: Professional networking website LinkedIn plans to expand its California operation to a new campus in Sunnyvale. The Mountain View-based company said in a regulatory filing on Wednesday that it has reached a deal to lease 580,000 square feet of space in the city. It plans to build a new campus there that could accommodate 2,900 workers. The campus is expected to open in July 2014. LinkedIn spokeswoman Erin O'Harra...
10:34 AM, Sep 01, 2012
London: US semiconductor maker Nvidia Corp. says up to 400,000 users of its forums have had their encrypted passwords compromised in attacks dating back to early July. It's the latest in a stream of data thefts which has hit major Internet companies over the past few weeks. Search provider Yahoo, networking sites LinkedIn and FormSpring, and dating site eHarmony have all recently reported breaches which collectively compromised the online credentials...
10:44 AM, Jul 14, 2012
Houston: Soon the popular social networking site Facebook will become a recruiter, as per knowledgeable sources, by launching its own job board after teaming with existing job-posting companies, the sources said. Citing anonymous sources, media reports said that BranchOut, Jobvite and Work4Labs will be at least three of the companies that will pair with the platform. With the rise of LinkedIn - and its aggressive moves into social-networking functionality -...
01:48 PM, Jul 07, 2012
California: An Illinois woman has filed a $5 million lawsuit against LinkedIn Corp, saying the social network violated promises to consumers by not having better security in place when more than 6 million customer passwords were stolen. The lawsuit, which was brought in federal court in San Jose, California, on June 15 and seeks class-action status, was filed less than two weeks after the stolen passwords turned up on websites...
11:58 AM, Jun 21, 2012
Chicago: For job seekers and employers alike, LinkedIn provides a valuable service. While many features are free, the professional social networking website dangles an array of additional tools - for a price. But for those on a budget, is a LinkedIn Premium account worth the money? The answer depends on how you use LinkedIn, which has more than 160 million members. For recruiters or those in cold-call sales, LinkedIn Premium's...
01:45 PM, Jun 15, 2012
Bangalore: Social networking website LinkedIn Corp said it will provide an additional layer of online security to its members following last week's data breach, while adding that stolen passwords were not published with corresponding email logins. Some cyber security experts had earlier said LinkedIn did not have adequate protections in place, and warned that the company could uncover further data-losses over coming days as it tries to find out what...
09:15 AM, Jun 13, 2012
San Francisco: LinkedIn Corp, criticised for inadequate network security after hackers exposed millions of its users' passwords, said on Saturday it had finished disabling all affected accounts and did not believe other members were at risk. The company, a social network for business professionals, promised to beef up security, days after more than 6 million customer passwords turned up on underground sites frequented by criminal hackers. The break-in - the...
09:48 AM, Jun 10, 2012
New York: LinkedIn Corp's silence on the extent of a security breach that exposed millions of user passwords has damaged its reputation among some business professionals, and may slow the growing company's rise if the breach turns out to be more serious than disclosed. Several days after news of the theft of the passwords emerged, the site with more than 160 million members still says it has yet to determine...
01:08 PM, Jun 09, 2012
New Delhi: Following the massive password leak at LinkedIn, believed to have affected over 6 million users, security experts have recommended that LinkedIn users change their passwords immediately. If you think that by simply changing your LinkedIn password you are safe? Think again. You may need to change many of your online passwords. The reason is that many users tend to use the same passwords across multiple Web services -...
02:39 PM, Jun 07, 2012
London: Business social network LinkedIn said on Wednesday that some of its users' passwords have been stolen and leaked onto the Internet. LinkedIn Corp. did not say how many of the more than six million passwords that were distributed online corresponded to LinkedIn accounts. In a blog post Wednesday, the company said it was continuing to investigate. Graham Cluley, a consultant with UK Web security company Sophos, recommended that LinkedIn...
07:08 AM, Jun 07, 2012
