SAN FRANCISCO – Some Trulia employees who were laid off following the close of the company’s acquisition by Zillow may have a new home in LinkedIn. Jeff Weiner, the CEO… Read More
Probably the most vocal advocate out there encouraging women to code, Facebook’s chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg has announced an expanded effort to encourage even more women to do just that.… Read More
Looking for a gig? This could help: LinkedIn has released a list of “The 25 Hottest Skills That Got People Hired in 2014.” Pro tip: Learn some statistical analysis and data… Read More
Koru announced today that professional networking site LinkedIn has signed on to host participants in its four-week job training program designed to get recent and soon-to-be college graduates into the… Read More
Looking over the diversity data released by major tech companies over the past several months paints a bleak picture of gender equality in the tech industry, as illustrated by this… Read More
LinkedIn is making a new push for paid members with a slate of new features for its LinkedIn Premium service, and a new budget-oriented $9.99/month premium tier. The features, announced today,… Read More
Twitter trumps Facebook — at least in employee approval ratings. That’s just one of the findings from Glassdoor’s sixth annual Employees’ Choice Awards, which ranked the top 50 best tech companies… Read More
While they’re usually fierce competitors, an octet of leading technology companies have banded together to ask the U.S. to take the lead when it comes to ending government surveillance. AOL,… Read More
Learning the game of bridge isn’t the only thing Warren Buffet has taught Bill Gates. In Gates’ first-ever post on LinkedIn titled “Three Things I’ve Learned from Warren Buffett,” the Microsoft co-founder… Read More
[Editor’s note: Seattle entrepreneurs Barry Chu and Dave Cotter share some of their startup lessons in starting the new mobile app SquareHub. The three-part series is running this week on GeekWire,… Read More
[Editor’s note: Seattle entrepreneurs Barry Chu and Dave Cotter share some of their startup lessons in starting the new mobile app SquareHub. The three-part series is running this week on… Read More
Editor’s Note: Nerd Notes is GeekWire’s roundup of random geekiness from around the globe. National Day of Unplugging (NDU): Beginning tonight at sunset, and ending 24 hours later, citizens across the… Read More
Instagram, welcome to the 100 million club. The Facebook-owned photo sharing social network announced today that two-and-a-half years after launch, Instagram has surpassed the 100 million user mark. Co-founder Kevin… Read More
Some numbers out of the LinkedIn camp today highlight how successful the social network is doing. The company has reached the 200 million user milestone across more than 200 countries and… Read More
Some social media companies rise and fall quickly. Twitter, however, doesn’t seem to be going away anytime soon. The company used its own account this morning to announce that there are… Read More
When employers dangle salaries and signing bonuses and Justin Bieber songs in front of prospective employees, they might just want to consider how well they’re doing on one more thing:… Read More
I’m a big fan of Alley Insider’s Chart of the Day service in which the online news publication puts relevant news in chart form. But their latest effort left me scratching… Read More
It appears that the content-sharing partnership forged by Twitter and LinkedIn in 2009 — like “peanut butter and chocolate,” according to LinkedIn’s blog post at the time — is no more.… Read More
LinkedIn today updated its users on the stolen password fiasco that arose last week in which 6.4 million passwords were illegally obtained and posted on a Russian Web site. According… Read More
LinkedIn finally released its first official app for Windows Phone this week. It’s an important addition to Microsoft’s catalog of apps, particularly as the Redmond company tries to make inroads… Read More
It was shaping up to be a solid year for initial public offerings. But then things hit a wall in August and September, with IPO Dashboards reporting just five IPOs during… Read More
There’s been a lot of chatter in recent months about whether the valuations of Internet companies are out of whack. I tend to agree with those observers who say things… Read More
Let’s face it, you gotta be a little off kilter to take the entrepreneurial plunge. But what is the the actual makeup of entrepreneurs? LinkedIn takes a look today, using… Read More
Interesting new releases and downloads catching our attention today … Netflix rolled out a new section of its website called “Just for Kids” today, offering a simplified menu of streaming… Read More
Silicon Valley companies have been flocking to Seattle in recent months, coming here (not for the nice weather obviously) but a desire to tap into the region’s robust technical talent.… Read More
There have been some shifts in the “geosocial universe” in recent days, with LinkedIn going public and Microsoft gobbling up Skype. (Maybe this apocalypse thing really is gonna happen). The… Read More
LinkedIn’s stock more than doubled in its stock market debut Thursday, rising from the $45 offering price to a high of $122 before closing the day at $94.25. It starts its… Read More
Netscape’s 1995 IPO was the start of what many considered the beginning of the Internet boom. Did LinkedIn just create the 2011 equivalent? The 8-year-old social networking giant today priced its… Read More
