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Emails allegedly coming from LinkedIn to notify the recipient that someone has sent him a message hide a malicious plan to advertise a pharmacy site that commercializes illegal or shady products.
“[Name] has sent you a message. Click the link below to read this message in your browser. [Link] View/reply to thi... |
12 January 2012
03:24 GMT |
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In order for Battlefield 3 to be competitive against Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, the new Battlelog feature will have to measure up well against the Elite service from Beachhead and Activision when it comes to making the first person shooter experience more social.Speaking to Gamasutra Patrick Liu, who is one of t... |
20 October 2011
15:01 GMT |
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Social networking websites are quite the buzz of the Internet nowadays. There are multiple services to choose from, but Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and the blooming Google+ have grabbed the attention of the whole planet. Gooce+ is very far from having the number of adepts any of these websites have, but it managed to... |
24 August 2011
13:51 GMT |
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Members of the Dutch Parliament have asked the country's security and justice minister to investigate whether the LinkedIn's new social ads feature violates data protection legislation.LinkedIn just rolled out a new system that uses people's names and pictures in ads displayed to others in their networ... |
12 August 2011
04:28 GMT |
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When released later during the ongoing year, the next iteration of Windows Phone will include new features aimed at providing users with great new experiences, and the Twitter and LinkedIn integration that just got showcased is one of them.
The company has already made available a beta version of this Windows Ph... |
20 July 2011
15:11 GMT |
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Facebook has won the social networking wars. It did it a couple of years ago in fact, and there hasn't been anything to challenge it since. Google+ may cause a stir, but it's still a long way off from being even remotely in a position to get close to the social networking mammoth.That said, perhaps there�... |
9 July 2011
07:00 GMT |
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Security researchers have identified a new Facebook scam which abuses LinkedIn's open URL redirector in order to bypass spam filters and lend credibility to the fake messages.Users are lured with rogue wall posts that read: "The Video Tweet That Just Ended Justin Biebers Career For Good" and appear to link to pa... |
4 July 2011
08:22 GMT |
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A new wave of rogue emails posing as LinkedIn invitations is directing recipients to a page hosting an exploit pack that drops malware on their computers.The messages bear subjects of the form "[Name] at [Company] wants to connect on LinkedIn" and have forged headers to appear as if they originate from a @linkedin.co... |
6 June 2011
08:23 GMT |
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After having filed for an IPO and managed to attract more than 100 million users, LinkedIn is continuing its ascendant trend by opening its first headquarters in Singapore. The widely popular social network for professionals has chosen to open this office in order to assist businessmen from the APAC region.Furtherm... |
31 May 2011
16:47 GMT |
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Following two very successful web IPOs in the past couple of weeks, it looks like the time is right for hot internet companies to be going public. Investors are clearly hungry for this type of companies and the high valuations they fetch could mean a lot of money for the companies, their founders and existing venture... |
30 May 2011
04:50 GMT |
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LinkedIn plans to mitigate the security concerns related to its session cookies by reducing their lifespan to three months and implementing HTTPS across the entire social networking site.A few days ago a security researcher disclosed several problems with LinkedIn's authentication tokens which exposed accounts t... |
24 May 2011
12:58 GMT |
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An independent security researcher has discovered several security issues with LinkedIn session cookies which can expose users to man-in-the-middle attacks.At the core the problems reported by New Delhi-based researcher Rishi Narang are not different than those affecting any service whose users can connect over insec... |
23 May 2011
13:56 GMT |
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The first of a string of highly anticipated tech company IPOs was a huge success, judging by the first day of trading. Shares of LinkedIn, which started trading yesterday on the New York Stock Exchange, surged from their initial price of $45, which plenty were saying was too high, to as much as $122 and settled at ar... |
20 May 2011
04:30 GMT |
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LinkedIn, the professional social network is finally going public, later today. It's the first social networking IPO, the first big Web 2.0 IPO and the first of a string of very hot initial offers coming, Zynga, Groupon and, of course, Facebook.LinkedIn shares will be traded on the New York Stock Exchange under ... |
19 May 2011
08:20 GMT |
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Security researchers from Belgian email security provider MX Lab warn about a wave of fake LinkedIn emails using Mother's Day to lure users to spam.Today is Mother's Day in the United States and a lot of people are trying to honor their mothers in the best way possible.But as always, cyber criminals are jus... |
8 May 2011
08:09 GMT |
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Mobile phone users owning a device running under Google's Android operating system now have at their disposal a new application, which would enable them to stay connected to a professional network at all times, namely LinkedIn for Android.
The mobile application has been available in a beta version for a sho... |
9 April 2011
09:41 GMT |
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LinkedIn has announced a major milestone, it now has 100 million registered users. The eight year old professional social network has been adding new users at a steady rate and says it is growing faster than ever now. The company is looking to go public later this year, though its financial aspects are not as great a... |
22 March 2011
10:15 GMT |
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A nice range of new enhancements are now available for the users of HootSuite for BlackBerry, including various performance improvements, as well as bug fixes and new features. According to the development team behind the application has added support for more social networks into the mix, so that users would be abl... |
25 February 2011
09:23 GMT |
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LinkedIn, the popular social network for professionals, has finally confirmed that it is going public. The company will file for an IPO though it hasn't said when or at what valuation. It has revealed some numbers and, though revenue and net income are not spectacular, they are on the rise. And there are other i... |
28 January 2011
11:14 GMT |
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A Facebook IPO, the one everyone's been waiting for, may not be coming for at least another year, but there may be a chance to invest in a popular social network soon as LinkedIn is said to be filing for an initial public offer sometime this year, within the next several months. The plans are underway and have b... |
6 January 2011
09:52 GMT |
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LinkedIn has taken the preventive step of resetting passwords on accounts that shared email addresses with the ones compromised at Gawker Media a few days ago.The decision comes after the high-profile compromise, which resulted in a database of 1.3 million accounts being leaked, was directly linked to a mass spam att... |
15 December 2010
02:54 GMT |
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With over 85 million people, LinkedIn has its hands on a veritable treasure trove of data. And it's putting it to good use, uncovering the most over-used buzz words in LinkedIn profiles. The idea is to showcase what words and expressions are used so often they lose all their meaning and may end up driving a pote... |
14 December 2010
11:24 GMT |
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LinkedIn has been growing at a steady pace and its focus on the professional market helped it win over quite a large number of users. These users provide the company with a lot of data and the latest effort to tap into that and create a useful feature is Career Explorer, a tool which allows students to see what their... |
4 October 2010
04:39 GMT |
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XING, the Hamburg, Germany based social network for professionals has revealed that it has reached the 10 million users mark. The company says that its previous quarter was its best in terms of growth in users and revenue. "XING, the social network for business professionals, today announced that it has recently pass... |
27 September 2010
10:40 GMT |
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The user is at the center of the Windows Live team’s concern and their goal is to keep building exciting new experiences as well as teaming up with the right partners, for the customers’ satisfaction. Today, the Windows Live team announces its newest partner – LinkedIn. LinkedIn has over 75 million... |
23 September 2010
15:55 GMT |
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LinkedIn, the social network for professionals, has made its first acquisition to date. LinkedIn bought mSpoke, a startup focusing on media recommendations. The social network was likely interested in the technology developed by mSpoke. The financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed. “mSpoke and Li... |
4 August 2010
10:16 GMT |
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The social networking wars have been over for almost a year now, when it became clear that Facebook was unstoppable. While its competitors tried various strategies to remain relevant, Facebook kept on growing, reaching about 500 million users. But the niche social network LinkedIn kept on growing as well, not at the ... |
21 June 2010
06:10 GMT |
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One of the latest software solutions recently released for users of BlackBerry smartphones is LinkedIn for BlackBerry v1.0, which comes with a full, rich feature set, meant to enable owners of such a device tap into the most useful options of LinkedIn. The new application is available for download for Tour, Curve, a... |
30 March 2010
08:40 GMT |
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The social networking space seems pretty locked-in. Facebook easily dominates and its once potential rivals, notably MySpace, are losing ground. Its stronghold is the US, but it's doing well in almost any market it's in. The market for a mainstream social network is pretty much dead at this point, but smar... |
6 January 2010
09:19 GMT |
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Everyone loves to play the guessing game when it comes to Facebook's, and other social networks', revenue and worth. Some are more informed than others, but at the end of the day, without any official figures, all they can do is speculate. Not that this is stopping anyone and the Wall Street Journal is rev... |
8 December 2009
08:17 GMT |
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Redmond-based software giant Microsoft is hard at work with the development of the future iteration of its mobile operating system, Windows Mobile 7, yet it chooses to remain silent on the novelties that one should expect for the upcoming platform version to include. However, various details on the OS emerged alread... |
2 December 2009
06:34 GMT |
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It's hard to make any progress in social networking without opening up the service to outside developers. Even Facebook, arguably the most closed off social network, knows this and has made the most of its Facebook Connect offering. Now LinkedIn is looking to do the same with the announcement that it has finall... |
24 November 2009
08:22 GMT |
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Twitter looks to be as popular as ever, judging by all the attention it's been getting, but for several months traffic numbers in the US have been stalling and they've actually dropped in October from the previous month, going from 20.9 to just 19.2 million, according to comScore numbers. Traffic has been ... |
13 November 2009
09:41 GMT |
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Twitter has been on a roll lately when it comes to partnerships. It signed a deal with Bing to provide the search engine with real-time results, and barely a few hours later Google made its own announcement of a similar deal. Now, Twitter and LinkedIn have announced they've reached an agreement and a partnership... |
10 November 2009
06:26 GMT |
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Social networks haven't exactly lost their image as teen hangouts but these days teenagers are hardly the dominant population on any social network including Facebook or MySpace. And there isn't a greater example of how social networks are going mainstream than LinkedIn, a social network dedicated to profes... |
15 October 2009
04:10 GMT |
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Social networking service LinkedIn has announced a new CEO, Jeff Weiner replacing founder Reid Hoffman who temporarily held the position. The site is the fifth largest social network in the world with 42 million registered users and 15 million monthly unique visitors. “LinkedIn was founded to harness the power ... |
26 June 2009
11:48 GMT |
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Hackers are using the LinkedIn professional networking service to spread trojans, antivirus researchers warn. The fake profiles of tens of celebrities are enticing users to visit malicious links claiming to point to their nude videos. LinkedIn is a popular social networking website for professionals, allowing them to... |
7 January 2009
08:09 GMT |
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There have been rumors about talks being had by News Corp and LinkedIn, concerning a possible takeover by the first of the latter. Basically, they turned out to be bogus, the only issues brought into conversation being future partnerships. (Yawns) Booooring! That's too bad, too, because, as Duncan Riley of TechC... |
4 December 2007
04:47 GMT |
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