AFI BLOG: Media and Technology

Venture Beat
Over the weekend, we heard that LinkedIn has big news in store, that was likely not an acquisition by the most prominent interested buyer, News Corp. After we published the story on Sunday evening, we heard from two sources that LinkedIn was instead working on raising a new funding round — this is a [...]

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LinkedIn Adds New Company Directory - Search Engine Land

LinkedIn, with help from BusinessWeek’s CapitalIQ, has added a company directory and related factual information to its business network. It’s not easy to get to the company directory, which is only accessible to LinkedIn users at the moment. One can’t simply go to the LinkedIn search box [...]

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Connections are his currency - The Los Angeles Times
Reid Hoffman’s wealth is based on valuable relationships. His firm, LinkedIn, offers others similar opportunities.
Few Internet entrepreneurs practice what they preach as devoutly as LinkedIn Corp. co-founder Reid Hoffman, whose business revolves around his belief that good fortune flows from good relationships.
Hoffman, 40, has put that principle [...]

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LinkedIn Opens To Developers; So Does Friendster & Bebo - paidContent.org
Two “old school” social networks have opened up, and Bebo is announcing later today:
– LinkedIn: Borrowing a cue from Facebook and others, business social net LinkedIn will let developers build app for its site, and added an activity feeds for its users connections. It [...]

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Los Angeles Times story today sings praises of web’s sixth largest social network: LinkedIn…
Since Dan Nye joined LinkedIn Corp. as chief executive less than a year ago, he has presided over dramatic growth even by Silicon Valley standards.
Membership in the career contacts site has climbed to 17 million from 8 million, and the payroll to [...]

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LinkedIn launches platform — a better business social network - Venture Beat
LinkedIn has just launched its own developer platform and a new design that promises to make it more useful to its millions of business users.
Earlier this year, many wondered if social network Facebook would overtake LinkedIn as a business network destination. Many professionals have [...]

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