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Friday | Business Journal

LinkedIn cracking down on... prostitutes?

Career-focused social media giant LinkedIn.com has changed its user agreement, and the target is the oldest profession in the books.

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Related Topix: Startups

Thu May 16, 2013

MarketNewsVideo

Analyst Moves: VAL, GPS, LNKD

This morning, Credit Suisse increased its price target on shares of Valspar to $73 as market conditions are improving.

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Related Topix: Manufacturing, Valspar, Chemicals, Startups, Business News, Video

SchaeffersResearch.com

Positive Price Action Draws Bulls to LinkedIn Corp

LinkedIn Corp is trending about 3.2% higher today, and bullish speculators have taken notice.

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Related Topix: Startups, Social Software, Financial Markets, Personal Finance, Day Trading

Wed May 15, 2013

OpEdNews

No, Facebook is Really Not Your "Friend"

It seems like only yesterday that the Facebook wunderkind was hosting fundraisers for Chris Christie and musing about dipping his toes into the warm, inviting political waters to which all billionaires are drawn, if only by their consciences and an acute understanding of their own importance.

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Related Topix: Social Software, Startups, Facebook, Chris Christie, US Governors, Mark Zuckerberg, Dropbox

RecruitingBlogs.com

Do People Use LinkedIn to Creep on Attractive Women?

Most of us use LinkedIn to network professionally, but a colleague recently told me people were using it to check women out.

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Related Topix: Startups, Social Software

Tue May 14, 2013

I-Newswire.com

AgileThought ALM Experts Present Free Visual Studio Webinars With Microsoft

Microsoft looked to its Most Valuable Professional network for the deep expertise needed for this Worldwide Event and chose two from AgileThought, Inc., a national provider of mobile and custom software solutions.

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Related Topix: Social Software, Startups, Tampa, FL

CBS News

12 great college graduation gift ideas

It seems especially appropriate with so many recent college grad still struggling to find work.

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Related Topix: 9, iPod touch App, iPad App, iPhone and iPad App, LinkedIn, iPhone App, Startups, Social Software, Craigslist.

Seeking Alpha

2 Tech Stocks And 1 Healthcare Company With Recent Intensive Insider Selling

There was intensive insider selling in Nuance Communications in February 2012, when the stock peaked at $31.15. The stock is currently trading at $19.01 or 39.0% below the all time high made in February 2012.

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Related Topix: Startups, Nuance Communications, Social Software

Silicon Alley Insider

This Former Google and VMware Exec Could Help Microsoft Lure New Types Of Developers

As Microsoft continues to remake itself into a devices and services company, it's stepping up efforts to lure developers that may have previously given it a wide berth.

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Related Topix: Microsoft, Startups, Google, Emerging Technology, Search Engines, Sun Microsystems

Mon May 13, 2013

Russia Taday

Zuckerberg's lobby group losing top donors over Keystone XL support

Though only officially announced in April, the new political lobbying group spearheaded by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has already waded into controversy after a subsidiary sponsored a television ad for the controversial Keystone XL tar sands pipeline.

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Related Topix: Social Software, Startups, Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, Microsoft, Immigration Reform

Times-Standard

LinkedIn looks to build on its impressive resume

In this Tuesday, May 7, 2013, photo, LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner, right, and company co-founder Reid Hoffman sit in the lobby of LinkedIn's Mountain View, Calif., headquarters.

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Related Topix: Social Software, Startups, Facebook, Mountain View, CA

Clickz

LinkedIn at 10: Identity Crisis?

LinkedIn wants to become a content publishing platform. Will this transformation destroy its value to advertisers and turn it into a Facebook clone? In the last six months, LinkedIn has made a spate of product enhancements and delivered new ad formats, notably video ads , introduced in October 2012, and SlideShare Content Ads that let advertisers ... (more)

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Related Topix: Social Software, Startups, Facebook, SlideShare, Marketing

Sun May 12, 2013

Albany Times Union

Amazing Career Advice For College Grads From LinkedIn's Billionaire Founder

Reid Hoffman says it took him 15 years after graduating from Stanford in 1990 to figure out what he was really doing with his life.

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Related Topix: Startups, Social Software

Silicon Alley Insider

Amazing Career Advice For College Grads From LinkedIn's Billionaire Founder

Reid Hoffman says it took him 15 years after graduating from Stanford in 1990 to figure out what he was really doing with his life.

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Related Topix: Social Software, Startups

Sat May 11, 2013

Sys-Con Media

Secrets to Making Money in LNKD, MCD, ILMN and FCX

Don't waste time trying to figure it out for yourself; tip the scales in your favor and add our experience to your team.

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Related Topix: Startups, Restaurant Management, Mcdonalds, Scientific Instruments, Biotech, Illumina, Medicine, Healthcare Industry

Daily Kos

No, Facebook is Really Not Your "Friend"

It seems like only yesterday that the Facebook wunderkind was hosting fundraisers for Chris Christie and musing about dipping his toes into the warm, inviting political waters to which all billionaires are drawn, if only by their consciences and an acute understanding of their own importance.

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Related Topix: Social Software, Startups, Facebook, Chris Christie, US Governors, Mark Zuckerberg, Dropbox

The Motley Fool

LinkedIn Updates Privacy Policy to Let In Advertisers

LinkedIn announced the plans to change its privacy policy so as to not surprise its users.

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Related Topix: Startups, Social Software

Fri May 10, 2013

VentureBeat

6 important lessons from this year's Growth Hacker Conference

The second annual Growth Hacker Conference in San Francisco, run by Gagan Biyani and Erin Turner, features some of the smartest growth hackers from the world's biggest tech companies, such as LinkedIn, Twitter, and YouTube.

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Related Topix: Startups, Twitter, Slide, Tagged

Insider Monkey

LinkedIn Corp (LNKD): The Secret Fact That Will Change Your Mind Forever

LinkedIn's stock took a hit last week after the online professional networking service forecast called for a slowdown in future quarters while the company beefs up its infrastructure .

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Related Topix: Social Software, Startups, Google

Benzinga

UBS Joins a Growing Group of Titans in Funding the Entrepreneurial Fellowship Venture for America

In a press release Friday morning, UBS Americas announced it would invest $1.2M over the course of three years to support an entrepreneurial fellowship called Venture for America as part of its "Revitalizing America" initiative.

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Related Topix: Non-Profit, Financial Services, Travelers Express Company, Banking, Bank of America, Startups, Social Software

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