Articles about LinkedIn

All play and no work: LinkedIn launches daily games, and here’s why we’re easily hooked

LinkedIn — the place where you go to update your resume, network with other professionals and search for jobs — is… Read More

LinkedIn explores adding puzzle-based games to its feed

LinkedIn wants to add a little more fun to its feed. Posts on social media and a report from TechCrunch… Read More

LinkedIn suffers outage a day after Facebook and Instagram — and X is left as our social media fix

So much for my after-lunch job search and profile lurking. A day after a Meta outage knocked out Facebook, Messenger… Read More

Microsoft targets AI skills gap with new training program and grant challenge

Microsoft is launching a new AI Skills Initiative that includes a global grant challenge, free online courses, and a training… Read More

Microsoft sets aside $425M to help cover potential LinkedIn targeted advertising fine

Microsoft will take a charge of $425 million in the current quarter in anticipation of a fine from the Irish… Read More

Microsoft’s ‘Verified ID’ will confirm that LinkedIn members actually work where they say they do

Microsoft is expanding its digital identity technology to LinkedIn with a new tool that lets companies give their employees a… Read More

Commentary: Why the courts are right to rule against LinkedIn in battle over data scraping

The common practice of “scraping” a website’s publicly available data has come under legal attack. A landmark court decision (HiQ… Read More

Tech Moves: Ex-Amazon product manager joins Shelf Engine; Nerdio adds former Microsoft exec to board; Hootsuite hires CPO

— Gavriella Schuster, a former Microsoft vice president, joined Nerdio’s board of directors. Schuster spent more than 25 years at… Read More

Amazon is No. 1 on LinkedIn’s annual ranking of top 50 companies where people want to work in U.S.

As it strives to be “Earth’s Best Employer,” Amazon will have to settle for “top U.S. company,” at least according… Read More

Tech Moves: Porch Group CFO will step down; OfferUp legal leader joins SeekOut

— Porch Group CFO Marty Heimbigner is leaving the Seattle-based home services company. In a new SEC filing posted Friday,… Read More

Coming and going? New tech hubs emerge, but Seattle ranks as most-desired city for college grads

As Seattle has established itself as a so-called “superstar” city among established tech hubs, recent reports and data sets are… Read More

Microsoft’s new heyday: PC ‘renaissance’ and cloud boom drive record revenue and employment

Microsoft surpassed $50 billion in quarterly revenue for the first time, with profits of $18.8 billion, up 22%, in its… Read More

Microsoft to acquire AT&T’s Xandr advertising tech business, gearing up for a ‘post-cookie world’

Microsoft reached a deal to acquire AT&T’s advertising technology division, Xandr, seeking to strengthen its own advertising business as the… Read More

Microsoft will shut down local version of LinkedIn in China

Microsoft said Thursday that it will pull LinkedIn from China later this year as it faces a “significantly more challenging… Read More

Study of Microsoft employees shows how remote work puts productivity and innovation at risk

A new study finds that Microsoft’s companywide shift to remote work has hurt communication and collaboration among different business groups… Read More

Textio brings inclusive writing guidance to LinkedIn, and Seattle startup bounces back after pandemic

Seattle-based augmented writing startup Textio has always sought to help people better communicate where they do their work, whether it’s… Read More

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Satya Nadella’s biggest success as Microsoft CEO; Inside GeekWire’s Great Race; Number of the Week

When Microsoft announced its acquisition of LinkedIn for more than $26 billion five years ago, there was lots of skepticism,… Read More

LinkedIn posts first $10 billion year, 5 years after Microsoft deal, but profits remain a mystery

Microsoft’s biggest acquisition just joined the ranks of its biggest businesses. Five years after Microsoft announced its intent to acquire… Read More

Microsoft, LinkedIn roll out more initiatives to help people build their skills and find jobs

More than 30 million people worldwide have used free, online learning courses from Microsoft and its LinkedIn and GitHub subsidiaries… Read More

LinkedIn is down: ‘An error has occured’ (Update: Resolved)

LinkedIn is down today with a generic “An error has occured” (sic) message. You know it’s not a typical outage… Read More

LinkedIn cuts 960 jobs, or 6% of workforce, as demand dips for hiring software due to pandemic

Microsoft-owned LinkedIn is laying off 6% of its employee base as fewer companies use its platform due to a reduced… Read More

LinkedIn CEO apologizes after employees make ‘appalling’ comments during virtual town hall

LinkedIn CEO Ryan Roslansky — just days into his new role — apologized to staff after employees made offensive comments… Read More

Tech Moves: LinkedIn has a new CEO; Vera Whole Health and Amperity add execs; and more

— Seattle-based Vera Whole Health appointed Karen Cooke as chief operating officer. Cooke was most recently vice president of strategic… Read More

Microsoft reports new spike in Teams usage as work habits change around the world

Microsoft Teams logged a new daily record of 2.7 billion total meeting minutes in a single day, on Tuesday, March… Read More

Bill Gates says coronavirus will forever alter work, but face-to-face school is ‘totally irreplaceable’

Bill Gates’ 1995 book “The Road Ahead” forecast the way personal computing and the internet would change everything about life… Read More

LinkedIn cites ‘low adoption’ for decision to end Sales Navigator integration with Gmail

LinkedIn plans to pull the plug next month on a Chrome browser extension that lets Gmail and GSuite users see… Read More

LinkedIn’s Jeff Weiner will hand CEO role to Ryan Roslansky and become executive chairman

LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner, who guided the business-networking company through its $26.2 billion acquisition by Microsoft in 2016, says he’ll… Read More

LinkedIn CEO explains why Microsoft integrations have been so slow since $26B acquisition

In the leadup to its acquisition of LinkedIn in 2016, Microsoft promised to take a deliberate, hands-off approach to integrating… Read More

Microsoft-owned LinkedIn jumps into real-life networking with new event planning feature

LinkedIn is getting into networking in the physical world for the first time, expanding on its bread-and-butter of connecting professionals… Read More

LinkedIn to address inequality with new push to close ‘networking gap’ for users

LinkedIn wants to reduce inequality among its member base by taking on the so-called “networking gap” — advantages some people… Read More