LinkedIn — the place where you go to update your resume, network with other professionals and search for jobs — is now another place to play games. Taking a cue from… Read More
LinkedIn wants to add a little more fun to its feed. Posts on social media and a report from TechCrunch over the weekend revealed the Microsoft-owned platform may add several… Read More
So much for my after-lunch job search and profile lurking. A day after a Meta outage knocked out Facebook, Messenger and Instagram, LinkedIn suffered a similar fate on Wednesday, as… Read More
Microsoft is launching a new AI Skills Initiative that includes a global grant challenge, free online courses, and a training toolkit for teachers. The initiative, announced Wednesday morning by Microsoft… Read More
Microsoft will take a charge of $425 million in the current quarter in anticipation of a fine from the Irish Data Protection Commission over alleged data privacy violations stemming from… Read More
Microsoft is expanding its digital identity technology to LinkedIn with a new tool that lets companies give their employees a way to prove to the outside world that they’re not… Read More
The common practice of “scraping” a website’s publicly available data has come under legal attack. A landmark court decision (HiQ Labs v. LinkedIn) recently concluded that scraping is lawful, but… Read More
— Gavriella Schuster, a former Microsoft vice president, joined Nerdio’s board of directors. Schuster spent more than 25 years at Microsoft, where she most recently led the One Commercial Partner… Read More
As it strives to be “Earth’s Best Employer,” Amazon will have to settle for “top U.S. company,” at least according to LinkedIn and its annual list of the 50 places… Read More
— Porch Group CFO Marty Heimbigner is leaving the Seattle-based home services company. In a new SEC filing posted Friday, Porch said that it “mutually agreed” with Heimbigner to start… Read More
As Seattle has established itself as a so-called “superstar” city among established tech hubs, recent reports and data sets are shining a light on how the pandemic has helped other… Read More
Microsoft surpassed $50 billion in quarterly revenue for the first time, with profits of $18.8 billion, up 22%, in its financial results posted Tuesday afternoon. Generating profits at that rate,… Read More
Microsoft reached a deal to acquire AT&T’s advertising technology division, Xandr, seeking to strengthen its own advertising business as the industry shifts away from online tracking technologies. AT&T has reportedly… Read More
Microsoft said Thursday that it will pull LinkedIn from China later this year as it faces a “significantly more challenging operating environment and greater compliance requirements” in the country. LinkedIn… Read More
A new study finds that Microsoft’s companywide shift to remote work has hurt communication and collaboration among different business groups inside the company, threatening employee productivity and long-term innovation. That’s… Read More
Seattle-based augmented writing startup Textio has always sought to help people better communicate where they do their work, whether it’s in Gmail, Outlook or elsewhere. Now Textio is bringing the… Read More
When Microsoft announced its acquisition of LinkedIn for more than $26 billion five years ago, there was lots of skepticism, and for good reason. After all, Microsoft was a company… Read More
Microsoft’s biggest acquisition just joined the ranks of its biggest businesses. Five years after Microsoft announced its intent to acquire LinkedIn for more than $26 billion, the business social network… Read More
More than 30 million people worldwide have used free, online learning courses from Microsoft and its LinkedIn and GitHub subsidiaries to boost their workplace skills during the COVID-19 pandemic. On… Read More
LinkedIn is down today with a generic “An error has occured” (sic) message. You know it’s not a typical outage when the homepage is showing you a typo. The LinkedIn… Read More
Microsoft-owned LinkedIn is laying off 6% of its employee base as fewer companies use its platform due to a reduced need for hiring amid the pandemic. The cuts affect 6%… Read More
LinkedIn CEO Ryan Roslansky — just days into his new role — apologized to staff after employees made offensive comments during a town hall event. The Microsoft-owned company hosted the… Read More
— Seattle-based Vera Whole Health appointed Karen Cooke as chief operating officer. Cooke was most recently vice president of strategic execution and transformation at Sound Physicians. She previously held health-focused… Read More
Microsoft Teams logged a new daily record of 2.7 billion total meeting minutes in a single day, on Tuesday, March 31, up 200% from 900 million meeting minutes on Monday,… Read More
Bill Gates’ 1995 book “The Road Ahead” forecast the way personal computing and the internet would change everything about life as we knew it. On Wednesday, the Microsoft co-founder was… Read More
LinkedIn plans to pull the plug next month on a Chrome browser extension that lets Gmail and GSuite users see mini LinkedIn profiles for their email correspondents in a sidebar… Read More
LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner, who guided the business-networking company through its $26.2 billion acquisition by Microsoft in 2016, says he’ll become executive chairman as of June 1 and leave the… Read More
In the leadup to its acquisition of LinkedIn in 2016, Microsoft promised to take a deliberate, hands-off approach to integrating the business social network with its own products, learning a… Read More
LinkedIn is getting into networking in the physical world for the first time, expanding on its bread-and-butter of connecting professionals digitally. The Microsoft-owned business social network unveiled a new Events… Read More
LinkedIn wants to reduce inequality among its member base by taking on the so-called “networking gap” — advantages some people have based on who they know — with a new… Read More
