Instagram valued at $35bn – but how does that compare to Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, LinkedIn and WhatsApp? December 19, 2014 Instagram exceeded Twitter in terms of daily users last month; now it looks like that has trickled through to its valuation. The photo-sharing app has been valued at $35bn by Citi analyst Mark May, nearly double the amount he previously estimated. Based on Twitter's current share price, it's worth just over $23bn. [...]
These are the top 25 most employable skills of 2014 (according to LinkedIn) December 17, 2014 What skills got people hired in 2014? LinkedIn has dug through its data for this year and found what gets employers salivating. Soft skills, these are not. The overarching theme is data – the top skill is statistical analysis and data mining. It crops up again at number 11, with data presentation, and then at [...]
Only connect: Social media giant LinkedIn facing class action lawsuit over privacy violation claims November 11, 2014 LinkedIn is facing a class action lawsuit after its premium “reference report” service over claims it has violated individuals' privacy. Four people are bringing the claim, citing various attempts at getting jobs which they argue may have been thwarted by LinkedIn's paid-for reference report service. The legal documents, which were filed last month, [...]
The simple ways to master your LinkedIn account September 9, 2014 Be cut-throat with previous jobs, but think before rejecting people IT’S SEPTEMBER – the back-to-school month when hiring and switching jobs always cranks up. And in London, hiring is now rising at its fastest pace since before the financial crisis. According to a new study from recruiter Manpower, staff are being taken on across all [...]
LinkedIn ordered to pay $6m as labour violation settlement August 5, 2014 LinkedIn has been ordered by the US government to pay out $6m (£3.6m) in wages and damages to its former and current employees. According to regulators, the social networking service did not take into account all the hours worked by its staff at the California, Illinois, Nebraska and New York offices. The order [...]
LinkedIn acquisitions in numbers: $175m for Bizo is biggest buy yet for cautious company July 23, 2014 LinkedIn picked up San Francisco-based b2b marketing company Bizo for $175m yesterday, the most expensive acquisition to date for the social network. In a time of regular million dollar acquisitions by other internet companies, billion dollar buys by the likes of Facebook and Google, and Apple revealing in its earnings call yesterday that it completed [...]
Three ways to get more from LinkedIn May 5, 2014 While you’ll have to put more work into your account, you can also easily monitor your success WHEN LinkedIn announced it had surpassed 15m UK members in March, the accompanying statistical breakdown put a new perspective on what passes for professional in Britain. Although the biggest UK employers represented included RBS and Lloyds, 146 chimney [...]
Weaker outlook sparks worries over LinkedIn February 6, 2014 LINKEDIN, the professional online network, announced disappointing full year revenue forecast of $2bn (£1.2bn) last night, below expectations of $2.2bn, causing shares to plummet as much as 15 per cent in after hours trading. Despite its weaker outlook LinkedIn reported solid results for the fourth quarter of 2013, with revenue increasing by 47 per cent [...]