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LinkedIn plunges 44%
LinkedIn's stock had its worst day ever. Shares cratered by as much as 44% in trading on Friday after the company reported a quarterly loss on Thursday, with guidance that was weaker than expected. It was the worst decline ever for the stock and has erased about $10 billion of the company's value. The social network for professionals said that it expected first-quarter adjusted earnings per share (EPS) of $0.55, but analysts had estimated $0.75, according to Bloomberg.
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LinkedIn login emails, passwords for more than 100 million users posted online for sale
More than 100 million LinkedIn users might be more vulnerable Wednesday, after their email and passwords have been uploaded online and reportedly for sale. LinkedIn issued a statement saying it is aware of the situation, but added that this is not a new data breach as the information was taken during a hack in 2012. “Yesterday, we became aware of an additional set of data that had just been released,” LinkedIn said in its statement.
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Use LinkedIn? You might want to change that password ... now
Another day, another security breach. They've almost become routine to many of us. This latest one actually happened in 2012, when LinkedIn, and later EHarmony, revealed that hackers had stolen the login info for about 6.5 million users. The new development is the revelation it actually affected over 100 million users. (Yes, that's significantly more.) And now a hacker is selling user data on the Dark Web marketplace...
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LinkedIn Called Me a White Supremacist
And all I did was happen to share a name with one. By Will Johnson.
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Mark Zuckerberg’s Twitter and Pinterest accounts hacked, LinkedIn password dump likely to blame
Facebook cofounder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg understandably has accounts on other social networks – it only makes sense to keep up with what the competition is up to. But that doesn't mean he bothers to maintain standard security practices on non-Facebook properties. This weekend, his Twitter and Pinterest accounts were hacked. The group responsible, OurMine Team, also claimed to have gained accessed to his zuck Instagram account...
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The email, data and privacy implications of Microsoft’s acquisition of LinkedIn
We all took a collective gasp when we saw the price tag of Microsoft’s acquisition of LinkedIn. Now that the dust has settled a bit, we can pause and reflect on what this means from a data, privacy and email perspective — given that all three are potential strengths, weaknesses and concerns arising from the merger of two giants. While at a conference recently, I sat down with my colleague and friend, Dennis Dayman, chief privacy officer at Return Path, and discussed how this deal could change the B2B data landscape. Here’s what he had to say.
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Microsoft’s LinkedIn acquisition approved by regulators, but there’s a catch
Microsoft is about to close the books on its $26.2 billion deal to purchase the professional social networking service LinkedIn. On Tuesday, it was announced that the European Commission had given its blessing to Microsoft, adding it to a list of regulators that approved the merger, including the U.S., Canada, Brazil, and South Africa. However, there’s a bit of a catch.
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LinkedIn: It’s illegal to scrape our website without permission
A legal scholar calls LinkedIn's position “hugely problematic.”
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How To Write Cutting Edge Content for LinkedIn
“How did you even get 250,000 people to read your article?!” This question was posed to me recently, yet awkwardly the honest response was I didn't entirely know.. Of course I had some ideas, and had managed to have articles featured again through a similar formula. Yet I'd never given huge thought to exactly how - for the most part I just wrote.
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Facebook rolls out job posts to become the blue-collar LinkedIn
LinkedIn wasn't built for low-skilled job seekers, so Facebook is barging in. Today Facebook is rolling out job posts to 40 more countries to make itself more..
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LinkedIn somehow bamboozled 100 million people into installing its Android app
Everybody these days has a LinkedIn account, but mostly out of obligation. People don't consciously want to create one like they do with Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter; they do it because it's what's expected of them. For that reason, it's somewhat surprising that LinkedIn has managed to bamboozle 100 million people (or rather, Google accounts) into downloading its app from the Play Store.
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Exclusive: U.S. accuses China of `super aggressive` spy campaign on LinkedIn
The United States' top spy catcher said Chinese espionage agencies are using fake LinkedIn accounts to try to recruit Americans with access to government and commercial secrets, and the company should shut them down.
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My friend's boss goes around every Christmas dressed like Santa and gives each employee a ham
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How Russia is using LinkedIn to harass and intimidate Putin’s U.S. critics
One night in mid-March, Alan Malcher, a British military veteran, dropped into the Queen’s Arms, a working-class pub in north London. He took a seat at the bar and ordered his customary pint of Foster’s. Within a few minutes, a stranger sidled up, ordered a drink and started a conversation. He soon brought up Russian President Vladimir Putin and began saying positive things about the Moscow-backed separatist civil war in Ukraine.
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See a job change in your future? It's never too early to plan
Being ready for a job change is smart planning, and it's never too early to start. Here are things to consider if you're planning a move (or a move is being planned for you).
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13 Awesome Professional Networking Alternatives to LinkedIn
LinkedIn may be the world’s largest professional networking site, but you can also grow your personal network with these 13 LinkedIn alternatives.
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Telling stories: how LinkedIn took on office banter
The professional platform is the latest social media site to offer a service where posts expire after 24 hours. But do we really need this kind of fleeting work-based chat?
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FBI says fraud on LinkedIn a 'significant threat' to platform and consumers
Fraudsters who target LinkedIn users in sophisticated investment schemes pose a "significant threat" to the platform, the FBI tells CNBC.
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CEO's LinkedIn crying selfie about layoffs met with backlash
"Days like today, I wish I was a business owner that was only money driven and didn't care about who he hurt along the way. But I'm not," Braden Wallake wrote.
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