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• LinkedIn looks back at 10 years of growth

  By Caitlin McGarry | 06 May, 2013 22:57

  LinkedIn celebrates several major milestones this week: Its 10th birthday and 225 million users. Not bad for a site that started with 4500 members and has grown into the world's largest professional social network.

• Wall Street Beat: Tech stocks jump as market indexes hit milestones

  By Marc Ferranti | 03 May, 2013 21:19

  On the back end of an earnings season that by many accounts could have been worse, tech investors appeared to be in the mood to celebrate on Friday, sending shares of IT companies higher as key stock-market indexes hit milestone highs.

• Android Play Studio hires, Google I/O 2013 lineup hint at game-filled future for Android

  By Ian Paul | 03 May, 2013 18:37

  A wide variety of games are already available for Android devices on Google Play, but several hints suggest the status quo may not be good enough for the search giant.

• EFF: Trust Twitter -- but not Apple or Verizon -- to protect your privacy

  By Tim Greene | 30 April, 2013 22:06

  Verizon and MySpace scored a zero out of a possible six stars in a test of how far 18 technology service providers will go to protect user data from government data demands.

• LinkedIn revamps contacts feature to boost relationship management

  By Juan Carlos Perez | 25 April, 2013 13:26

  LinkedIn has revamped the contacts management feature of its professional networking website and packaged the functionality into a new iOS application.

• Aussie companies adopt social media for customer service: study

  By Hafizah Osman | 15 April, 2013 10:38

  More than two-thirds (70 per cent) of Australian businesses are using the social media to deliver customer service, according to a study by consultancy and research firm, Fifth Quadrant.

• LinkedIn to buy Pulse, maker of mobile news reader app

  By Juan Carlos Perez | 11 April, 2013 21:48

  LinkedIn, the world's largest professional networking site, continues to beef up its content publishing platform with its agreement to acquire Pulse, which makes a mobile news aggregation, reader and content distribution application.

• Is Amazon working on a Kindle smartphone?

  By Matt Hamblen | 02 April, 2013 18:23

  Amazon may be building a Kindle smartphone on a custom version of Android to be launched in the second half of 2013.

• 9 social media mistakes your business must avoid

  By Christopher Null | 17 May, 2013 15:58

  Social media has been a boon for businesses small and large, but it's also becoming a minefield for those unable to manage the increasing complexities of the run-and-gun nature of the beast. On a seemingly daily basis, we suffer through one "Twitter disaster" or another. It's becoming so commonplace that "Twitter disaster" really doesn't deserve to be in quotes.

• Analytics boost social marketing efforts

  By Sandra Gittlen | 28 February, 2013 11:54

  Big-name companies including General Electric and Best Western are maturing their social marketing programs and integrating social metrics with back-end systems.

• The How-To Guide for LinkedIn

  By Kristin Burnham | 21 February, 2013 20:25

  Our LinkedIn guide delivers expert advice on the site's features, step-by-step how-to instructions, details on its apps and proper LinkedIn etiquette. Also included: tips and tricks for your job search and company analysis.

• Opinion: How do you manage your social networks?

  By Mark Gibbs | 28 January, 2013 15:18

  I recently decided, somewhat randomly, to experiment a bit more with social networking. I was on LinkedIn and at some point the service asked me if it could access my Gmail contact list.

• 11 winning alternatives to Windows 8's built-in apps

  By Alex Cocilova | 06 November, 2012 14:44

  Windows 8 comes preloaded with plenty of apps for basic productivity and entertainment, but they're not necessarily the best you can do. We've already mentioned the apps you should download first, but now we want to share some third-party apps that you might like more than what Microsoft includes in its basic Windows 8 installation.

• Technology argument 6: Facebook vs. Google+ vs. Twitter vs. LinkedIn

  By Jeff Caruso | 15 November, 2011 09:37

  Much has changed since we examined the ongoing war between Facebook and Twitter in the autumn of 2010. The stakes are higher, the competition has increased, and we see LinkedIn and Google roaring into the social networking arena like never before.

• Find the best personalised news app for iPhone, iPad

  By Joel Mathis | 05 August, 2011 06:47

  When Flipboard hit the App Store last year, the personalised news app for the iPad turned out to be a revelation. There were already plenty of Twitter clients, Facebook apps, and RSS readers available for download—there were even apps that combined those streams of information into one. But none did it quite so elegantly, creating the sensation of effortlessly flipping through the magazine. Overnight, Flipboard reinvented the category.

• The day of the password is done

  By Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols | 05 January, 2011 00:38

  When the popular Web site Gawker was hacked into recently, more than a million user IDs and passwords were released. If you were one of the people compromised that's annoying -- very annoying. Not that it's a big deal that someone could log into a gossip site under your name. But many of those people used those same IDs and passwords on other sites that are a wee bit more important, such as LinkedIn. Now, that's a problem.