Employment

We’re thrilled to introduce a new way for professionals to access LinkedIn & LinkedIn Today ‘s top industry news in Flipboard’s iPad app starting today. The new app includes what your friends and colleagues are sharing on LinkedIn, as well as top industry news from LinkedIn Today. Get Flipboard for the iPad Now! We’ve been pleased with the tremendous user response to our recent social news product LinkedIn Today. We’re seeing professionals across industries — ranging from the Food and Beverage, Legal, or Internet sectors — come to LinkedIn everyday to stay updated on the top news their peers are reading and sharing on LinkedIn and Twitter. With LinkedIn Today now on Flipboard, we believe staying up to speed on business news will be more efficient and delightful than ever on the iPad. Click to view slideshow. What’s New? Connect your LinkedIn account with Flipboard to access these features as part of the newly redesigned business magazine section in Flipboard: Find out what articles...

Millions of professionals use LinkedIn Groups to connect and share insights with like-minded professionals every day. With almost one million groups on LinkedIn, the top request we receive from group owners is to provide new ways to enable engagement within their communities. With that goal in mind, we’re announcing today that application developers can now take the rich content and engagement of LinkedIn Groups across the professional web using the new LinkedIn Groups API. Explore the LinkedIn Groups API Professional Engagement Anytime, Anywhere Developers can bring the insights and powerful networking tools in LinkedIn Groups directly to professional applications. Whether building tools to help professionals keep in touch with their communities, enhancing organization websites, or creating mobile apps for special events, we think LinkedIn Groups are a key lever for developers to drive rich, professional conversation and networking within tools that our members use. The Groups API wil...

LinkedIn Founder (and top startup investor and PayPal mafia don) Reid Hoffman just gave an interview to the Journal . Most of it is boilerplate -- for example he looks to invest in product visionaries who build products that can have massive scale -- but the funny part was when he said that the most successful startups tap one of the seven deadly sins. So when it comes to social startups, "Facebook is ego. Zynga is sloth. LinkedIn is greed." He doesn't mean it in a bad way. He adds: "Zynga is about fun. Fun is important. Fun is good. And to have the ability to do something fun for 10 or 15 minutes that's right at your fingertips and involves your friends, well, that's better than television in terms of social connectivity. With LinkedIn it's taking control of your economic destiny and improving how you operate as a professional and how you can develop a competitive advantage. These are fundamentals for having a fulfilling quality of life." And he...