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Indian Govt. and Linkedin Sign MoU to Create More Jobs For Students
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Indian Govt. and Linkedin Sign MoU to Create More Jobs For Students

Leading global professional network LinkedIn today said it has signed an agreement with the human resource development ministry to create more job opportunities for Indian students. As part of the MoU, LinkedIn's 'Placements' product will be adopted by all Indian colleges affiliated with All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), the company said in a release issued here. 'Placements' provides a level-playing field for all students, regardless of their location or college and allows them to take an online assessment test, which gives them direct access to thousands of openings in 35 top corporates in India, it added. "We're excited to work with the HRD ministry and AICTE to help students get greater access to the 'Placements' product. Our objective with 'Placements' is to ...
India 2nd Largest Market After US For LinkedIn
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India 2nd Largest Market After US For LinkedIn

IANS- Professional networking website LinkedIn on Wednesday announced that it has crossed the 100-million member mark in the Asia-Pacific region (APAC), and with 37 million members, India is its largest market in the region. Globally, India retains its spot as the second largest market after the US, a company statement said. LinkedIn has doubled its member base in the region from 50 million to 100 million in just two years. The region now represents 22 per cent of LinkedIn's global member base of over 450 million. "At this scale, LinkedIn is in an even stronger position to help members connect to economic opportunity, whether it's a new job, a promotion or other business opportunities," said Olivier Legrand, Managing Director, LinkedIn Asia Pacific and Japan, in a statement. Ch...
Microsoft Will Use Linkedin As a Facebook For Professionals: Bill Gates
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Microsoft Will Use Linkedin As a Facebook For Professionals: Bill Gates

San Francisco: Microsoft Corp. co-founder Bill Gates in an interview with Bloomberg TV’s said, "he’s enthusiastic about the company’s $26.2 billion acquisition of LinkedIn Corp., viewing it as an opportunity to build a business network for the working world like Facebook Inc. has created for social communities." Gates said in an interview with . “If we can make that as valuable as the Facebook feed in the social world, that’s huge value creation and that’ll happen over a period of years.” Users should be compelled to say: “This professional feed in LinkedIn, that is how I want to learn about my career, my company, my industry, and I’m going back there,”. The purchase is a way for Microsoft, which largely missed out on the consumer web boom dominated by the likes of Google and Face...
LinkedIn Buy Biggest Acquisition Since I Became CEO: Satya Nadella
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LinkedIn Buy Biggest Acquisition Since I Became CEO: Satya Nadella

Microsoft chief Satya Nadella today said new opportunities for monetisation will be created once integration with LinkedIn, its largest acquisition till date, is completed. The USD 26.2-billion deal, which is the largest in the history of the Redmond-based firm, will help "reinvent productivity and business processes", Satya Nadella said in an e-mail to employees. According to a presentation, the total addressable market size for Microsoft has grown to USD 315 billion, from USD 200 billion earlier. Given this is the biggest acquisition for Microsoft since I became CEO, I wanted to share with you how I think about acquisitions overall. To start, I consider if an asset will expand our opportunity ? specifically, does it expand our total addressable market?" he wrote in the e-mail to emplo...
Microsoft Acquired LinkedIn in $26 Billion Cash Deal
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Microsoft Acquired LinkedIn in $26 Billion Cash Deal

On Monday, Microsoft Corp acquired LinkedIn Corporation for $196 per share in an all-cash transaction valued at $26.2 billion, inclusive of LinkedIn’s net cash deal. LinkedIn will retain its distinct brand, culture and independence. Jeff Weiner will remain CEO of LinkedIn, reporting to Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft. Reid Hoffman, chairman of the board, co-founder and controlling shareholder of LinkedIn, and Weiner both fully support this transaction. The transaction is expected to close this calendar year. “Just as we have changed the way the world connects to opportunity, this relationship with Microsoft, and the combination of their cloud and LinkedIn’s network, now gives us a chance to also change the way the world works,” Weiner said. “For the last 13 years, we’ve been uniquely po...
Mark Zuckerberg Social Media Accounts Hacked and Hacker Claims The Password was “dadada”
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Mark Zuckerberg Social Media Accounts Hacked and Hacker Claims The Password was “dadada”

A hacking group OurMine Team has claimed responsibility for Hacking social media accounts belonging to Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg. Mark Zuckerberg’s Twitter and Pinterest accounts were hijacked by the hacker group on Sunday. “Hey @finkd, you were in Linkedin Database with the password ‘dadada’ !,” the team wrote from Zuckerberg’s Twitter page. On his Pinterest, the new title was “Hacked by OurMine Team.” Ouch. Mark Zuckerberg's social media accounts have been hacked pic.twitter.com/KvVmXOIg5s— Ben Hall (@Ben_Hall) June 5, 2016 Later the tweet was deleted from the account and the account has been seized. Zuckerberg did not tweet on his rival social network since January 2012. Hackers claimed the “dadada” password leaked through a massive data breach on Linke...
5 Indian Social Commerce Websites That Let You Confess and Share
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5 Indian Social Commerce Websites That Let You Confess and Share

Social commerce is no more a space occupied by the likes of Instagram, Snapchat and a few other influential brands like Twitter and Linkedln. In fact, the networking giants like Instagram and Snapchat have now shown way to newer social commerce startups how to attach with the audience. These below mentioned social commerce platforms let you create meaningful conversations, along with building social networks. They not just enable you to share experiences but also let you earn reward points. Sagoon - Sagoon is an online social commerce platform that facilitates an amalgamation between concepts of social network/collaboration and E-commerce. Initially incepted in 2009, it was further developed over the years, finally being officially launched in its latest avatar on November, 2015. ...
After Google & Facebook, LinkedIn Planning Its Own Version of ‘Instant Articles’
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After Google & Facebook, LinkedIn Planning Its Own Version of ‘Instant Articles’

According to the report, LinkedIn is in the process of discussing a similar product with publishers that will enable the latter to publish their stories on LinkedIn. Facebook's Instant Articles, where publishers post content directly on to Facebook instead of putting links that direct users to their websites, has been a success with both publishers and users. You can then begin publishing them. Currently Facebook and Google has the feature of instant articles that allows users to publish instant articles which means users can publish articles directly on their platform. Google also has the Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) Project, an open source initiative that is created to load content instantaneously for publishers, consumer platforms, creators and users. For Facebook, it's all pa...
Uganda to US and Fiji to France: UniversalHunt Story Without Funding
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Uganda to US and Fiji to France: UniversalHunt Story Without Funding

All of us dream of a lifestyle that is absolutely customised for us, lets us exploit our talent to the hilt and meet our aspirations. Most of very renowned platform including LinkedIn trying to do so but failed to solve the real professional network problem. But a company, running from last 8 years solved it with higher customer satisfaction rate without having large investment and big names in its portfolio, “Universalhunt.com”. “Universalhunt.com is a networking cum talent showcasing portal that provides a common platform with advanced automated searchable database – it enables its members to share talent, experiences, list their offerings and share ideas – a single platform permitting unlimited interconnectivity and sharing. Universalhunt.com overcomes inefficiency from global talen...
Here’s What LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner’s Said After Stock Loses 40% of Its Value
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Here’s What LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner’s Said After Stock Loses 40% of Its Value

In case you haven’t been paying attention, many tech stocks are under serious pressure. LinkedIn, where I have been an executive for nearly six years, is one of those companies, having lost more than 40% of our value after announcing our 2015 earnings and guidance for 2016 last Thursday. As you can imagine, this has the potential to cause angst and churn, both internally and externally, and over the last week, I’ve been fascinated by the varied reactions of people, both inside and outside the company, with whom I’ve interacted: indignant, perplexed, resilient, full of pity, inspired and shell-shocked. When something like this happens at a company, you can witness very extreme, and often negative, reactions from people like the CEO and CFO, who can get into a blame game and create a c...
The Top 10 Companies to Work for in 2016
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The Top 10 Companies to Work for in 2016

If you are a business owner, providing perks for your employees is a great way to boost morale and increase productivity. Perks like health insurance (visit this website for more information) and paid sick days are vital to keep your employees happy. If you are a small business then you obviously can't provide massive perks like multi-billion dollar businesses are about to. Every year jobs and career site Glassdoor publishes the 10 best large companies to work for, as ranked by employees. Typically, it's not hard to predict who will make the list. Benefit-happy tech companies like Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter are safe bets. Case in point: Last year, Google nabbed the top spot. This year, however, Google's place on the throne has been usurped by a dark horse candidate. In fact, in t...