LinkedIn adds account mapping to its Sales Navigator
Updated app helps users identify the right person at a target account.
Venturebeat this week reported that LinkedIn has released the quarterly update to its Sales Navigator application with list enhancement, account mapping, and synchronization features to help sales professionals prepare for vi... Read more
LinkedIn’s Career Explore tool helps job-seekers find new jobs based on skills
Covid-19 has had a significant impact on the economy. Unemployment is rising fast. The estimates coming from the International Labour Organization have shown that about 245 million full-time jobs have been affected.
To challenge this outcome, LinkedIn is launching a new Career Explorer tool that... Read more
LinkedIn’s Fairness Toolkit to measure fairness in AI models
LinkedIn released an open-source software library named the LinkedIn Fairness Toolkit (LiFT). The design of the toolkit enables the measurement of fairness in AI and machine learning models. LinkedIn says that LiFT can train and score the AI and machine learning models, based on biases, input in th... Read more
Google launches ‘people cards’ to compete with LinkedIn
Business cards are rarely used nowadays: all you have to do is pick up your phone, look up someone on LinkedIn and then add the person. But Google thinks it can get more convenient, especially when people don't have LinkedIn. That's why it is testing 'people cards' in the search results in India.&n... Read more
Microsoft and LinkedIn will retrain the unemployed for on-demand jobs
Microsoft and LinkedIn have agreed to offer free job training to help unemployed workers prepare to take up in-demand jobs, as unemployment .S continues to surge worldwide due to the global pandemic.
The program is straightforward; using the data from LinkedIn, it finds the most sought skills by... Read more
LinkedIn job offers could be fake and contain malware
Security threats have been found impersonating the human resource employees from Collins Aerospace and General Dynamics in a spear-phishing move, by using LinkedIn messaging. The fake human resource employees sent job-seeking individuals fraudulent offers that were filled with malicious documents, ... Read more
LinkedIn launches Virtual Events to help companies in corona time
The new Virtual Events combines LinkedIn Live with LinkedIn Events to help companies build their brand.
Virtual Events users can use LinkedIn Live to live stream to their LinkedIn page followers or participants of an event. They can use external streaming tools including Restream, Wirecast,... Read more
LinkedIn started with migration to Azure cloud
Three years after the acquisition by Microsoft, LinkedIn will migrate its workloads to the Azure cloud of its parent company. According to the company's senior VP of engineering, Mohak Shroff, the project takes several years.
Microsoft acquired LinkedIn in 2016 for 26.2 billion dollars. Since then, ... Read more
LinkedIn buys digital identity management company Drawbridge
LinkedIn has again taken over another company. It concerns the digital identity management company Drawbridge. It is unknown how much money is involved in the takeover, says Silicon Angle.
Drawbridge was founded in 2011. The company uses proprietary machine learning technology that helps companies t... Read more
LinkedIn wants to generate more interactions with new reactions
LinkedIn wants to generate more interactions on its platform, by adding new responses. It is a function that extends the ordinary 'like' with four new options. Users can now also respond to messages with icons that stand for 'celebrate', 'love', 'insightful' and 'curious'.
Reactions are being rolled... Read more