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  Social media bring business, but add security quagmire

  Social media - Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google+ and so forth - has become a way of life for companies and their employees to interact with the public, but beating back the fraudsters that try to prey on customers, not to mention keeping employees from spilling sensitive data, is becoming a full-time job for many.

  By Ellen Messmer | 18 May, 2012 04:27

  Tags: unified communications, twitter, social networking, social media, security, quantum, NGFW, networking, LinkedIn, Internet-based applications and services, internet, Google, firewall, Facebook, DARPA

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  Wall Street Beat: Tech earnings continue to be mixed

  As the earnings season wanes, quarterly financial reports from the tech sector continue to be mixed, though shares in IT companies are still up for the year.

  By Marc Ferranti | 05 May, 2012 02:40

  Tags: yelp, mergers and acquisitions, LinkedIn, business issues

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  LinkedIn tp buy SlideShare for $119M

  LinkedIn is acquiring SlideShare, which allows its users to share presentations online, for US$118.75 million as it tries to find new ways to make its site more useful, the company said on Thursday.

  By Mikael Ricknäs | 04 May, 2012 22:28

  Tags: social networking, SlideShare, mergers and acquisitions, LinkedIn, Internet-based applications and services, internet, business issues

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  IT execs must deal soon with worker use of social tools

  ORLANDO -- IT execs are forever concerned about the growing number of gadgets workers are bringing from home for use in the enterprise.

  By Sharon Gaudin | 30 March, 2012 00:40

  Tags: Facebook, Google, internet, LinkedIn, Microsoft, Mobile and Wireless, twitter, Web 2.0 and Web Apps

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  Internet resumes discourage big lies

  People are less likely to lie about big things on resumes they post on the professional network LinkedIn compared with traditional resumes, according to a new study.

  By AAP | 15 March, 2012 13:05

  Tags: careers, Cornell University, LinkedIn, social networking

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  Get Hadoop certified ... fast

  IT professionals are scrambling to get trained and certified in what's expected to be the hottest new high-tech skill for 2012: Hadoop.

  By Carolyn Duffy Marsan | 07 March, 2012 00:27

  Tags: application development, applications, Big Data, careers, cloudera, Configuration / maintenance, data base, Data Center, data management, ebay, Facebook, hadoop, hardware systems, IBM, informatica, infrastructure management, it management, LinkedIn, management, networking, programming, software, Yahoo

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  Wall Street Beat: Yelp IPO another sign of hot tech market

  Earnings season has essentially ended, but Yelp's initial public offering Friday, Apple's record high share price and a strong market for IT stocks are giving tech investors plenty to get excited about.

  By Marc Ferranti | 03 March, 2012 03:57

  Tags: Apple, business issues, Imperva, InvenSense, Jive Software, LinkedIn, Tangoe, yelp

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  Former Packeteer head has new networking startup

  Former Packeteer CEO Craig Elliott has a cloud-based startup in stealth mode called Pertino Networks that is promising to "reinvent networking" by delivering "big IT capabilities in minutes with revolutionary simplicity, security and flexibility."

  By Brandon Butler | 01 March, 2012 07:46

  Tags: Apple, blue coat, Blue Coat Systems, cloud, cloud computing, internet, LinkedIn, packeteer, Stanford University, Startup

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  Wall Street Beat: Facebook rides wave of tech, Internet IPOs

  Facebook may end up being the biggest name on the IPO calendar this year, but it's also part of a trend in which technology, and particularly Internet companies, are outpacing public offerings from businesses in other sectors.

  By Marc Ferranti | 03 February, 2012 10:38

  Tags: AVG Technologies, Bankrate, business issues, Facebook, financial results, Groupon, LinkedIn, Zynga

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  Before Facebook: How other recent dot-com IPOs have fared

  Although Facebook (FB - to be traded on NASDAQ or NYSE) is by far the most high-profile dot-com company to go public over the past year, it is actually one of several companies that have led to a revival of web company IPOs. And while many dot-com IPOs have been long on hype, they haven't yet paid off in terms of shareholder value.

  By Brad Reed | 03 February, 2012 09:33

  Tags: applications, collaboration, Facebook, Google, initial public offerings, internet, Internet-based applications and services, IPOs, LinkedIn, networking, social media, software, unified communications, web 2.0

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  Phoney iPads, iPhones put Apple engineers' trustworthiness to test

  One way Apple keeps details of anticipated products such as the iPad 3 or iPhone 5 under wraps is reportedly by ensuring its engineers are super trustworthy.

  By Bob Brown | 31 January, 2012 07:45

  Tags: Apple, Apple iPad3, Apple iPhone 5, consumer electronics, Inside Apple, LinkedIn, networking, smartphones, wireless

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  Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Bank of America team to wipe out phishing

  Can industry heavyweights Google, PayPal, Microsoft and AOL -- along with 11 others in high-tech such as Facebook and LinkedIn, as well as the financial world's Bank of America and Fidelity Investments -- succeed in stopping phishing attacks right in their tracks? In uniting behind an effort called DMARC.org unveiled today, the group says it can through policy-based steps filter out spoofed email that attackers use for phishing.

  By Ellen Messmer | 31 January, 2012 00:36

  Tags: anti-malware, AOL, Bank of America, DMARC, DMARC.org, Facebook, Google, LinkedIn, Microsoft, paypal, security

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  LinkedIn open sources search engine

  Joining its fellow social-networking companies in the public release of internal code, LinkedIn has opened sourced software obtained in October with its acquisition of the IndexTank search-engine software provider.

  By Joab Jackson | 23 December, 2011 03:47

  Tags: internet, LinkedIn, open source, search engines, software

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  Wall Street Beat: IPOs, M&A, chip news stir tech optimism

  Zynga's initial public offering Friday, a raft of acquisition announcements this week from IBM, Salesforce and others, and some upbeat reports on the chip and hardware sector are putting a positive spin on year-end news for the tech sector.

  By Marc Ferranti | 17 December, 2011 04:15

  Tags: business issues, Components, Demandtec, Emptoris, Facebook, Groupon, hardware systems, IBM, IDC, Jive Software, Lam Research, LinkedIn, memory, mergers and acquisitions, Novellus Systems, personnel, processors, research in motion, restructuring, salesforce, tablets, Zynga

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  Zoho guns for Salesforce.com with major upgrade to its SaaS CRM software

  Zoho unveiled a significant upgrade to its on-demand CRM (customer relationship management) software on Thursday with new features including an overhauled user interface and an integration with LinkedIn.

  By Chris Kanaracus | 16 December, 2011 06:37

  Tags: applications, cloud computing, customer relationship management, internet, Internet-based applications and services, LinkedIn, salesforce.com, software, zoho