Social Networking Industry News & Blogs

Industry News & Blogs

Bottom Line - LinkedIn's stock surges, setting the tone for social media
bottomline.msnbc.msn.com | Feb 10, 2012
Shares of professional-networking website LinkedIn surged Friday, jumping 18 percent, after the company reported quarterly sales that more than doubled and passed a major milestone, chalking up 150 million registered users worldwide. Michael Graham, an Internet analyst at Canacc …

FarmVille firm over the moon after Hasbro deal | Technology | The Guardian
www.guardian.co.uk | Feb 10, 2012
Zynga, whose games account for $445m of Facebook's $3.7bn revenue in 2011, to create FarmVille figurines with toy firm

Bango jumps 40% on Facebook deal - FT.com
www.ft.com | Feb 10, 2012
Facebook this week struck a deal with Bango, a UK mobile payments company, which analysts believe points to a future effort by the social network to step up its challenge to Apple’s App Store. After several profit warnings since it began trading on

This Week on the mediabistro.com Job Board: GlobalGrind.com, Draftfcb, Northwestern University -
socialtimes.com | Feb 10, 2012
This Week on the mediabistro.com Job Board: GlobalGrind.com, Draftfcb, Northwestern University

Two Companies Raise More Than 2 Million Dollars On Kickstarter - Loot - Portfolio.com
www.portfolio.com | Feb 10, 2012
Two companies raise $1 million on Kickstarter, pointing to the growing popularity—and power—of crowdfunding.

What 'Project Runway' Can Teach You About Business | Blog | Daily Dose | Entrepreneur.com
www.entrepreneur.com | Feb 10, 2012
Rule No. 1: Entrepreneurs who pursue their own passion can't lose sight of what makes a business successful. Two 'Project Runway All Stars'...

Kodak to Stop Selling Digital Cameras - WSJ.com
online.wsj.com | Feb 10, 2012
Eastman Kodak, which began making cameras more than a century ago, said it plans to stop making digital cameras and pocket video cameras as it focuses its consumer business on photo printing.

Does Google Hire Of Apple Exec Show Hardware Ambitions? - SVW
www.siliconvalleywatcher.com | Feb 9, 2012
Silicon Valley Watcher - Subscribe to SVW - Subscribe to SVW by email - You should follow me on Twitter here - Send me a friend request on Facebook and LinkedIn. SVW Jobs | Contact | PRWatch | MediaWatch | Guest Posts | 5yrs:Lessons & Insights | ZDNet IMHO | Fridays with Foremski Does Google Hire

To Attract Investors, Put Your Best Financial Foot Forward | Xconomy
www.xconomy.com | Feb 9, 2012
As you have read this week about the financial details of Facebook's IPO filing, you have no doubt stopped to think about---or daydream about---what your own

The Power Of Social Network Transparency | Glassdoor Blog
www.glassdoor.com | Feb 9, 2012
This ‘us against them’ thing has really gotten out of hand. We live in an ‘Occupy Everything’ world where 24/7 transparency is occasionally clipped by anonymity and the Anonymous movement to disrupt supposed social injustices while complaints of retaliation by employers trumped race for the second