In my experience, LinkedIn is really a tool mostly used by recruiters, engineers/hiring managers when they are looking up a candidate before a phone-screen, and older white business men to add me for no apparent reason. My dad keeps asking me why he keeps “getting emails from LinkyDin?”, which … Read …

Waltham-based 6 River Systems made two additions to its executive team, Naresh Wignarajah and Fergal Glynn, per their LinkedIn profiles. … Former Brightcove CEO David Mendels listed two new positions on his LinkedIn account: Mendels is currently the director of WITNESS and an advisor at … Read More

A federal grand jury in California indicted the 29-year-old Nikulin in 2016 on suspicion of hacking the U.S.-based social media firms LinkedIn, Dropbox and Formspring in 2012. LinkedIn has said the case was related to a 2012 breach that might have compromised the credentials of 100 million LinkedIn … Read More

Missing a digital presence — Recruiters are researching candidates on the Internet. Set up a basic LinkedIn profile using the content from your resume. Follow companies of interest and join networking groups within LinkedIn. Your LinkedIn profile privacy settings should be open. You want recruiters to … Read More

The depth of the data that LinkedIn possesses about the world's working population also makes it possible to go a step further by narrowing down the audience to employees of a specific company. Moreover, brands can use the social network's existing Matched Audiences tool to target individuals from … Read More

Yevgeniy Nikulin, the Russian suspected in the massive 2012 LinkedIn breach, is in the US now. CNET News reporter Laura Hautala explains the significance of this rare move. 1:34 / March 30, 2018. Transcript. Transcription not available for Accused LinkedIn hacker extradited to US. Read More

A Russian man accused of orchestrating hacks of LinkedIn, Dropbox and Springform systems in 2012 is now on US soil after being extradited from the Czech Republic to San Francisco. The US Department of Justice indicted Yevgeniy Nikulin in 2016 with aggravated identity theft and computer intrusion … Read More

As you probably know, LinkedIn had a bumpy start. It didn't attract much positive attention at first. Still, though, that rough start didn't stop Microsoft from eventually buying LinkedIn for a whopping $26.2 billion. Clearly, then, your product or service doesn't need to be perfect at launch. You simply need …

The company in 2016 agreed with professional networking giant LinkedIn to swap out 3.5 million square feet of property and development rights in Mountain View and Sunnyvale to allow both tech giants to grow unimpeded. Some of that real estate and development rights were on the site around its … Read …

Mr. Nikulin was sent to the U.S. overnight, Czech Justice Ministry spokeswoman Tereza Schejbalova said Friday, nearly 18 months after he was apprehended in Prague pursuant to an international arrest warrant issued in connection with allegedly hacking U.S. internet companies LinkedIn, Dropbox and … Read More