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One reason I like LinkedIn Corp. more than the other Internet-stock IPOs of 2011 is that the company has a no-nonsense approach to financial reporting.

We did a search on LinkedIn for Google, using "past company" as a filter. From there we tracked down where all the former Googlers are landing.

During an official presentation company officials said PEOPLExpress will travel to Pittsburgh, Providence, R.I., Orlando and West Palm Beach , Fla.

The professional networking space has been heating up over the last few years, with a number of players vying for control of our digital resumes, job and employment searches, and career buildings.

JOSEPH TUROW'S invaluable The Daily You is a warning about the impact of the " Web 3.0 " revolution - though he doesn't use the term - on individual freedom and privacy.

"The story itself is a great one. You continue to see shares gains and margin expansion, but I think the stock is trading six times its 2013 revenues," he said.

Helping people work online, Zoho today announced it has integrated Zoho Recruit with LinkedIn , theA popular social network for professionals.

From investors, to investment banks, to employees, everyone appears to be excited about Facebook's I.P.O. How could you not be? But one Wall Street group is saying not so fast: private exchanges.

A few years ago while looking for work, Bryan Webb stumbled across a sales job opening for a company in Ontario, Canada, that he knew little about.

With unemployment rates still high and competition for jobs as fierce as ever, LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman and entrepreneur/author Ben Casnocha show you how to manage your career in today's uncertain job market.

Every week, Mountain View makes news with technology developments, discoveries and sometimes controversies.

LinkedIn Corp.'s shares soared nearly 17 percent Friday, the biggest one-day gain since the online professional networking service's stock market debut last May.

Alcatel-Lucent A shares are down trading after reporting fiscal year 2011 profit of 1.1 billion pound compared with a 334 million pound loss in 2010.A It is also targeting an additional 500 million pounds of cost savings in the coming year.

LinkedIn last night took what analyst Michael Graham of Canaccord Genuity called "another step on the path toward becoming the default global hiring solution" when it released a very strong earnings report that throttled Wall Street's expectations.

On the commodities front, Oil fell to $99.01 a barrel. Precious metals were also down, with Gold falling to $1,721.50 an ounce while Silver fell 1.30% to settle at $33.48. 1) Greece.

Shares of LinkedIn, the biggest professional-networking website, rose the most since its IPO in May after it reported quarterly sales that more than doubled and forecast higher 2012 revenue, buoyed by advertising and subscriptions.

Shares of Electronic Arts declined 3.4 percent early Friday.A The video game publisher was downgraded to neutral at Macquarie, and also received a price target cut from $25 to $18.A Activision Blizzard Inc.

Dow Jones: -0.69% S & P 500: -0.69% NASDAQ: -0.80% US stocks ended the day down, handing back some of the gains made since the start of the year.

LinkedIn -- started in the living room of ex-PayPal executive Reid Hoffman in 2002 and officially launched in May 2003 -- is similar to Facebook in trying to connect people with each other but is much smaller and geared towards professionals.

LinkedIn offers several features free of charge, but many job seekers barely scratch the surface when using the site to build their profile LinkedIn is a networker's dream: an easy way to learn about, and reach out to, millions of businesspeople and thousands of employers.