Elon says Twitter/X will challenge YouTube and LinkedIn
Executives at X, the social media site formerly known as Twitter, said they see YouTube and LinkedIn as future competitors while pursuing new business lines in video and hiring.
Owner Elon Musk and chief executive officer Linda Yaccarino...
LinkedIn sheds another 668 jobs
Microsoft Corp.’s LinkedIn is cutting about 668 roles across its engineering, product, talent and finance teams.
These are the second such cuts this year as fewer companies use the hiring platform and corporate social network.
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TikTok challenging Facebook in South Africa
The “Big Five” social media platforms in South Africa have been shaken up as TikTok leaps past Instagram into second place and challenges the dominant social network, Facebook, in several segments.
This is one of the key findings of the South African...
LinkedIn will let AI write cover letters for job-seekers
LinkedIn is testing a new generative artificial intelligence (AI) feature for its platform to let job hunters create briefs and cover letter-like messages to send hiring managers.
The AI-powered generator is starting to roll out to...
Top tech companies to work for in South Africa
LinkedIn's sixth annual Top Companies list revealed that the top-ranked company through which to grow your career in South Africa is Standard Bank.
The top five tech-related companies in South Africa are dominated by banking organisations, except...
5 important things happening in tech today
Elon Musk expects 500,000 Starlink subscribers within a year and says the project could cost up to $30 billion in total.
Russian hackers had undetected access to Denmark's Central bank for up to 6 months.
Zoom will be partnering with an AI company...
Reddit and LinkedIn caught reading iPhone clipboard data
The release of the first iOS 14 beta for Apple's iPhone range has brought with it a range of new security features.
One of these is a notification for when applications attempt to read data from the user's clipboard - the memory...
The biggest mistakes you can make with your LinkedIn profile picture
Former LinkedIn employee Koka Sexton has provided insight into what makes a terrible profile picture for the professional networking site.
Secretly tell companies you are looking for a new job
LinkedIn has made it possible for you to privately tell recruiters you’re open to new job opportunities.
As any good netizen, I have been using "plus addresses" for some time, and it's always interesting to see which dodgy companies buy and sell email addresses online.
Today I received an invitation to the "DSTV Delicious International Food & Music Festival" from the Spam Agency Scatterlings /...
If LinkedIn died, most of its users wouldn’t care
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has explained the rationale behind the tech company’s plans to buy LinkedIn for US$26.2 billion.
Disclaimer after writing: sorry if this reads like an advertorial for LinkedIn, but it's actually just me sharing something with you that I feel passionate about because it's definitely changed my life for the better. I'd honestly been pretty sceptical about LinkedIn myself, just seeing it like...
Over 100 million LinkedIn accounts compromised
The account data of 117 million LinkedIn users, which includes emails and passwords, is being sold online.
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It works the same way as the Facebook sharing option - simply click on the LinkedIn button above the headline image of an article, or at the bottom of the article below...
LinkedIn targets the Middle East
Career networking website LinkedIn has launched an Arabic version targeting the Middle East’s majority youth population
Twitter, LinkedIn on the up
LinkedIn maintained its perfect record of pleasant surprises as the online professional networking service expanded its reach during the fourth quarter
Most popular social platforms in South Africa
A new report from We Are Social reveals how popular services such as WhatsApp, Facebook, and Twitter are in South Africa