Yahoo lights up LinkedIn, Yelp in search results

Date August 1, 2008

The Yahoo Local SearchMonkey application can shed more light on results involving local businesses.

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Yahoo has begun using its SearchMonkey technology by default to give more prominence and potentially usefulness to search results involving LinkedIn contacts, Yelp reviews of businesses, and local companies.

Most of Yahoo’s search results are a plain, textual list of Web sites. [...]

The numbers are in: social networking surges again in the US

Date July 17, 2008

The latest numbers are in, and they’re showing that June was a big month for at least two of the top social networking Most-Networked-Executives sites. According to Nielsen Online, Facebook swelled to 29.2M unique visitors in the US, up more than 10 percent from May. Meanwhile, professional social networking site LinkedIn grew more than [...]

LinkedIn Gets Its Billion Dollar Valuation

Date June 18, 2008

LinkedIn has raised $53 million from Bain Capital Ventures giving the company a $1 billion valuation. The company has experienced massive growth over the past year. 319 percent to be exact according to statistics released in April. While the company is a fraction of the size of Facebook, the company has an extremely targeted user [...]