Posts Tagged with ‘professional’

If you’ve been following Yahoo! developments as of late - including the company’s bout with a US Congressional panel earlier this week concerning its collaboration with Chinese authorities in nabbing reporter/dissident Shi Tao, who was sentenced to 10 years imprisonment as a result – you might have been surprised about its announcement Tuesday of a preview release of a new college-student-and-alumni-specific professional networking website, dubbed Yahoo! Kickstart.
I myself am puzzled about the debut, particularly as it means Yahoo! [...]

The latest issue of Newsweek features an interview by Steven Levy with LinkedIn CEO Dan Nye . Apart from being a standard Q&A, filled with talk about the meaning and status of the company, it shed some light on a question many have asked the heads of various online social networking institutions in weeks past. The question being: Sale or IPO?
If you wish to know Nye’s answer to the question (which came thanks Levy’s persistence on the subject), it’s [...]

Recently, one of Profy’s contributors, bel3bel, wrote up a review of OpenBC. Monday morning, Om Malik, one of the most respected names in tech journalism today, uncovered a piece of news that I thought would add something extra to the original post here at Profy: The first ever IPO from a Web 2.0 company will be issued in the near future.
This could be big, or it could sink fast. XING is the name of the outfit, previously known as [...]