2008 Social Industry Predictions

Tuesday, December 11th, 2007

It's a little early, but we wanted to get a jump on the competition. Here are the Deft Labs social tech predictions for 2008: Social Networks We don't believe there will be the massive rush to develop applications for LinkedIn. We think recruiting, consulting and contact management applications will have a lot ...

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News Corp and LinkedIn - What’s the deal?

Wednesday, November 28th, 2007

There is a hot rumor going around that News Corp is working on a deal to acquire LinkedIn. We're going to dig into this match :-) Rumors and Theories VentureBeat believes that News Corp is interested in LinkedIn to bolster the declining Wall Street Journal classifieds business. We think this might be ...

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