LinkedIn Closes Service in China Amid ‘Fierce Competition’, Cuts Over 700 Jobs

LinkedIn Closes Service in China Amid ‘Fierce Competition’, Cuts Over 700 Jobs

ByNews Polite

Social networking firm LinkedIn announced Tuesday that it will close down its last service available in China, citing “fierce competition and a challenging macroeconomic climate”. Microsoft-owned LinkedIn was one of the few US technology companies to successfully operate a social media site in China, where the internet is heavily regulated…

LinkedIn Founder Reid Hoffman Leaves OpenAI’s Board Over Conflicts of Interest

LinkedIn Founder Reid Hoffman Leaves OpenAI’s Board Over Conflicts of Interest

ByNews Polite

LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman is leaving OpenAI’s board to avoid conflicts of interest as he backs more artificial intelligence companies, he said in an online post. Hoffman, who has invested in and advised the startup since its 2015 founding, said his venture capital firm Greylock is funding companies such as…

Is LinkedIn Down? Over 10,000 Users Report Issue Across Globe, Including India

Is LinkedIn Down? Over 10,000 Users Report Issue Across Globe, Including India

ByNews Polite

Thousands of users of Microsoft’s LinkedIn were impacted on Wednesday, according to outage tracking website Downdetector.com. There were over 10,000 incidents of people reporting issues with the social networking service, according to Downdetector, which tracks outages by collating status reports from a number of sources including user-submitted errors on its…