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Tyba Wants To Be The Airbnb of Recruiting
Friday, July 25, 2014 - 12:27pm | 805After deciding to launch a company, Eiso Kant learned a troubling truth: Recruitment hasn't changed much in 10 years. "The status quo is job sites like Monster.com, where you have a horrible product experience for a company where you get hundreds of applicants but few that are actually...
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LinkedIn Feared Google - But Not Facebook
Monday, April 14, 2014 - 10:37am | 555Facebook (NASDAQ: FB) may have become the world's largest social network, but that wasn't the company that concerned LinkedIn (NASDAQ: LNKD) in 2004. "I had this list of 27 vicious competitors that people just don't remember anymore," Konstantin Guericke, co-founder of LinkedIn, told Benzinga...
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Is LinkedIn's Worst Nightmare a Facebook Friend?
Tuesday, December 27, 2011 - 10:07am | 1315Keep your friends close; keep your social media friends closer. That's the hard lesson that LinkedIn (NASDAQ: LNKD) is about to learn. While the inflated stock closed Friday above its year-to-date low, the social media giant is still falling behind the ridiculous highs that it achieved during the...
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Social Media is a Party! But What Happens on Facebook Does Not Stay on Facebook
Friday, August 19, 2011 - 12:24pm | 1432Partying, life lessons, and more from one of Metro Detroit's premiere social media events. Last night, SocialMediaisaParty.com held an event in Metro Detroit (at Rosie O'Grady's in Ferndale, to be exact) in celebration of all things social media. The event, which included a panel on “The Future of...
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Yahoo (YHOO) Streamlines Operations With HotJobs Sale
Wednesday, February 3, 2010 - 6:43pm | 286The sale of Yahoo! Inc.'s (Nasdaq: YHOO) HotJobs jobs listing website to Monster Worldwide, Inc. (NYSE: MWW), the owner of Monster.com, for $225 million is part of the company's ongoing strategy of streamlining its operations. Yahoo has gone through a great deal of turmoil over the last few years...
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Monster.com (MWW) To Buy Yahoo's (YHOO) HotJobs For $225 Million
Wednesday, February 3, 2010 - 5:43pm | 87Monster Worldwide, Inc. (NYSE: MWW), owner of the Monster.com job website, announced that it will buy its Yahoo! Inc. (Nasdaq: YHOO) owned competitor, HotJobs, for $225 million in cash. Monster Worldwide and Yahoo also agreed to terms on a three year “commercial traffic agreement” that would see...