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LinkedIn hits billion-dollar valuation
News The site currently has 23 million members, small compared with Facebook or MySpace. Business-networking site LinkedIn announced on Tuesday evening it had netted $53m in a Series D funding round led by Bain Capital Ventures and with participation... [18 Jun 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 09.05.08
Round-Up deal fell through, Ballmer and co started sniffing around Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to see if he was interested in selling the $15bn-rated social networking site. Call it a miserable old cynic but The Round-Up's guessing the government won't... [09 May 2008]
Editor's Blog: My Freecycle identity crisis
Comment Facebook works because you have to use your own identity with a real name and real photos. Simply - I don't want to have someone who calls themselves doomwarrior666 coming round my house at the weekend to pick up a bed. [01 Apr 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 28.03.08
Round-Up Fancy checking your emails or updating your Facebook profile at speeds above 320kmph? Planes, trains and automobiles - the title of an amusing comedy flick starring Steve Martin is also a neat segue into the Round-Up's opening gambit, after a week... [28 Mar 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 14.03.08
Round-Up Social networking and advertising is big business these days, just look at Microsoft's $250m investment in the $15bn-valued Facebook. This reinvention has been done mostly through acquisitions - around $1bn was spent last year trying to consolidate... [14 Mar 2008]
'Generation Facebook' IT skills wasted at work
News Tony Speakman, regional manager northern Europe at FileMaker, told silicon.com: "The generation of people coming into the workplace now have had technology round them all of their lives, so whether it's Facebook or whether it's MSN or what it... [03 Mar 2008]
Podcast: The Weekly Round-Up 29.02.08
Round-Up Podcast Dressing to impress at the office, email assassinations and the decline of the mighty Facebook are all discussed in the silicon.com weekly podcast. Andy McCue hosts and is joined in the studio by Tim Ferguson and Nick Heath. [29 Feb 2008]
Mobiles on the moon, Google Android, Facebook fall
News Facebook suffers from social networking slowdown Another story that was big news on silicon.com this month is a report suggesting the UK may be falling out of love with Facebook. But before jetting off for Spanish shores, Natasha hit the phones to... [28 Feb 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 22.02.08
Round-Up Is the Facebook love affair over? This is not necessarily unexpected given Facebook's meteoric rise, although technically speaking, meteors fall crashing to the ground and don't rise. So is this the beginning of the end for Facebook or just a... [22 Feb 2008]
Podcast: The Weekly Round-Up 22.02.08
Round-Up Podcast Techno addicts, retro computers, gadgets you couldn't live without and chocolatey Facebook is all discussed in this week's Weekly Round-Up podcast. Andy McCue hosts and is joined in the studio by Tim Ferguson, Julian Goldsmith and Bethan Jones. [22 Feb 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 18.01.08
Round-Up What we really need is a Facebook Feng Shui app. Anyway, Facebook: good for sheep and zombies, bad for productivity. By and large, silicon.com’s CIO Jury is less than impressed with Facebook's potential for corporate networking. [18 Jan 2008]
Podcast: The End of Year Weekly Round-Up 21.12.07
Round-Up Podcast Facebook stalking, iPhone hype and HMRC icebergs and sleepless nights are all discussed in the End of Year Weekly Round-Up podcast. Andy McCue hosts and is joined in the studio by Natasha Lomas, Julian Goldsmith and Tim Ferguson. [21 Dec 2007]
The Weekly Round-Up: 14.12.07
Round-Up While the Round-Up would admit to being at least semi-obsessive about its Facebook account, it is also aware the business is riding the crest of the web 2.0 wave and doesn't want to look as it approaches the rocky shore of reality. [14 Dec 2007]
Steve Jobs top of the Power pops
News Mark Zuckerberg Facebook Apple co-founder and chief executive Steve Jobs has topped a list of the 25 most powerful business people in the world. Jobs took the top spot in Fortune magazine's Power 25 for 2007, for having "twice altered the direction... [29 Nov 2007]
Podcast: The Weekly Round-Up 02.11.07
Round-Up Podcast The end of cash, the BBC's iPlayer, Cliff Richard goes download and Facebook for the over-50s are all discussed in the latest Weekly Round-Up podcast. Steve Ranger hosts and is joined in the studio by Julian Goldsmith, Natasha Lomas and Tim Ferguson. [02 Nov 2007]
