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• ​LinkedIn connections: Trade secret or a good idea?

  Do employers have rights in relation to contacts built up on the popular corporate social media site?

• Credentials the new ‘currency for careers’

  Deakin University is lauding ‘digital badges’ and ‘credentialing’ as alternatives to traditional education models, following a new agreement with US company, Credly.
  

• Downloading your LinkedIn contacts can now take all weekend

  LinkedIn users now have to wait up to three days if they want a list of their contacts on the service.

• Biggest tech industry layoffs of 2015, so far

  While the United States unemployment rate has hit a post-recession low, the network and computing industry has not been without significant layoffs so far in 2015.

• Get your vendor's A team

  Salespeople peddle the best-case scenario. When you're shopping for systems integration, outsourcing or other complex services, the salespeople will typically assure you that service delivery will be outstanding. They promise that the transition will be completed smoothly by a top-notch implementation team and that ongoing support will be provided by an equally talented operations team. They may well mean what they say, but the sad truth is that not every client can get the A team; somebody has to get the B team or in some cases, the C team.

• LinkedIn says private bug bounty program works for it better

  LinkedIn plans to continue closely vetting researchers for its bug bounty rewards program, saying it reduces the number of distracting erroneous and irrelevant reports.

• LinkedIn Pulse mobile app gets smarter news streams

  LinkedIn has released a redesigned version of its Pulse mobile app for Android and iOS that aims to deliver more personalised streams of news to its users.

• LinkedIn extends Sales Navigator with Dynamics CRM integration

  LinkedIn added Salesforce CRM integration to its Sales Navigator tool last fall, and on Thursday it went a step further by adding ties to Microsoft Dynamics CRM.

• How marketers can seize the mobile moment

  Marketers and advertisers shudder when they think about the great consumer rush to mobile. With a smartphone's tiny screen and a mobile consumer's fleeting attention span, marketers face an enormous challenge capitalizing on mobility.

• LinkedIn survey details 'new norms at work'

  A new survey of 15,000 LinkedIn users with fulltime jobs, 1,000 of which reside in the United States, draws some interesting conclusions while also reinforcing common perceptions about the "new norms" within the modern U.S. workplace.

• Talking SMAC: Revisiting social, mobile, analytics and cloud

  While SMAC (social, mobile, analytics and cloud ) concept crystalized only in the past couple of years, buy this new area in data warehousing and data analytics has been growing -- and improving -- every day.

• The Upload: Your tech news briefing for Friday, May 1

  Oracle shrugs off Salesforce rumors...House OKs plan to stop NSA phone dragnet...why Ford's CEO is wary of Apple and Google

• Everest avalanche kills privacy-focused Google engineer, Dan Fredinburg

  Dan Fredinburg, an engineer who worked on many of Google's most exciting projects during his 8 years with the company, died over the weekend in an avalanche on Mount Everest triggered by Nepal's devastating earthquake</a>.

• LinkedIn buys training site Lynda.com, enters professional development market

  LinkedIn is acquiring online learning company lynda.com for US$1.5 billion in cash and stock, the social networking site announced Thursday.

• LinkedIn buys social knowledge startup Refresh

  In a move that could yield even more automated suggestions and tips for LinkedIn users, the professional network has acquired California startup Refresh, the maker of an app that gathers news and insights about participants in meetings.