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LinkedIn is announcing a new milestone today. On its company blog, the social networking service for professionals revealed that it has reached 200 million users worldwide, with representations across 200 countries and over 19 languages supported. Breaking the down the numbers, LinkedIn posted an infographic showing the active number of users per country. U.S. has the biggest numbers of users, around 74 million, while U.K. has 11 million. Canada has 7 million users, India has 18 million users, and Brazil has a total number of 11 users. (more…)

By Ubergizmo. Related articles: Hotel Offers ‘Dedicated’ Social Media Butler To Post On Your Behalf, Google+ Now Supports Pan And Zoom On Photos,

Pitching itself as the first trade alliance to represent the concerns of the online economy, the Internet Association lobbying group has just confirmed its member companies and policy platform. As suspected Amazon, Facebook, eBay, and Google are joined by other large tech firms, under the leadership of Capitol Hill advisor Michael Beckerman, to form the umbrella public policy organization. Citing its three main areas of focus as protecting internet freedom, fostering innovation and economic growth, and empowering users, the Internet Association will represent regulatory and political interests of its member companies, and their employees. There is no word on what the first freedom or innovation to benefit from the associations collaborative-clout will be, but while we wait to find out, you can lobby on the source link for the Mission- and Purpose-statement containing press release.

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Following the hapless security infraction that LinkedIn experienced two months ago, the company is now saying that it has spent a huge amount of money to fix the problem. Fresh from its earnings call today, LinkedIn CFO Steve Sordello said that the company has spent between $500,000 and $1 million on forensic work after 6.5 million LinkedIn hashed passwords were leaked and posted on a hacking site in Russia early in June.

Sordello said that the company will continue to invest more on security and added that ongoing efforts to protect members should add $2 million to $3 million in costs in the current quarter. LinkedIn also announced its second quarter financial results that ended last June 30. In spite of the mishap, the company announced that the revenue for the second quarter was $228.2 million, an increase of 89 percent compared to $121.0 million in the second quarter of 2011. However, the company’s net income for the second quarter this year was only $2.8 million, compared to its net income of $4.5 million for the second quarter in 2011.

By Ubergizmo. Related articles: Android tablet gaining share, thanks to low-cost devices [study], Skype boosts Xbox division quarter by 20%,

Just yesterday one tiny chunk of the taking apart of the once-titanic social networking site Digg was leaked with a $500k price tag – today it seems that this is only one piece of the puzzle. This sale took place, according to TechCrunch in three waves, not just one. The first is said to have taken part some time before yesterdays deal with the Washington Post purchasing nearly the entirety of the staff that up until recently ran Digg and its many web-based ins and outs.

The Washington Post deal has been reported by the same source speaking above as costing $12 million for the news business. In addition, it seems that LinkedIn has purchased approximately 15 different patents from Digg, one of which is the infamous “click a button to vote up a story” patent. These patents are said to have cost LinkedIn between $3.75 and $4 million USD.

Finally there’s Betaworks, a group which does indeed seem to have purchased everything of Digg’s that was left after the Washington Post and LinkedIn were done with it. This deal is still being reported as having gone down for around $500,000 USD, and includes everything that was listed in the initial leak from yesterday – CEO switching and all. Have a peek at our timeline of recent Digg stories that have led up to this absurd cut up and serve situation we’re seeing today.

Digg sale splits the company three ways for $16m total is written by Chris Burns & originally posted on SlashGear.
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After a lovely hand-holding two years of partnership between the two, LinkedIn and Twitter will no longer be working with one-another. Twitter has cut off tweets on LinedIn this week and LinkedIn will no longer have the option to have Tweets shared directly through their site from a user’s control panel. This move is part of a set of actions pushed by Twitter to increase the strictness of their requirements for developers using their API to make their own custom apps.

Where before you’d have been able to sync LinkedIn and Twitter with the click of a button, you’ll now have to seek out 3rd party apps. In a blog post today, Ryan Roslansky, LinkedIn head of content, wrote the following.

“If you had previously synced your LinkedIn and Twitter accounts, and selected the option to share Tweets on LinkedIn, those Tweets generated from Twitter will no longer appear on LinkedIn. There will be no other changes to your LinkedIn experience.” – Roslansky

Twitter will this year be increasing its enforcement of its so-called “Developer Rules of the Road” and will be doubling down on keeping their brand consistent across the web. Twitter product manager Michael Sippy added in a blog post about developer upgrades in the near future:

“We’re building tools for publishers and investing more and more in our own apps to ensure that you have a great experience everywhere you experience Twitter, no matter what device you’re using. … Ultimately, we want to make sure that the Twitter experience is straightforward and easy to understand — whether you’re on Twitter.com or elsewhere on the web.” – Sippey

Twitter cuts ties with LinkedIn after 2-year partnership is written by Chris Burns & originally posted on SlashGear.
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