Indian professionals prefer home-grown technology and mobile internet companies like Directi, Flipkart and One97 Communications (Paytm) over global tech and e-commerce sites like Google and Amazon as their workplace, revealed a new LinkedIn report on Wednesday. The annual ranking highlights the 25 companies in the country that are most sought-after by professionals. The report is based on proprietary LinkedIn data and billions of actions by more than 546 million professionals […]

A growing number of hackers are targeting professionals on LinkedIn, according to security firm Symantec. Its investigation uncovered dozens of fake accounts on the social network, across a variety of industries. Posing as recruiters, the fake accounts allow hackers to map the networks of business professionals and gain the trust of those in them. The security firm has worked with LinkedIn to remove all of the fake accounts it identified. […]

Professional networking website LinkedIn has revealed 25 hottest skills that were in demand in 2014. LinkedIn analyzed the skills and experience data in over 330 million member profiles to gather the data. The LinkedIn report shows that tech skills dominated the ‘hottest skills’ list. “Across the globe, statistics and data analysis skills were highly valued. In the US, India, and France, cloud and distributed computing skills were in particularly high […]

LinkedIn has agreed to pay $6m (£3.6m) in wages and damages after regulators found it failed to account for all the hours worked by its employees. This includes $3.3m in unpaid wages and $2.5m in damages to be paid to 359 former and current employees. It also agreed to provide compliance training and distribute its policy on overtime work to all applicable staff. The firm said talent was its “number […]