“LinkedIn” on The Daily Caller

NEW YORK (AP) — Hoping to harvest some fresh cash, the online game company behind “FarmVille” said Friday that it plans to raise $1 billion in an initial public offering of up to 100 million shares. (more)

NEW YORK (AP) — Facebook might finally be laying down the groundwork for a highly anticipated initial public offering, long expected to take place sometime after April 2012. (more)

During a Monday town hall meeting hosted by LinkedIn in Mountain View, Calif., a wealthy, voluntarily unemployed audience member asked President Barack Obama: “Will you please raise my taxes?” (more)

LinkedIn Corp., the largest professional-networking website, unexpectedly reported a second- quarter profit and revenue more than doubled as it lured new members following a May initial public offering. (more)

LinkedIn’s initial public offering will go down in the record books as one of the most stunning stock debuts in recent market history, but the returns to small investors were far smaller than to the big guns. (more)

LinkedIn Corp., the largest networking website for professionals, has hired banks to advise on an initial public offering this year, according to two people familiar with the IPO plans. (more)

Facebook is in what’s called a recruiting sweet spot right now. Out of control growth in users and revenue and a nearly certain IPO run in the near future. That’s when employee growth expands at the greatest rate for a company as it grows from hundreds to thousands and then tens of thousands of employees. And with low priced private stock as currency, companies in that position can generally get anyone they want. (more)

Facebook, MySpace, Linkedin, Biznet…the list of social and business networking sites go on and on and on.  It is hard to imagine how we made it through the day just a few years back without all of these sites to write about our daily comings and goings.  How could we have gotten along without knowing that Facebook Friend X just drove across the country with her three cats and two dogs, ate in five diners and had a flat tire in South Dakota?  Or that Facebook Friend Y’s little three-year old daughter Cody just threw up on the living room couch while her two-year old brother Jackson pooped on the floor?  Life would not be the same without knowing that these events occurred. (more)

Megatrends represent major movements so powerful that the direction of change cannot be stopped. Federal laws can speed up or slow down megatrend forces. But, like dammed rivers megatrends will redirect themselves to achieve the inevitable result. Health care consumerism is such a force. (more)

The FBI and other federal agencies are going undercover on Facebook, LinkedIn, MySpace and other social networks with phony profiles to gather information and communicate with suspects, according to an internal Justice Department document. (more)

Imagine you’re at a conference and want to know something about the people around you. A new mobile application called Recognizr can identify a person’s face via your phone camera and deliver not only profile information about that person but also show you their latest status updates. (more)

In 1984, singer-songwriter Tina Turner asked “What’s Love Got to Do with It” in her breakthrough solo album. This year, political observers find themselves asking the same thing about the massive infiltration of social media into political campaigns—“What’s Social Campaigning Got to Do with It?” As we see it, the answer is pretty simple for candidates running for the U.S. Senate: the difference between winning and losing. (more)