Chief executive of professional networking platform blames economic conditions and need to make business more agile

Tracking your phone's gyroscope, scanning your messages and giving your data to third-party companies.

With the new Outlook integration, customers can click on an email contact's name right in their inbox then view a rich contact card that includes a link to their LinkedIn profile.

LINKEDIN is supposed to be the more “professional” of the social networking sites. The way it treats its users is anything but.

Microsoft announced Monday that it would acquire professional networking site LinkedIn for $196 per share in an all-cash transaction valued at $26.2 billion.

Microsoft will pay $196 per share for the company.

Email addresses and passwords for over 100 million LinkedIn members have been put up for sale on the Darknet by the same hacker who stole the data f-rom the site in 2012.