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LinkedIn gets a little safer with two-step verification

Following Twitter's lead, LinkedIn introduced two-step verification as an optional security feature members can use to protect their accounts.

LinkedIn's new security measure emulates the two-step verification process of other sites and requires members to input a code, sent via SMS, when logging in from an unrecognized device for the first time.

"Most Internet accounts that become compromised are illegitimately accessed from a new or unknown computer," LinkedIn director Vicente Silveira wrote on the company blog. "When enabled, two-step verification makes it more difficult for unauthorized users to access your account, requiring them to have … Read more

Windows 8 update includes Start button (sort of)

CNET Update is high in fiber:

In this episode of Update:

- See what changes Microsoft has in store for Windows 8.1 coming later this year.

- Give your pockets some breathing room with the Samsung Galaxy S4 Mini smartphone.

- Save $70 and become a selfie master with the cheaper iPod Touch.

- Count calories with Google's new nutrition search feature.

- Share safe-for-work photos with new status updates on LinkedIn.

- Find your way to the Facebook event with Waze's latest feature.

CNET Update delivers the tech news you need in under three minutes. Watch … Read more

LinkedIn retools Web navigation to match mobile

Starting Wednesday, LinkedIn will be sporting a much sexier and simplified navigation bar inspired by the design of its just-improved mobile applications.

"Over the last year and half we've had the chance to learn quite a bit from you about the types of changes that add the most value to your daily professional life, and we've brought some of these learnings to the new navigation," LinkedIn Principal Designer Amy Parnell wrote in blog post.

The idea is to make LinkedIn's navigation menu on the Web not only nicer looking, but easier to use. The search … Read more

With Channels, LinkedIn Today funnels news into your network

LinkedIn has made over its e-zine, LinkedIn Today, with a new look and a new content discovery feature called Channels.

LinkedIn Today, first launched more than two years ago, is meant to be a digital newspaper that sums up the day's top business news. Today aggregates articles shared by the company's more than 225 million users, with each edition personalized to the reader based on his or her connections.

The new LinkedIn Today is dressed up with a more modern design, comes with more than 20 broad topic sections called Channels that members can follow, and features more … Read more

LinkedIn nurtures professional relationships with Contacts app

LinkedIn is playing personal assistant with the release of Contacts, an automated contact management service for desktop and iPhone arriving Thursday in limited release.

Contacts gives members of the professional social network a way to bring together their contacts spread across address books, email accounts, and calendar apps. The service, which comes with a companion iPhone application, also hooks into LinkedIn's desktop experience and adds a relationship module to member profiles that includes recent conversations, meetings, and personal notes.

Contacts is the first LinkedIn product to launch simultaneously on desktop and mobile, and offers members a smarter way to … Read more

LinkedIn reinvents mobile apps for daily consumption

LinkedIn today released completely overhauled versions of its applications for iPhone and Android as part of an ongoing effort to make its social network for professionals a rich, daily destination for consuming content and connecting with others.

The fresh applications, which bear little resemblance to their former versions, sport a colorful and crisp design, a reworked navigation, and personalization features all intended to make LinkedIn for iPhone or Android a vehicle for rabid consumption. The iPhone and Android apps are also now available in 15 different languages.

The underlying design principle behind the new mobile apps is that everything you … Read more

LinkedIn adds mentions, looks to strike up conversations

Mentions, a conversational feature popularized by Twitter, is making its way over to the more professional venue that is LinkedIn.

The company said today that it is adding mentions for English-speaking members to stimulate more activity on the business-centric site.

Members can now mention each other by typing a connection or company name, no symbol required, in the status update box or in the comments filed on the home page, as pictured below. Those being mentioned in a post will receive a notification about the event.

"With content sharing and engagement at all-time highs, including original contributions from the … Read more

LinkedIn unifies search to push people to content

LinkedIn today released a new unified search experience to help people dig faster, deeper, and more intelligently through its growing collection of professional content.

"We're bringing all of the goodness on LinkedIn -- people, companies, jobs, and groups -- and putting it all together in one place," Bradley Mauney, product lead for identity products at LinkedIn, told CNET.

After a year of behind-the-scenes design and engineering work, LinkedIn is now able to derive intent while you search. The site autocompletes queries to show suggestions, sorted by content type, as a person types in the new-and-improved, single search … Read more

LinkedIn tweaks Jobs tool to better tap user connections

LinkedIn has redesigned its LinkedIn Jobs tool in an effort to show job seekers positions they can actually get.

The professional social network today announced the launch of the new tool, which now showcases open positions at companies where a person has allies, or "first degree connections" in LinkedIn speak, who can get the candidate noticed.

The new jobs tool, which will be rolled out to all 200 million members over the next few weeks, also features added search and management tools. For instance, LinkedIn Jobs now lets people more deeply refine their searches for open positions with … Read more