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70% of HR professionals have rejected a candidates based on online reputation information.

Microsoft released a study conducted with 2,500 consumers, HR managers and recruitment professionals in the US, UK, Germany and France, to learn more about attitudes toward online reputation and how this information can have real life consequences. The results illustrate how we, as a society, are still grappling with the intersection of privacy and online [...]

[ More ] January 30th, 2010 | 2 Comments | Posted in Internet, News |

Firms losing 1.5% of office output on networking sites: survey

Though social networking sites are really useful in terms of business uses, most of the respondents when asked to actually identify business uses for these sites could not point to a true business reason. Social networking sites, which are being touted as the next big thing by industry pundits, are impacting the office work culture [...]

[ More ] August 2nd, 2009 | 10 Comments | Posted in Internet, News |

Digital Sky Technologies invests $200M in Facebook.com

Facebook has announced that Digital Sky Technologies (DST), one of the leading internet investment groups globally with significant stakes in Eastern European and Russian internet businesses, has made a $200 million investment in Facebook in exchange for preferred stock, representing a 1.96 percent equity stake at a $10 billion valuation. In addition, DST has indicated [...]

[ More ] May 31st, 2009 | No Comments | Posted in Business, Internet, News, Venture Capital |

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