Has Rupert Murdoch Been Reading RWW? News Corp Rumored to Buy LinkedIn

The back door strategy works again....

clipped from www.readwriteweb.com Written by Richard MacManus / November 22, 2007 / 0 comments At the risk of reporting rumors (ahem), I can't resist making a note of this one. For the past couple of weeks we have been analyzing LinkedIn and comparing it to Facebook. When I say 'we', I mean Bernard Lunn. But it's a topic a few of us have written about in the past here at RWW. Bernard wrote a post at the end of last week entitled LinkedIn and The Future of Business Networking. In that post he listed ways that LinkedIn could take advantage of the relatively untapped business networking market. Has Rupert Murdoch Been Reading RWW? News Corp Rumored to Buy LinkedIn Some of the feedback on Bernard's post suggested that it's Facebook which will take advantage of business networking opportunities, moreso than LinkedIn. So at the beginning of this week, we ran a poll asking: In 6 months time, will you have more business contacts in Facebook than LinkedIn? The poll is still running (see bottom of this page)