When Microsoft completes its acquisition of LinkedIn in a few months' time, the economic graph will gain access to the data gleaned from the 1.2 billion Microsoft Office users worldwide.

Linkedin's engineering director Asif Makhani and principal engineer Sriram Sankar explained in a blog post how Galene is also supposed to turn search on its head with a "people-centric" approach ...

LinkedIn recently published how LIquid, its graph database, automates the indexing and real-time access of all connections to members, schools, skills, companies, positions, jobs, events, etc. This kn ...

Catherine Rampell, economics reporter, The New York Times: The chart above is an updated version of one that Joshua Lehner, an economist at the Oregon Office of Economic Analysis, posted last year.

By Peter Onear August 14, 2007 I recently heard a university president say that somehow she had become the de facto leader of economic development in the region around her university.