Friday, February 24, 2012

LinkedIn Buys Rapportive Gmail Contact Plug-in

Professional social network LinkedIn (NASDAQ:LNKD) hasacquired startup Rapportive, which makes a browser plugin that injects contactinformation from social networks such as Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn and intoGoogle's (NASDAQ:GOOG) Gmail application. Rapportive displays Twitter tweetsand other status updates in a toolbar alongside Gmail. The app, which LinkedInwill maintain, is...

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