Auteur: George Anders

Poking around Reddit, I’ve come to believe, is a bit like exploring the world’s largest magazine rack. The wildly popular Internet site is divided into more than 180,000 special sections, or subreddits, that focus on everything from Argentina to zombie…

Hang out with Army officers, rappers or Redditors, and you will quickly discover that everyday English is woefully inadequate to keep up with the conversation. Decoding each subculture in its entirety could take forever, but making sense of a few favor…

Reddit doesn’t just spawn Internet memes and and attract billions of page views. The offbeat link forum
may also go down as one of the shrewdest buys in the media business.

Visit your LinkedIn home page these days, and you’ll be in for a fresh surprise every week or two. The social network’s somber old layout is gone. Instead, LinkedIn is popping forth with  articles to read, links to click, and updates about how man…

LinkedIn has done a lot the past nine years to sharpen up individual workers’ stature,  providing a handy and highly public resume format that can lead to job offers. Now the Mountain View, Calif., social network wants employers to focus on burnis…

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Imagine a world in which traditional resumes are obsolete because the best computer programmers, graphic designers, biologists — and other highly skilled professionals — can be spotted more reliably by studying their stream of postings on social netw…

Facebook has been catching heat for hiring Frank Gehry to reshape its Menlo Park, Calif., headquarters. Investors don’t like the bravado of signing a world-famous architect while Facebook’s stock keeps skidding. What’s more alarming is Gehry’s actual m…

Peek inside the toolkit of a modern-day CEO or other C-level executive — and it’s rare to find an active Twitter account. At most big companies, the microblogging site is seen as the domain of pop stars, narcissists and disgruntled customers. Unless y…

One of Facebook’s earliest backers, director Peter Thiel, has sold so much of his stock that it doesn’t make sense for him to remain on the board.