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• Facebook seeks new CIO

  Facebook is searching for a new CIO following the announcement Timothy Campos would be leaving the role after nearly six years.

• LinkedIn Students app helps graduates get gigs

  Students and recent graduates are LinkedIn's fastest growing audience, and the company this week released a new app that's designed to ease the post-college job search process.

• The CIO's secret to great conversations

  Don’t be surprised when you start to see two or three degrees of separation delivering unexpected, positive outcomes in your life.

• 7 tips to becoming a successful CISO

  Todd Bell looks back at his years in the security industry and offers up these seven tactics that will help you stay atop the field.

• Downloading your LinkedIn contacts can now take all weekend

  LinkedIn users now have to wait up to three days if they want a list of their contacts on the service.

• Biggest tech industry layoffs of 2015, so far

  While the United States unemployment rate has hit a post-recession low, the network and computing industry has not been without significant layoffs so far in 2015.

• Ways to recruit - and retain - top digital talent

  It’s time to disrupt your company’s talent management strategy, says Forrester.
  
  

• LinkedIn says private bug bounty program works for it better

  LinkedIn plans to continue closely vetting researchers for its bug bounty rewards program, saying it reduces the number of distracting erroneous and irrelevant reports.

• LinkedIn extends Sales Navigator with Dynamics CRM integration

  LinkedIn added Salesforce CRM integration to its Sales Navigator tool last fall, and on Thursday it went a step further by adding ties to Microsoft Dynamics CRM.

• LinkedIn survey details 'new norms at work'

  A new survey of 15,000 LinkedIn users with fulltime jobs, 1,000 of which reside in the United States, draws some interesting conclusions while also reinforcing common perceptions about the "new norms" within the modern U.S. workplace.

• Talking SMAC: Revisiting social, mobile, analytics and cloud

  While SMAC (social, mobile, analytics and cloud ) concept crystalized only in the past couple of years, buy this new area in data warehousing and data analytics has been growing -- and improving -- every day.

• The Upload: Your tech news briefing for Friday, May 1

  Oracle shrugs off Salesforce rumors...House OKs plan to stop NSA phone dragnet...why Ford's CEO is wary of Apple and Google

• Everest avalanche kills privacy-focused Google engineer, Dan Fredinburg

  Dan Fredinburg, an engineer who worked on many of Google's most exciting projects during his 8 years with the company, died over the weekend in an avalanche on Mount Everest triggered by Nepal's devastating earthquake</a>.

• LinkedIn buys training site Lynda.com, enters professional development market

  LinkedIn is acquiring online learning company lynda.com for US$1.5 billion in cash and stock, the social networking site announced Thursday.

• LinkedIn buys social knowledge startup Refresh

  In a move that could yield even more automated suggestions and tips for LinkedIn users, the professional network has acquired California startup Refresh, the maker of an app that gathers news and insights about participants in meetings.