LinkedIn has impressed Wall Street with its professional social network, but the company wants to be much bigger impact with the world's "economic graph", says CEO Jeff Weiner.

Each of the GAFA companies own a vast swath of our socio-economic system. Facebook owns the social graph, the digital representation of the relationships that matter in people's lives. Google owns ...

LinkedIn is positioned to become the first global economic graph with the ability to mine the transactions of an emerging data economy. That’s the conclusion of a study by faberNovel, which has ...

If the intersections are nodes, and the streets between them the links or edges, then the graph is a good abstract representation of the world. Choosing a path for an autonomous car just requires ...

Weiner said that, in time, LinkedIn's economic graph will have six dimensions: A profile for every one of the world's 3 billion workers (including those who will soon enter the workforce), A ...

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.

Microsoft and LinkedIn have been building largely non-overlapping graphs of various kinds of data pertaining to business professionals. That's the real key to Microsoft's $26.2 billion LinkedIn ...

With Klout-like talent scores and Pandora-like recommendations for the job world, LinkedIn’s magical algorithm is combing copious amounts of data to help employers discover top talent. Imagine ...

In addition to Microsoft’s MSEM, other key players in the graph database arms race for combating multidomain threats include CrowdStrike with its Threat Graph, Cisco’s XDR, SentinelOne’s ...