Ryan Roslansky, who led LinkedIn before taking over Office and later Microsoft Teams, is leaving the company after nearly 18 years. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella confirmed the departure in an internal memo, praising Roslansky's work consolidating product, engineering and design teams. Microsoft is folding Office and Teams into its Copilot, Agents, and Platform organization under Charles Lamanna, with design chief Jon Friedman now reporting to Copilot lead Jacob Andreou, while Dan Shapero remains LinkedIn CEO reporting to Nadella.
slashdot.org
· 2026-10-01
Ryan Roslansky, the former LinkedIn CEO, announced on Thursday that he is leaving Microsoft at the end of the year, closing out nearly 18 years across LinkedIn and its parent company. He cited reluctance to relocate and work full-time, every day, from Microsoft's Washington office as a factor in his decision.
fastcompany.com
· 2026-10-01
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella announced in a Thursday memo that Ryan Roslansky, who led LinkedIn for six years, will leave the company at the end of 2026. Roslansky had joined LinkedIn in 2009 and became its CEO in 2020, overseeing membership growth from 700 million to 1.3 billion before taking on broader Microsoft 365 and Copilot leadership duties earlier this year. Dan Shapero, LinkedIn's former COO, already succeeded him as LinkedIn CEO.
cnbc.com
· 2026-10-01
Ryan Roslansky, who has led LinkedIn since 2020 and took on oversight of Microsoft 365's Copilot strategy last year, announced he is leaving the company. In an internal memo, he said the decision stemmed from a need to be based full-time in Redmond, while his family remains in the Bay Area. He credited CEO Satya Nadella and his teams for LinkedIn surpassing a billion members and nearly tripling its business during his tenure.
theverge.com
· 2026-10-01
OpenAI and Anthropic have been widely using the title 'member of technical staff' for employees, a term that was previously obscure in the tech industry. The designation is now appearing more frequently on hiring boards and LinkedIn profiles as other AI companies adopt similar language.
fastcompany.com
· 2026-09-30
A commentator describes LinkedIn as dominated by performative 'productivity' posts, including a recurring pattern of computer vision projects showing people waving their hands to be tracked by a camera. The writer says these projects, along with items like a pothole-detection demo, appear repeatedly and nearly identically across the feed, suggesting they are copied from tutorials or generated with AI coding tools rather than built from scratch.
hereticpleb.vercel.app
· 2026-09-30
Jay Jones, an out-of-work copywriter who calls himself 'The Profiler,' says he has spent months tracking down fraudulent job postings and recruiter accounts, mostly on LinkedIn. He told the Wall Street Journal he has helped get nearly 60,000 fake listings and about 7,000 fraudulent recruiter profiles taken down, often by spotting shared photos, near-identical bios, and matching profile URL patterns.
entrepreneur.com
· 2026-09-24
A California federal judge finalized a settlement requiring ProAPIs and Netswift to stop mass-scraping LinkedIn user data, halt sales or transfers of that data, cease using fake accounts to access the platform, and delete previously scraped information. LinkedIn had sued the companies and their CEO last October, accusing them of running millions of fake accounts to continuously harvest profile, company and school data as well as user posts and comments. ProAPIs, which describes itself as a data pipeline platform, said it has agreed to a consent judgment and denies offering tools to scrape LinkedIn.
therecord.media
· 2026-09-24
LinkedIn, owned by Microsoft, is rolling out a feature enabling verified companies to strip false employment claims from user profiles. The tool targets people who list jobs they never actually held at a given organization.
fastcompany.com
· 2026-09-23
LinkedIn announced new verification tools letting members confirm their workplace or university through vouches from two or more connected colleagues who've known them for at least a year. Company page admins can now also remove profiles falsely claiming affiliation with their organization from search results. LinkedIn says over 115 million of its roughly one billion members have already added some form of verification to their profiles.
cnet.com
· 2026-09-23
LinkedIn introduced tools letting members vouch for colleagues' or classmates' work history, distinct from endorsements, and gave companies new controls over who can associate with their brand on the platform. The company said its existing verification tools have already confirmed 115 million users and over 700,000 companies.
techcrunch.com
· 2026-09-23
Jay Jones, laid off from advertising in 2023, says he has helped get almost 60,000 fraudulent job postings removed from the internet, mostly on LinkedIn, and has flagged roughly 7,000 suspicious profiles. He found scammers using stolen photos, hijacked dormant verified accounts, and fake postings on real company pages, some powered by AI to personalize pitches and harvest fees or personal data like Social Security numbers.
techspot.com
· 2026-09-23
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