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This week, it was Twitter's turn to make news, while LinkedIn served up another update.

This week in social media has shown us that even the smallest of updates can impact how we communicate. Let’s take a look at some of the recent developments several social networks had to offer.
 

Social media giant Facebook has just reported earnings of $1.46 billion and a profit of $219 million as it continued to grow its global user base in the first quarter of 2013. Recent efforts have seen the company increasing its mobile focus as it aims to utilize its massive on-the-go user base.

 The big changes by LinkedIn from April are rolling on into May with another raft of updates for the social business site. This time, a new update lets users add media content to their profile pages to better get a message or your skills across. 

Social business service LinkedIn is making lots of moves this month, and its latest effort integrates your contacts with the likes of Outlook, your Google information and other sources to create a new breed of personal assistant app.

LinkedIn might have started out as a social enterprise jobs board, as far as users were concerned. But now, with all these linked professionals sharing advice and news, it is evolving into a useful information source with posts from CTOs, CIOs and others taking up the front page feed. 

Pulse, a popular and free news reader in the Flipboard or Zite style, has been scooped up by LinkedIn, the newest shooting star in social media, for US $90 million.

For this week's Mobile App of the Week, we are taking a look at CanWeNetwork, a business networking assistance application.

Our LinkedIn world has gotten a bit smaller today. That's because members can now use mentions to draw other people into conversations.

Start off the New Year with a new gig -- we've got a shopping list of hot jobs for you to browse. Our featured jobs list is a great collection of opportunities spanning specialties and continents. Here's who's hiring this week (and if you're hiring, post your open jobs here).

For social media networks like LinkedIn that aim to connect people that don’t really know each other the better the search, the better your service.

PeopleLinx, provider of engagement and analytics software for LinkedIn, has received US$ 3.2 million in Series A funding from Osage Venture Partners, Greycroft Partners and MissionOG, among other strategic angel investors. PeopleLinx says it will use the investment to accelerate growth with Fortune 1000 customers.

Expanding on its customer engagement tools, LinkedIn introduced SlideShare Content Ads this week. The new tool is designed to let companies run marketing presentations that initially appear as a page display ad.

In its continued effort to become more than just a resume-posting site, LinkedIn is reported to be in the process of buying Pulse, which makes a popular, free mobile news reader.

Two updates are rolling out to Pro and Enterprise Hootsuite customers, an advanced targeting option for the Enterprise version, and LinkedIn Company Pages analytics for Pro and Enterprise users.