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Big Company Exploiting Twitter?

Twitter can be gamed too? Who would have thought? If there is a way to get promotion from a popular social site, you know that it will be taken advantage of. It just becomes a matter of competition at some point, perhaps even with people being paid to help with that promotion (right Diggers?).

More Employers Using Social Networks To Screen Job Candidates

More employers are screening potential job candidates by looking at their social networking profiles.

Gannett Takes Control Of CareerBuilder

This development can be seen as something that's either good for the Internet sector or bad for the economy in general.  Or both.  Regardless, Gannett has paid $135 million for another ten percent of CareerBuilder.com, which brings its total stake up to 50.8 percent.

Facebook, CareerBuilder Collaborate On Ads

For most people, Facebook is still a social network - more about palling around than seeking a new job.  Yet it never hurts to have an opportunity dropped in one's lap, and a new Facebook-CareerBuilder collaboration aims to let employers do some advertising.

CareerBuilder Takes Monk-E-Mail Mobile

CareerBuilder is expanding its popular Monk-e-Mail to mobile phones. Over 100 million Monk-e-mails have been sent since its launch in 2006.

CareerBuilder Adds Apps To Facebook

Online job site CareerBuilder.com has announced that it is now offering job and internship matching applications on the Facebook Platform.

Social Networks Positive For Job Recruiters

Sixty-eight percent of staffing and recruiting professionals say they use social networks at least occasionally to source candidates, according to an online survey from Bullhorn, "Making the Most of the New Tools: How online resources impact placement ratios, time-to-fill and profitability."

Newspapers Sniping Over CareerBuilder

McClatchy, Gannett, and Tribune own parts of the CareerBuilder job listings site, but McClatchy is starting to feel like it's just heard the song stop during musical chairs, and all the seats are taken.

The Month of Acquisitions

There were numerous partnerships and acquisitions in the month of May, which included a lot of dollars changing hands. Let's look at some of the major deals that went down this past month

Monster Rampages With New Pricing

The job classified competition with CareerBuilder has heated up, with Monster.com readying new strategies to fight back against the news publisher/Microsoft-controlled site.