Wednesday, January 08, 2014

Article: LinkedIn sues to stop bots that are stealing its user profiles

Professional network LinkedIn is fighting off shady competitors that are using bots to vacuum up hundreds of thousands of its user profiles in order to compete with LinkedIn's own recruiter products, according to a new lawsuit. In a complaint filed this week in San Francisco, LinkedIn asked a cou...

http://gigaom.com/2014/01/07/linkedin-sues-to-stop-bots-that-are-stealing-its-user-profiles/

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