The head of Microsoft, Satya Nadella, spoke at the DLD (Digital-Life-Design) conference in Munich, Germany, on January 16, 2017. Guests at the three-day conference discussed the trends and developments of the digitization.
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The corporate-owned LinkedIn social network LinkedIn had technical issues Tuesday during U.S. business hours, prompting people to post about their problems accessing the LinkedIn website and app. .
During the coronavirus pandemic, online services that allow communication, such as Microsoft Teams, Slack, and Zoom, have had occasional disruptions. LinkedIn doesn’t have that role, but it provides a key role for recruiters, job seekers, and marketers, and marketers rely on it to show ads to users.
The service has also become a more popular place to learn during the pandemic. The number of hours spent on LinkedIn’s learning service doubled year-over-year in the fourth quarter, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella told analysts at a conference call last month.
LinkedIn began telling people in tweets that it was working to resolve issues around 2 p.m., Eastern Time. Shortly afterwards he confirmed the degraded experience on mobile devices and his website on desktop computers in a tweet. The service began to recover for certain users shortly before 3 pm, Eastern Time.
A LinkedIn representative did not immediately respond to a request for feedback on the generalization of the issues.
Some people trying to access the LinkedIn website found an error message along with a string of random letters and numbers – a different type of error message than what people have touched on Amazon that has been accompanied by photos of dogs .
A different message that some users saw in attempts to visit the LinkedIn website said that “the server does not have a DNS entry.”
Microsoft acquired LinkedIn for $ 27 billion in 2016. Nadella said in January that LinkedIn had nearly 740 million members. About 6% of the company’s revenue comes from LinkedIn.
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