LinkedIn Launches a Set of Mobile Recruiting Products

Mobile mobile mobile! The valley mantra you’re so familiar with by now.

Apple’s BlackBerry Employee-Poaching Party

Hey, BlackBerry employees! Apple’s recruiting team is hosting a career event in your town!

The ZuckerPAC Says It Cares About All Immigrants, Not Just the Techies

The Facebook founder’s political action group aims to burnish its image while supporting a writer and activist’s recent film project.

Oculus’s Luckey and Mitchell: What’s the End Game for the Rift? (Q&A, Part Two)

“Our No. 1 goal is doing it on our own.”

EA and Zynga Quietly Resolve Copyright Dispute Out of Court

Terms of the settlement are confidential, so it’s unclear exactly how the two companies resolved their differences.

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Facebook Wants to Beef Up Design Talent in NYC Office

Facebook is actively seeking designers to work in its midtown Manhattan office, the company announced Monday. Most of Facebook’s 90-member design team is housed in its Menlo Park, Calif., office, though the company aims to recruit enough talent to work specifically out of the 150-person East Coast office. The team will work in conjunction with the advertising sales team to make sure monetized products look pretty on the Facebook platform, which makes sense, considering much of the industry’s ad sales activity is out East.

Confirmed: Chris Dixon Becomes Seventh Investing GP at Andreessen Horowitz

So it is written, so it shall be done.

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U.S. Sues eBay Over Recruiting Pact With Intuit

EBay Inc. said it will fight a Department of Justice lawsuit that alleges that the Internet retailer and financial software provider Intuit Inc. had signed an illegal agreement restricting the companies’ ability to actively recruit employees from one another.

LinkedIn’s Banner Q3 Blows Past Street Consensus

The professional social network beats, big time.

Mapping Silicon Valley’s Own Private “iWay”

A San Francisco design firm maps the hidden transit system of the tech elite.