Some Companies Once Banned Their Employees From Using LinkedIn

Like many startups, LinkedIn had its share of problems when it first started out.  In an interview with The Wall Street Journal's Andy Kessler, LinkedIn's founder and CEO Reid Hoffman explains that when LinkedIn was getting off the ground, some companies resisted the business-oriented social network, even banning their employees from using the site. One of those companies was Nokia. "In the very early days, Nokia banned LinkedIn because they said your title was company internal information so ...