What is it about graphs and economics? In a discipline where facts are murky and certainty is elusive, graphs offer a bright light of information and a small confidence that the world can be summed up between two axes. So when the BBC asked a group of ...

Microsoft and LinkedIn believe they can help to "lift" the global economy. Both companies will now have a hand in building an economic graph that combines corporate and business data to create what LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner calls the world's first "Economic ...

LinkedIn is positioned to become the first global economic graph with the ability to mine the transactions of an emerging data economy. That’s the conclusion of a study by faberNovel, which has published the results of its work with a detailed 127-slide ...

As the saying goes: "It's hard to make predictions. Especially about the future." Thirty years ago, it was obvious to everybody that oil prices would keep going up forever. Twenty years ago, it was obvious that Japan would own the 21st century. Ten years ...

But the social media business is offering a glimpse behind the scenes at the digital pipelines intended to eventually pave the way to LinkedIn's long haul plan: establishing the world's first economic graph. That economic graph will eventually extend from ...