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Welcome to another edition of Starred , where we take you deep inside the inboxes of our favorite CEOs, entrepreneurs, and VCs.

Imagine if your prospects for beating the 9.1% unemployment rate depended not on a meticulously crafted cover letter and résumé, but on a complicated algorithm that helped companies determine the best matches for open jobs.

Women are more prolific networkers in male-dominated industries. Is social media correcting the real-life old-boys' club? Women are the best networkers in the tobacco and ranching industries; men rule cosmetics, according to LinkedIn 's new study of the 21st century workforce, Battle of the Sexes, in which the social network tapped its massive trove of user data to examine gender imbalances between industries.

Think LinkedIn is just a professional network? Think again.

Mad Men-inspired branding, Hulu mulls a sale, marketing tips from an unexpected source, LinkedIn's power users, and more.

New research from Pew highlights the high civic enthusiasm of social media users. When the scramble for Facebook fans is exhausted, the study suggests, LinkedIn could become the new political battleground. All of those Likes might be good practice for the real thing

It may not be as dramatic as Twitter or as ubiquitous as Facebook, but LinkedIn attracts dedicated users who are serious about business. Here's how to connect with them using the fast-growing service's most powerful new tools.

By increasing the volume of "spray-and-pray" candidates, is LinkedIn really helping the hiring process?

A number of sites would love to lay claim to the title "the LinkedIn of China." Especially LinkedIn itself.

The LinkedIn IPO, Mark Pincus and Zynga, elevator pitch obsolescence, and more entrepreneur news. LinkedIn is worth more than Fiji

There is plenty of hoopla over the first major social network IPO.

Wayne Breitbarth is a consultant and speaker on social media and author of The Power Formula for LinkedIn Success. Wayne Breitbarth is a consultant and speaker on social media and author of The Power Formula for LinkedIn Success.

LinkedIn, with its database of over a hundred million names, is also an interesting trove of sociological data. Should you give your baby one of the most popular names for CEOs?

Recently, I was asked why it's important to have a company page on LinkedIn. To make sure we covered all of the bases, I turned to one of my favorite LinkedIn Guru 's, Barbara Rozgonyi.

LinkedIn 's just launched its new platform to everyone online interested in hooking up to the business networking site's APIs. Useful stuff, for some, but what it's really about is trying to usurp Facebook in the enterprise social networking space. Back in October, LinkedIn revealed some of its plans when it gave "over a thousand developers" early access to a new Javascript-based platform that would let third parties integrate more closely with LinkedIn's extensive business-based social graph.