LinkedIn Says Mystery App Is Coming Soon

LinkedIn has big plans for mobile adoption in 2014, and a new standalone app (or two) appears to be among them

The professional networking company has "more apps planned" for 2014, according to Parker Barrile, VP of Product for LinkedIn Talent Solutions — with one of them coming in the "not too distant future."

That app, the company's fifth, could arrive in the next few weeks. Here are LinkedIn's existing four apps:

• LinkedIn — This is the standard LinkedIn mobile app, and brings most of the features from LinkedIn's web version to users' mobile devices.

• Pulse — LinkedIn acquired Pulse and its mobile newsreader app for $90 million back in April of 2013. The app surfaces popular news and feature articles from the web, and replaced LinkedIn Today as the company's news curation technology for the main site back in November

• LinkedIn Recruiter — The Recruiter app was released in October and is primarily for human resources and recruiting professionals. It brings tools used to monitor and discover new employees on LinkedIn to a standalone mobile app. The company announced an Android version of the app Thursday Read more...