A federal judge on Monday ordered LinkedIn Corp. to allow a startup company to scrape data publicly posted by LinkedIn users. The decision marked a potentially precedent-setting defeat for the Microsoft Corp.-owned social-networking site in a case with deep implications for the growing industry of data analytics. The ruling came in a lawsuit brought by hiQ Labs, a San Francisco company founded in 2012 that mines and analyzes...

Source: Wall Street Journal August 14, 2017 23:03 UTC