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If Clemson can get back to the top, that will mark its seventh ACC title in eight seasons. That’s would be an unprecedented run, re-kindling memories of Florida State’s tear through the league in the 1990s.

Clemson is the preseason pick to win the Atlantic Coast Conference for the seventh time in eight seasons. That's according to voting results released following last week’s ACC media days. Media members picked the Tigers on 103 of 164 votes.

LinkedIn's English site has been available in China for years. The company hopes to draw 140 million new users with its Chinese-language site, according to The Wall Street Journal.

After an uncomfortable dustup between county leaders and Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools, they meet in private this week with no progress reported, but now the NAACP is calling for transparency and accountability from CMS for failing minority students. Plus, Credit Karma expands in Charlotte bringing 600 jobs, and the ACC baseball tournament and NASCAR's Coca-Cola 600 are in town at full capacity.

College athletics are in a state of chaos. Most of this has centered around football, which brings in more revenue than most other NCAA sports combined. But there's been a cost. Regional ties are being lost and some conferences are fighting to avoid being left in the dust. That includes the ACC, which recently moved its headquarters to Charlotte.

The Atlantic Coast Conference has canceled its tournament semifinal game between No. 16 Virginia and Georgia Tech due to a positive COVID-19 test, quarantining and contact tracing within the Cavaliers program. Georgia Tech advances to play the winner of North Carolina-Florida State.

Microsoft announced it's buying another tech giant, LinkedIn, for $26.2 billion. The companies, both leaders in the productivity marketplace, believe the move could boost their income potential by 50 percent in that market. According to a Microsoft spokesperson, talks on the massive deal began in March.

The popular professional networking site is laying off people in positions across its engineering, product, talent and finance departments.

UNC needs a step forward defensively from a unit returning seven starters, including Ray Vohasek (24 starts) up front and Tony Grimes (17) in the secondary. There’s also the arrival of coordinator Gene Chizik, who led a turnaround once before at UNC.

The profile is for Alex Rodriguez, the founder, CEO and president of A-Rod Corp. No confirmation yet that it is for the N.Y. Yankees star suspended over alleged use of performance enhancing drugs.

A new online scam involving LinkedIn is duping professionals into investing in cryptocurrencies, and then scammers steal their money.

The Atlantic Coast Conference is going forward with a plan to change its football scheduling model, with the biggest change being the elimination of divisions.

Monday it was the NCAA. Wednesday it’s the ACC. The Atlantic Coast Conference Council of Presidents announced today 10 league championships will not be…

During an all-staff meeting, anonymous employees deride the racial justice protests and question the professional networking company's diversity initiatives.

Microsoft says it's pulling the plug on LinkedIn in China. The decision concludes a seven-year run, at the end of which it became too tough an environment for the networking service to keep operating.

It's an unhappy week for sports promoters in North Carolina. Both the NCAA, on Monday, and the Atlantic Coast Conference, on Wednesday, said they're…

Chinese intelligence officers like to use the professional social network — in which people often accept pings from strangers — to recruit sources within the U.S. government.

NPR's Leila Fadel talks to Christopher Zara of Fast Company, who has been following the company's forays into artificial intelligence.

The Atlantic Coast Conference opened its football kickoff event Monday in uptown Charlotte. Before the sports talk, ACC Commissioner Jim Phillips made opening remarks and addressed ongoing legal challenges from Clemson and Florida State, who want to leave the league, in part, for bigger television deals elsewhere. Phillips said he won’t back down.