ECONOMIC TIMES - Feb 12 - LinkedIn has planned to introduce mobile advertising through its apps across the Apple's and Android's operating systems. Jeff Weiner, the CEO of LinkedIn, gave no indication of timing for launching mobile ads. The news comes soon after Facebook announced that it would introduce mobile adverts as soon as next month.
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LinkedIn Hits 150 Million Members
MASHABLE - Feb 10 - LinkedIn has now 150M members in its network, a 20M increase over November. The company posted revenues of $167.7M, beating the analysts’ consensus of $160M for Q4. Adjusted profit was $0.12 cents per share, which beat analysts’ projections of 7c a share. LinkedIn’s stock was up more than 5% in after-hours trading.
LinkedIn Picks Up Rapportive For Around $15 Million
TECH CRUNCH - Feb 8 - LinkedIn has bought contact management startup Rapportive. The startup, which aggregates and displays the social networking accounts of the people you contact through Gmail, was backed for $1M by seed investors Charles River Ventures, Paul Buchheit, Scott Banister, Jason Calacanis, Gary Vaynerchuk, Dharmesh Shah, Shervin Pishevar, Roy Rodenstein, Kima Ventures, Zelkova Ventures, 500 Startups, Michael Zirngibl, Ashish Soni and David Cancel.
Groupon Basks In Facebook Light, For Now
REUTERS - Feb 3 - Groupon shares jumped to their highest level of 2012 Thursday as the daily deal company got a boost from social networking euphoria sparked by Facebook's IPO filing. Facebook filed to raise about $5 billion Wednesday in what would be the largest Internet IPO ever. Shares of LinkedIn hit $77.84, the highest level in almost three months. Groupon shares jumped 8.3% to $23.28. The stock hit $24.22 earlier, the highest since December 16. Such gains may be temporary, especially for companies like Groupon that have less of a direct relationship to Facebook.
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Twitter, LinkedIn Will See Slower Revenue Growth
READ WRITE WEB - Jan 31 - Twitter and LinkedIn will continue to see strong advertisemnet growth, with Twitter's revenue expected to nearly double between 2012 and 2014, according to a report by eMarketer Digital Intelligence. Twitter gets 90% of its revenue from U.S. advertisiers, while LinkedIn depends more on foreign adverisers, with just 68% of its 2012 ad revenue expected to come from U.S. advertisers. eMarketer is projecting 83% revenue growth for Twitter this year, down from 233% in 2011, and 46.1% revenue growth for LinkedIn, down from 95% in 2011.
Canadian LinkedIn Users Reach Five Million
FINANCIAL POST – Jan 19 – According to data released Thursday, one in six Canadians is now a member of LinkedIn, the world’s largest professional social network. Now at 5M member, this represents a 66% growth since June 2011 when the user base stood at 3M. LinkedIn’s global user base is now over 135M in over 200 countries, trailing slightly behind Twitter and Facebook in numbers. The professional network generates revenue from advertising, subscription services, and “recruiting solutions” such as their Apply with LinkedIn plugin.
by Zara McAlister
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LinkedIn Eyes Growth In Asia Pacific In 2012
PC WORLD - Dec 22 - Professional social network LinkedIn which started its Singapore office 7 months ago is set to double its staff strength in the country in 2012. LinkedIn currently has 8 people in leadership positions in Singapore. In the region LinkedIn now boasts 20M plus members compared to the 17M about half a year ago. Worldwide, LinkedIn has now 135M members and two new members are joining the network every second.
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Investors Dumping Social Networking Stocks En Masse
FORBES - Dec 20 - Zynga, which went public Friday at $10 a share, and dropped 50c by the close of the first day of trading, today fell another 45c, or 4.7%, to $9.05. Groupon on Monday fell $1.04, or 4.5%, to $22, still 10% above its November IPO price. LinkedIn was down 90c, or 1.4%, to $64.94. Pandora dropped 56c, or 5.3%, to $9.99. ;HomeAway fell $2.42, or 10.4%, to $20.88.
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LinkedIn Opens First Latin American Office
SOCIAL BARREL - Dec 6 - Professional social network LinkedIn, which staged its IPO in June of this year, opened its first office in Latin America, in São Paolo, Brazil. LinkedIn’s opening of its São Paolo office is part of broader efforts to expand internationally. The company started operations in Japan last month and in May launched its Asia headquarters in Singapore.
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LinkedIn Shareholders To Offer Shares
DOW JONES NEWSWIRES - Nov 16 - LinkedIn said shareholders will unload ~6.7M shares in a planned equity sale. LinkedIn will pair the stock from the selling shareholders with its plans to sell another $100M in equity, which the social networking company first unveiled earlier this month. Yesterday, LinkedIn said it would sell a minimum of about 1.3M shares, or roughly $100.4M worth at its latest closing price.
LinkedIn By The Numbers
MASHABLE - Nov 4 - LinkedIn now has 131M members and more than a million groups. ~15M people joined LinkedIn in Q3 2011. That’s a boost of 63% YOY. Mobile pageviews are up by 400% YOY. In total, mobile accounts for 13% of LinkedIn’s unique visits. The revenue jumped by 126% to $139.5M. Despite the positive numbers , LinkedIn’s stock is down by 9% in after-hours trading.
LinkedIn Buys Real-Time Search Startup
MASHABLE - Oct 12 - LinkedIn has acquired IndexTank, a provider of real-time hosted search technology, for an undisclosed amount. The acquisition will help improve LinkedIn’s internal search technology.
LinkedIn Acquires Social CRM Company Connected
LinkedIn Revenue Up 120% to $121M
TECH CRUNCH - Aug 5 - LinkedIn is reporting its second quarter results today. The revenue came in at $121M, which is an increase of 120% compared to $54.9M for the Q2 '10. Net income for the second quarter was $4.5M, compared to $4.3M YOY. The site’s members grew to 115.8M, an increase of 61% from the Q2 '10. During the quarter, LinkedIn saw unique visitors of 81.8M per month, an increase of 83% from Q2 '10.
LinkedIn Loss Expected in First Earnings Report
BUSINESS JOURNAL - July 31 - LinkedIn, whose stock has more than doubled since it went public in May, nonetheless is expected to post a loss of 4c a share on Thursday. Revenue is expected to rise to $104.45M. That compares to $93.9M in revenue in the Q1 '11, a period in which it showed a net loss of $2.1M.
LinkedIn Surpasses Myspace
TECH CRUNCH - July 10 - LinkedIn surpassed Myspace in terms of traffic to become the No. 2 most visited social network in the U.S. in June. LinkedIn had 33.9M unique visitors in June compared to Myspace, which saw 33.5M unique visitors (that’s down from 34.9M in May). In June, Facebook saw 160.8M unique vistors in the U.S., which is up from 157.2M uniques in May.
LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner Must Show Firm's Value
BLOOMBERG BUSINESWEEK - July 5 - LinkedIn shares soared above $120, valued LinkedIn at $9 billion. CEO Jeff Weiner quickly became a target for critics doubting the company was worth its sky-high valuation. The stock price has cooled since the initial public offering, but it still values LinkedIn at $8.4 billion, a whopping 547 times the company's 2010 earnings. If it keeps attracting new members and extracting more value from their professional profiles, LinkedIn under Weiner could become the first publicly traded success story of the social networking era. He made LinkedIn's "hiring solutions" business. Recruiting firms pay LinkedIn $8K a year for each employee who uses its advanced tools to search through profiles on the site.
Foreign Websites Doomed in China? Look at LinkedIn
WSJ - June 15 - LinkedIn’s Chinese membership has grown to ~1M members. When asked if LinkedIn has plans to set up China operations, managing director Arvind Rajan said: “Entry into China is not something that we take lightly. We’re open to exploring ways to be in China over the long-term.” LinkedIn’s members in China are mostly high-earning professionals who work for multinationals or otherwise have a need to make contacts outside of China. Aside from the political obstacles, locally-managed companies have proven to be better at localizing Internet services and content. Facebook-like social networks Renren.com and Kaixin001 claim tens of millions of users each, as do Twitter-like microblogging services offered by Sina and Tencent. Groupon’s Chinese wite, Gaopeng.com, also faces strong local challengers. LinkedIn has competition as well. Viadeo’s Tianji.com claims to have 6M users and says it is aiming for 10M by the end of the year. Other competitors include Ushi.cn and Jingwei, a site launched jointly by Renren and jobs website Zhaopin.
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