LinkedIn has recently reported their Q3 financial results. LinkedIn reported revenues of $252 million and earnings per share of $0.22. Analysts were expecting $244 million in revenues and earnings per share of $0.11.
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LinkedIn has announced that they are acquiring SlideShare for $119 million. The deal is being made in 45% cash and 55% stock. SlideShare allows people to upload documents on the web and embed them on websites.
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LinkedIn Corporation (NYSE:LNKD) has reported their second quarter results today. LinkedIn’s revenue for the quarter was at $121 million, which is an increase from $54.9 million in Q2 2010. This is a 120% increase. The net income for the second quarter was $4.5 million compared to $4.3 million for the second quarter of 2010.
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A new wave of Google+ stories has arrived! Click through to find the link to the Apple App Store page for the Google+ for iPhone app, the Google+ profiles of Facebook staff, a way to find public Google+ hangouts, LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner’s opinion of the new social network and a rumor about verified celebrity accounts.
Professional social network LinkedIn.com has filed to go public. LinkedIn is currently hitting about $200 million in anunal revenues. This is up 200% from about a year ago. With a 10x valuation, LinkedIn is expected to have a $2 billion market cap. This means that founder Reid Hoffman’s 21.4% stake would be worth around $430 million. LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner would be worth $80 million. Sequoia Capital’s $4.7 million investment in the company would be worth $380 million. LinkedIn also recently acquired CardMunch, a business card reading application for the iPhone.
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Professional social networking company LinkedIn has acquired ChoiceVendor Inc. ChoiceVendor is a website where users review business service provider companies. This is LinkedIn’s second acquisition.
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Greylock Partners is tapping the business skills that Reid Hoffman has by making him an investing partner at the VC firm. Hoffman will work as the Chairman of LinkedIn at the same time. As part of the announcement that Greylock made, the company announced a $575 million round of funding. Currently Jeff Weiner is the CEO of LinkedIn.
In the past 6 six years, Hoffman has invested in Facebook, Digg, Flickr, Zynga and several other companies. “I definitely wear too many hats,” stated Hoffman as quoted by VentureBeat. “[Greylock and I] both wanted to make sure we had good, aligned interests. My interest was that I would continue to be massively focused on LinkedIn, and their interest was that I would help provide intelligence on the consumer Internet.”
Greylock is also an investor in LinkedIn. LinkedIn has over a $1 billion valuation based on their last rounds of funding. LinkedIn raised about $103 million in funding from Sequoia, Bain Capital, SAP Ventures, Goldman Sachs, McGraw Hill, Bessemer, Greylock, and the European Founders Fund. Hoffman worked at PayPal shortly before the acquisition and is considered one of the PayPal Mafia members.
Last year Dan Nye stepped down as the LinkedIn CEO and co-founder Reid Hoffman filled in. Jeff Weiner, a former Yahoo! executive also became President of the social network. Now Weiner will become the CEO of LinkedIn.
LinkedIn receives about 15 million monthly unique visitors and has about 42 million registered users. LinkedIn is profitable and could go public at any time. LinkedIn’s three revenue sources include premium subscriptions, corporate solutions, and an advertising platform.
Reid Hoffman will serve as the executive chairman of the company. Weiner was EVP of Yahoo!’s Network division before leaving to become an entrepreneur-in-residence at Accel and Greylock.
[via TechCrunch]
