Tag Archives: LinkedIn
LinkedIn Acquiring SlideShare For $119 Million
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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Categories Amit Ranjan, Jeff Weiner, Jonathan Boutelle, LinkedIn, Rashmi Sinha, SlideShare
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LinkedIn Now Has An iPad App
LinkedIn has recently updated their iOS app to be Universal for supporting the iPhone and the iPad. The LinkedIn iPhone app has been around for a while, but the LinkedIn iPad app is brand new. This is big news for the company since 22% of LinkedIn’s active members visit them from mobile devices. The iPad app was built with a tablet interface in mind and they wanted to make sure that the app satisfied the needs of iPad users. LinkedIn noticed that iPad users were visiting the website mostly in the morning and between 7PM and 11PM.
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KLM Meet & Seat Allows Passengers To Social Network With Each Other [VIDEO]
KLM is working on a new feature for flights that allows you to view other passengers’ Facebook or LinkedIn profile details to see where they’ll be sitting long before your flight leaves the ground. KLM’s Meet & Seat allows you to also find out which other passengers are attending the same event at your destination. To set it up, enter your Facebook or LinkedIn profile through “Manage my Booking.” Currently the feature is available for KLM flights between Amsterdam and New York, San Francisco, and Sao Paulo.
Categories Facebook, KLM, LinkedIn
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LinkedIn Acquires Gmail Plugin Company Rapportive
Rapportive is one of my favorite plugins for Gmail. Essentially what it does is replace Google Ads with the social profiles of your e-mail contacts on the right side-bar of Gmail. The social profiles include LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, Picasa, Tumblr, AngelList, etc. LinkedIn has acquired Rapportive today.
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Categories LinkedIn, Rahul Vohra, Rapportive
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LinkedIn Revenues Are Up 105% To $167.7 Million In Q4
LinkedIn was the professional social network that reported a stronger fourth quarter in 2011 earnings today. LinkedIn’s revenue for the fourth quarter was $167.7 million, which is an increase of 105% compared to $81.7 million during the fourth quarter in 2010.
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It Took LinkedIn Five Years To Turn Its First Profit
LinkedIn Corporation (NYSE:LNKD) founder Reid Hoffman was thoroughly profiled by The New York Times this weekend. The story really gave you an inside behind how LinkedIn grew from a small social network that nobody heard about to a public company minting hundreds of millions of dollars. As a venture capital partner at Greylock, Reid Hoffman is also a go-to guy for business advice in Silicon Valley.
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Categories LinkedIn, Peter Thiel, Reid Hoffman
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LinkedIn Launches HTML5 Mobile Website and Updates Mobile Apps
LinkedIn Corporation (NYSE:LNKD) started focusing heavily on their mobile strategy. Today they updated their iPhone, Android, and other mobile web apps. LinkedIn Mobile is growing 400% year-over-year in terms of users.
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LinkedIn Hears User Complaints, Pulls Profile Photos from Ads
LinkedIn “pulled a Facebook” recently and used profile photos in ads on the professional social network, and the users got angry. Now the site is recoiling from the backlash and changing the in-house ads program to keep users’ photos out of it. As PC Mag reports, the entire fiasco stems from a privacy policy change LinkedIn made in June, which allowed the company to collect data from users’ profiles and use it in social ads.
The Debt Crisis Puts Future Tech IPOs In A Turbulent Market
Some of the technology companies that have filed to have an IPO this year includes Zillow.com, Zynga, Groupon, and LivingSocial. Given Pandora and LinkedIn’s success on their recent IPO, it provided positivity and excitement for the aforementioned companies to go public. However today’s economy gives the stock market an entirely different perspective.
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Categories Groupon, LinkedIn, LivingSocial, Pandora, Zillow, Zynga
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LinkedIn Reports Revenue Up 120% To $121 Million In First Quarter
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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Categories Jeff Weiner, LinkedIn
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