mountain-view Archives

LinkedIn profit beats as recruitment services revenue jumps

October 29, 2015 publisher 502-million, acquisition, angeles, biggest, earned-more, its-takeover, mountain, mountain-view, princess, said-it-now, the-operator, training-video

(Reuters) – LinkedIn Corp reported higher-than-expected quarterly revenue and profit as it earned more from its recruitment services business and benefited from the acquisition of training video company lynda.com. Shares of LinkedIn, the operator of the biggest social networking site for professionals, rose about 10 percent in extended trading on Thursday. Revenue in the company's Talents Solutions business, which connects recruiters with job candidates, rose 46 percent to $502 million in the third quarter.

News Posts

Facebook CEO Zuckerberg and wife expecting a baby girl

July 31, 2015 publisher airport, angeles, couple-landed, daughter, facebook, mountain, mountain-view, page-on-friday, pedregon, pregnancy, priscilla-chan, san, wedding, zuckerberg

By Yasmeen Abutaleb SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Facebook Inc Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, are expecting a baby girl, he said on his Facebook page on Friday. Zuckerberg, 31, did not say when their daughter is due but said the pregnancy was far enough along that the risk of miscarriage was low.

News Posts

LinkedIn follows Twitter, shocks social media investors

May 1, 2015 publisher billion-off-its, building-court, corporation, its-full-year, linked, mountain-view, net-neutrality, over-the-rules, since-it-went, social-networking, tuesday-twitter

Shares of LinkedIn Corp, operator of the most popular social network for professionals, fell 20 percent in early trading on Friday, wiping out more than $6 billion of market value, after the company slashed its full-year forecast. LinkedIn reported on Thursday its slowest quarterly revenue growth since it went public four years ago. The surprisingly weak results followed Twitter Inc's on Tuesday.

News Posts

Growth in hiring business drives LinkedIn revenue beat

February 6, 2015 publisher 369-3-million, chinese, hiring-business, michael-conroy, mountain, mountain-view, north, quarter-ended

LinkedIn's hiring business has been thriving, clocking revenue growth of nearly 50 percent in each of the last three quarters, helped by rapid expansion in international markets such as China. “In the fourth-quarter, more than 75 percent of new members came to LinkedIn from outside the United States,” Chief Executive Jeff Weiner said on a post-earnings call. The company added 3,000 new customers to its hiring business in the quarter, Chief Financial Officer Steve Sordello said.

News Posts

Google partners with auto suppliers on self-driving car

January 14, 2015 admin biggest, chris-urmson, mountain, mountain-view, remiss-not, top-automakers, white, world

By Paul Lienert and Joe White DETROIT (Reuters) – Internet company Google Inc has begun discussions with most of the world's top automakers and has assembled a team of traditional and nontraditional suppliers to speed up efforts to bring self-driving cars to market by 2020, a top Google executive said on Wednesday.

News Posts

Exclusive: Google aiming to go straight into car with next Android – sources

December 19, 2014 creative after-posting, built-directly, cars, compatible-car, instagram, latest-version, leak-sensitive, mario, mario-balotelli, media, mountain-view, soccer-match

By Alexei Oreskovic and Ben Klayman SAN FRANCISCO/DETROIT (Reuters) – Google Inc is laying the groundwork for a version of Android that would be built directly into cars, sources said, allowing drivers to enjoy all the benefits of the Internet without even plugging in their smartphones.