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LinkedIn's College Student App Has Huge Profit Potentail
Earlier this month, LinkedIn launched a stand-alone app targeting college students transitioning into the start of their professional lives. Though unlikely to garner any awards for creative naming, the firm's LinkedIn Students app remains nonetheless …
LinkedIn's College Student App Has Huge Profit Potentail
Earlier this month, LinkedIn launched a stand-alone app targeting college students transitioning into the start of their professional lives. Though unlikely to garner any awards for creative naming, the firm's LinkedIn Students app remains nonetheless …
The secrets to LinkedIn's open source success
Web giants like LinkedIn, for example: Take a look at LinkedIn's GitHub page, and you'll discover the death of dozens of real or potential startups. Yes, LinkedIn, the company ostensibly set up to "connect the world's professionals to make them more …
LinkedIn's newest app helps college grads find a job
For all the talk about its benefit to the “economic graph,” one of the main things LinkedIn is recognized as being is an online resume — it's a social network that most professionals understand how to use to its advantage. But what about those that …
LinkedIn's Special Sauce May Be Losing Its Kick
In addition to lowering its rating on LinkedIn, MKM cut its sales and earnings estimates for 2016 and 2017. MKM now anticipates the company will generate $3.6 billion and $4.2 billion in sales this year and next. That's down from its earlier forecasts …
Will LinkedIn's Sinking Value Draw Activists?
The recent campaign against Clear Channel Outdoor Holdings (CCO – Get Report) shows that controlling ownership positions does not necessarily prevent agitation. If LinkedIn were to test the market, its marketing and recruiting products could draw …
Will LinkedIn's Sinking Value Draw Activists?
As analysts have taken a harsh view of LinkedIn's (LNKD) value, the social media group has lost more than half of its share price since the start of the year. The growing angst could attract attention from activists, though the dual-class stock …
LinkedIn's Lynda.com Videos Are Now Free on Some Commercial Flights
That's exactly what LinkedIn is doing to promote Lynda.com, the library of online classes it bought last year for a whopping $1.5 billion. LinkedIn announced Tuesday that it's partnering with Virgin America to offer those classes for free to in-flight …
LinkedIn's new SF home: a 26-story skyscraper
Gasps and sounds of awe echoed off the brand-new walls of LinkedIn's 26-story San Francisco skyscraper, which opened Monday to its employees. The building, 222 Second St., will unite LinkedIn's San Francisco workforce, which, until now, had been split …
LinkedIn's Efforts to Introduce New Features to Its Product Line
The leading professional networking site, LinkedIn (LNKD) is finding it difficult to keep its stock price up since it announced its 4Q15 earnings. The company's shares have seen a significant fall of 43% to a three-year-plus low of $102.90. The reason …
LinkedIn's Efforts to Introduce New Features to Its Product Line
The leading professional networking site, LinkedIn (LNKD) is finding it difficult to keep its stock price up since it announced its 4Q15 earnings. The company's shares have seen a significant fall of 43% to a three-year-plus low of $102.90. The reason …
LinkedIn's CEO on Stock Drop: 'It Was a Surprise'
LinkedIn's CEO Jeff Weiner discusses the company's stock plummet after reporting first-quarter earnings results in early February with Bloomberg's Emily Chang on Studio 1.0. (Source: Bloomberg) …
LinkedIn's Jeff Weiner Q&A: What It's Like Being CEO on the Stock's Worst Day Ever
The analysts' concern is that their thesis, their very thesis about what LinkedIn is, was wrong—that they thought you were a fast-growth company but instead, you're a slower-growth company, more like a software-as-a-service company. What's right? Oh …
LinkedIn's CEO Is Giving His Entire $14 Million Bonus to His Employees
“Jeff decided to ask the Compensation Committee to forgo his annual equity grant, and to instead put those shares back in the pool for LinkedIn employees,” Joe Roualdes, a spokesperson for LinkedIn, told MONEY. Weiner's decision follows LinkedIn's …
LinkedIn's CEO gives his $14 million stock bonus back to employees to make up …
LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner is taking one for the team and forgoing his $14 million stock bonus to give it back to his employees. The move is sure to boost morale among employees after the company's stock value took a drubbing following its earnings …