About LinkedIn

About LinkedIn
Founded in 2003, LinkedIn connects the world's professionals to make them more productive and successful. With more than 120 million members worldwide, including executives from every Fortune 500 company, LinkedIn is the world's largest professional network on the Internet. The company has a diversified business model with revenue coming from member subscriptions, marketing solutions and hiring solutions. Headquartered in Silicon Valley, LinkedIn also has offices across North America, as well as throughout Europe, Asia and Australia

                                                 

Obama: Jobs Plan Could Help Jump Start Economic Recovery

--Obama says jobs plan could help U.S. recovery take off

--LinkedIn CEO praises Obama's jobs plan

(Updates with comments from President Obama beginning in the 7th paragraph.)

By Jared A. Favole


President Barack Obama on Monday said at a town hall hosted by LinkedIn Corp. (LNKD) that his jobs plan could have enough "ripple effects" to launch an economic recovery as he tried to soothe people struggling to find work.

Obama, citing statistics by independent economists, said his American Jobs Act could create about 1.9 million jobs and add about 2% to the nation's gross domestic product. "That is the kind of big, significant move in the economy that could have ripple effects and help the recovery take off," he said.

He also said his plan wouldn't solve all of the country's economic problems, particularly the housing market.

Obama was speaking at an event in Mountain View, Calif., hosted by LinkedIn, a social-networking website for professionals. He fielded questions on Social Security, health care, taxes and jobs.

While most of the people expressed worry about the country's economic future, the president did receive some praise. LinkedIn Chief Executive Jeff Weiner said President Obama was leading the way with his jobs plan, called the American Jobs Act.

One light-hearted moment during the one hour town hall came when a former Google Inc. (GOOG) executive asked "would you please raise my taxes?" The man, Doug Edwards, played into Obama's hand. The president has been seeking to raise taxes on the wealthy to help pay for his jobs plan. Republicans, and some Democrats, have balked at the idea, saying raising taxes during a recovery will hurt the economy.

"I appreciate the fact that you recognize we're in this thing together," the president said. "We're not on our own. And those of us who have been successful, we've always got to remember that."

Edwards, who used to handle marketing at the search engine, said he has a lot of friends who would also like the president to raise their taxes.

One questioner said he was recently laid off after 22 years in information technology management, and wanted to know what words of encouragement the president has for those out of work.

"You've got skills, you've got experience, you've got a track record of success. Right now your challenge is not you, it's the economy as a whole," Obama said. The president detailed how political unrest in the Middle East and the European debt crisis are affecting the job market. He also said America wasn't the only country where citizens are having trouble finding work.

"The point is, is that economies all around the world are not growing as fast as they need to. And since the world's really interconnected, that affects us as well," he said.

The White House pitched the president's town hall as a chance for him to connect with professionals and other people who have jobs on their minds. LinkedIn has 120 million members worldwide, Weiner said.

The president began the town hall by saying he wanted to learn ways the government can help spark innovation and get people ready to enter the workforce. "How can we prepare our workforce to be able to plug into this new economy?" the president asked.

The event comes during the president's tour of the West Coast, where in addition to holding "town halls" on the economy he is raising money for his re-election campaign. He has taken a more partisan tone in recent days, calling out Republicans by name and saying their vision for the government will "fundamentally cripple America."

The president is trying to garner support for his $447 billion jobs plan and has urged Americans to back the measure and pressure Congress to pass it. But Republicans, and some Democrats, are against raising taxes while the economy is still recovering from a recession.

Obama said Sunday he is willing to work with Republicans "but these games have to stop."

He also said, "And given how high unemployment is right now, we've got to act. We can't just be engaged in the usual partisan bickering here in Washington."

Congress was scheduled to be on a recess this week, but lawmakers haven't solved a dispute over spending that could cause the government to partially shut down at the end of the week. 

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LinkedIn stock below, has the characteristics that have been seen in other past winning IPOs.



This darling of Wall Street bears. LinkedIn (LNKD) is a Mountain View, CA provider of a social networking platform that enables members to share their professional identity online via Linkedin.com.

EPS growth has been outstanding over the past seven quarters, with gains of 233%, 600%, 500%, 700%, 50%, and 43%. During the past eight quarters sales growth has been even more impressive with gains of 100%, 92%, 98%, 107%, 108%, 110%, and 120%. These gains are expected to continue well into the future with 2012 annual EPS estimates of 0.35 which is a 1,000%+ gain year-over-year. This huge growth is the main reason it trades at a 311 P/E which will come down during this bear market but will never be “cheap enough” to the average Wall Street investor.

Take the above growth with the company having 0% debt to shareholder equity, a cash flow of $0.41, and a Return on Equity of 88% and you clearly see why management owns 56% of the shares outstanding and 202 mutual funds already own 99% of the current unlocked float.

On top of these great numbers it is clear Linkedin has bigger ideas as it spends 26.8% on Research and Development. A very impressive number showing they are willing to come up with new products/ideas for the future.

Twitter To Open Office In Ireland -Irish Jobs Minister

Twitter To Open Office In Ireland -Irish Jobs Minister

4:47 AM ET 9/26/11 | Dow Jones

DUBLIN (Dow Jones)--Twitter Inc., the social networking site, will set up an international office in Ireland, Irish Jobs Minister Richard Bruton said Monday.

Bruton said Twitter will join companies such as Facebook, LinkedIn Corp.(LNKD), and Google Inc. (GOOG) which have already established bases in Ireland.

The move shows that, despite significant job losses, the "underlying strengths" of the Irish economy are being recognised, he said.

Twitter has yet to say how many jobs it will create in Ireland, he told Irish broadcaster RTE Radio.

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We currently have a price estimate near $600 for Googles stock, which is roughly 10% above the current market price.


With Public Beta Launch, Google+ is Bracing for War!


Since its initial launch in June, Google+ had been in the trial phase until now with the public having access through an “invite only” basis. With the social network being moved to Beta phase, Google+ is now open for all to join. The big question is whether Google can see the same accelerated growth in users that it has seen these 3 months. By the start of August itself, Google+ had around 25 million users.


It also does not seem a mere coincidence that Google’s announcement comes just 2 days before Facebook’s Developers Conference f8. Google is probably hoping to grab some eyeballs away from the f8 where Facebook is expected to reveal a host of new services, including the much-hyped music service. We wrote about this last week in a note Facebook’s Music Platform Plans Should Surface Next Week.


Interestingly, Facebook has recently incorporated certain changes, some of which look similar to a Google+ layout. For instance users can add subgroups for “Friends” such as “Close Friends”, “Acquaintances” and custom groups based on schools or other affiliations. Facebook also looks to be testing the quality, size and positioning of images on the news feed, which was just redesigned this week.


As I've been saying Social Media is about to go viral, and LinkedIn (NASDAQ:LNKD) is still a great way in!


See my blog " Sell Apple To Buy Linkedin"

Obama To Participate In LinkedIn Town Hall Meeting On Economy

Obama To Participate In LinkedIn Town Hall Meeting On Economy 

Sep 20, 2011 19:24:23 (ET)

By Jared A. Favole Of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES 


WASHINGTON (Dow Jones)--Rounding out a triumvirate of town halls with social media companies, President Barack Obama will participate in a town hall meeting on the economy that will be hosted by LinkedIn, the White House said Tuesday.

During the town hall, which will take place Sept. 26 in Mountain View, Calif., President Obama will take questions on the economy from members in the audience and LinkedIn members from around the U.S.


The town hall comes at a time when the president is taking a more forceful approach in sharing his views on how to shape the nation's economy.


LinkedIn will be the third social-media company the president has had a town hall with. He previously participated in town halls with micro-blogging service Twitter Inc. and Facebook Inc.


During the Twitter town hall President Obama became the first sitting U.S. president to send a tweet.


The White House has generally pitched these town halls as a way for the president to reach out to younger voters. LinkedIn is a network for professionals to connect with each other and look for jobs. It likely has an older customer base than the other social media companies.


-By Jared A. Favole, Dow Jones Newswires; 202.862.9256; jared.favole@dowjones.com

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Morgan Stanley, which led the IPO of LinkedIn, must really, really believe in the company. The Wall Street firm and investment funds it manages hoovered up about one-quarter of the social-networking company’s publicly available stock.


In a regulatory filing, Morgan Stanley and its asset-management arm reported owning nearly 23% of class A shares in LinkedIn.

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Welcome to The Social Media Stock Market!

By Steven Friley

On May 18th, 2011, LinkedIn (lnkd) a social media company offering an online portal connecting job seekers with potential employers, entered it’s IPO at a price tag of $45.00. This is a pivotal time in history. The Social Network, over 1 billion strong, connects the world through the use of such companies as Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter and Youtube. Google introduced its IPO in 2004 and immediately began to dominate the industry with it’s super human artificial intelligence and such products and Google Ad Sense and Ad words. Now housing some terrific web master tools, Google (goog) the professionals say, is the exception to a theory known as the “Tech Bubble”. The writers of this blog have the opinion that the Social Network is a collection of voices from all over the world that are empowered and educated to make smart decisions, therefore debunking the theory that the Social Media Stock Market is just another bubble. We are a powerful unified voice. We hope to educate and inspire new investors and venture capitalist to learn about the factor unseen, the human factor and the law of numbers as it relates to companies such as LinkedIn claiming to have 100 million current subscribers and adding 1 new member per (second) to their following.

Social Media connects the world on a global grid. Never before in our history have we as a collective people, been able to reach across the world to a new market to show our product or service. Virtual professionals are showing their talents, creating their own financial abundance, and shining despite the media stating we are in a downward economic spiral. The economy is a state of mind which can be altered with effort. When we develop the mindset of success and abandon the mindset of scarcity or failure, our world will thrive. Social Media makes this happen. There is great power in the numbers of a billion voices saying “We are ready to take control of our future”.

         We are the Voices of The Social Network!

Some Interesting Facts:

Facebook has over 500 million users of which 74 million log in every second.

LinkedIn has over 100 million users

The law of large numbers adds an edge to trying to evaluate social media stocks.

The Social Media Stock Market – New Investor !

Does The Stock Market Confuse You?

Now that we are able to communicate with so many people so easily, and news through the media, traditional and social media, arrives to us within seconds, we are able to see first hand the health of our world. Stock Investing is a very personal financial decision. Because there has been so much confusion in the past over stocks, fear of a stock market crash, and overall displeasure with the status of the economy, many people may not even think about investing. New Investors now have the ability to research companies using (goog) Google, the worlds largest and most robust search engine, to find everything they need to know about a company they would like to invest in.

Take Back Control of Your Financial Decisions

Some small facts about investing that you need to know when making a heart felt decision to begin investing. (1) Companies have visible and invisible value. (2) There is both a current and future value of the company based on developing products, services or acquisitions (3) Start with one company that offers a product or service you currently use yourself. Start from there. When you begin to see first hand what these companies are doing you will develop sort of an intuition based on what you learn. Customer reports will show up on Google, the Better Business Bureau (BBB) also has a large database.

Taleo and LinkedIn Harness the Power of Social Recruiting

Taleo and LinkedIn Harness the Power of Social Recruiting 

Sep 12, 2011 08:31:14 (ET)






(MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- TALEO WORLD -- Taleo Corporation (TLEO, Trade ), the global leader of SaaS-based Talent Management solutions, and LinkedIn Corporation (LNKD, Trade ), the world's largest professional network on the Internet, today announced two new integrated features that make it simpler and faster for professionals to apply for jobs at companies using Taleo's talent management solutions, and for recruiters at those companies to hire the best talent.


Two new features work together to integrate Taleo Recruiting(TM) with LinkedIn functionality:


LinkedIn Profile Upload, which leverages Apply with LinkedIn technology, allows candidates to pull their LinkedIn profile content into a career website with the click of a button, rather than manually entering this data. This new tool cuts the time required to submit this information by allowing candidates to use their LinkedIn profile to populate work experience, education and contact information. After the profile information populates, candidates can modify or customize the information to align with the position they're seeking. For Taleo customers, LinkedIn Profile Upload improves the ability to hire top talent by increasing the size of candidate pools by reducing the drop-off rates on an application form.


LinkedIn Preview gives any recruiter and manager the ability to view LinkedIn's 120 million profiles directly through Taleo Recruiting. Taleo customers with a LinkedIn Recruiter account benefit from additional capabilities that make it easier for recruiters to collaborate with their colleagues, discover candidates, and track their progress during the application process. Firstly, they can quickly access the candidate's full LinkedIn profile and see which candidates have already been viewed by their colleagues using Taleo. Secondly, users who have both Taleo Recruiting and LinkedIn Recruiter can now instantly access Taleo profile information from LinkedIn Recruiter and open the full Taleo profile with one click.


Because LinkedIn profiles frequently feature more current information than applicant data stored in a candidate database, the new integration capabilities make life easier for both candidates and recruiters by ensuring candidate data is up to date. This also helps companies pinpoint and engage passive candidates who, while not actively applying for jobs, maintain LinkedIn profiles that reveal they possess critical skills for hard-to-fill jobs.


"As more and more information is stored in the cloud, accessing that information to apply for a job should be much simpler than it has been to date as candidates have had to enter the same information again and again as they submit multiple applications," said Jason Blessing, executive vice president of Products and Technology at Taleo. "At the same time, recruiters wanting to engage with LinkedIn members have had to toggle between LinkedIn and Taleo to learn more about their candidates. The latest release of Taleo Enterprise gives recruiters the right information at the right time while relieving both of these challenges


.""Our integration with Taleo further reveals how professional networking can connect the best candidates with employers," said David Hahn, vice president, product management, at LinkedIn. "We're proud to work with Taleo to bring these capabilities to those LinkedIn members looking for their next job, and to the Taleo Enterprise customers looking to engage with them.


"Launching with the latest release of Taleo Enterprise, which was also announced today, LinkedIn Profile Upload and LinkedIn Preview are available from LinkedIn.


I n-Depth Review at Taleo World Attendees of Taleo World can learn more about the integration of Taleo Recruiting and LinkedIn Recruiter in a one-hour breakout session at 1:30 pm today in the Imperial A room of the Hilton San Francisco Union Square. The session will offer an in-depth review of the new capabilities, while exploring additional joint research areas for future integration. The session will feature presentations by Cathy White, senior product manager at Taleo, and Prasad Gune, director of corporate solutions products at LinkedIn.


About LinkedIn Founded in 2003, LinkedIn connects the world's professionals to make them more productive and successful. With more than 120 million members worldwide, including executives from every Fortune 500 company, LinkedIn is the world's largest professional network on the Internet. The company has a diversified business model with revenues coming from member subscriptions, marketing solutions and hiring solutions. Headquartered in Silicon Valley, LinkedIn also has offices across North America, as well as throughout Europe, Asia and Australia.




About Taleo Taleo (TLEO, Trade ) helps organizations improve the performance of their business by unlocking the power of their people. Taleo is the only company to provide industry leading solutions in every category of Talent Management. Through its cloud-based platform, Taleo optimizes recruiting, performance management, learning and compensation -- and integrates them all so managers have the insights they need to achieve Talent Intelligence. Customers also plug into Taleo's unique Talent Grid community to harness the power of proven best practices, millions of users, and Taleo-ready partner solutions. From small and medium sized businesses to large enterprises, more than 5,000 organizations rely on Taleo every day to pursue growth, innovation and customer success.


Forward-looking Statements This release contains forward-looking statements, including statements regarding the demand for and benefits from the use of Taleo's solutions and general business conditions. Any forward-looking statements contained in this press release are based upon Taleo's historical performance and its current plans, estimates and expectations and are not a representation that such plans, estimates, or expectations will be achieved. These forward-looking statements represent Taleo's expectations as of the date of this press release. Subsequent events may cause these expectations to change, and Taleo disclaims any obligation to update the forward-looking statements in the future. These forward-looking statements are subject to known and unknown risks and uncertainties that may cause actual results to differ materially. Further information on potential factors that could affect actual results is included in Part II, Item 1A of Taleo's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q, as filed with the SEC on August 8, 2011, and in other reports filed by Taleo with the SEC.

LinkedIn's Profit & Jobs Connection!

Jeff Weiner, chief executive officer for LinkedIn Corp., talks about the company's second-quarter profit reported (http://video.cnbc.com/gallery/?video=3000036190) and growth strategy. The largest professional-networking website said profit excluding certain costs was $10.8 million, or 10 cents a share.

The Social Media Stock Market: LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner on Profit, Growth, IPO!

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LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner on Profit, Growth, IPO!

Jeff Weiner, chief executive officer for LinkedIn Corp., talks about the company's second-quarter profit reported (http://www.bloomberg.com/video/73580322/) and growth strategy. The largest professional-networking website said profit excluding certain costs was $10.8 million, or 10 cents a share. Weiner speaks with Betty Liu and Jon Erlichman on Bloomberg Television's "In the Loop." (Source: Bloomberg).

Clavier Says LinkedIn's IPO Unlocks Company's Potential!

Jeff Clavier, founder and president of SoftTech VC, discusses LinkedIn Corp.'s initial public offering today and the outlook for IPOs by other social media companies. LinkedIn is the largest professional-networking website. Clavier speaks with Margaret Brennan on Bloomberg Television's.









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Clavier Expects Zynga Valuation to Rise With an IPO

Zynga is the creator of Farmville, a gaming app that millions of people play on Facebook. 


Believe it or not, it's amazing how the Social Media Stock Market has entered into this sector.








Jeff Clavier, founder and president of SoftTech VC, talks about the possibility of an initial public offering by Zynga Inc. Zynga, the biggest maker of games on Facebook, may file for an IPO by the end of June, a person familiar with the plans said. Ritter speaks with Deirdre Bolton and Matt Miller on Bloomberg.




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LinkedIn, Pandora Stocks Are Perking Up!

By Shira Ovide

At its highest price on the day of its IPO last may, LinkedIn’s market value was an eye popping $11.6 billion — or about 30 times the annualized pace of its revenue this year. By comparison, Apple is trading at less than 5 times the estimates of its annual revenue.


Pandora, which has a business model that seems to render it nearly incapable of turning a profit, had broken below the price of its IPO weeks ago. But after selling its debut shares at $16 each, and then seeing shares drop as low as $12.16 in recent days, Pandora is today in the $15 range.


To be sure, the share prices of Pandora and LinkedIn have been on roller-coaster rides, made more volatile by a very small number of shares out there for investors to buy (and sell). It’s entirely possible that anytime the overall market starts to show small doses of optimism, any one with short positions in these stocks is getting squeezed, putting some loft into stock prices.


But for backers of LinkedIn and Pandora, they’ll take the stock-price gains. 

Morgan Stanley Makes Big Bet on LinkedIn

By Shira Ovide

Morgan Stanley, which led the IPO of LinkedIn, must really, really believe in the company. The Wall Street firm and investment funds it manages hoovered up about one-quarter of the social-networking company’s publicly available stock.


In a regulatory filing, Morgan Stanley and its asset-management arm reported owning nearly 23% of class A shares in LinkedIn.


UPDATE: A person familiar with the matter said the vast majority of the Morgan Stanley LinkedIn stock was purchased in the open market, rather than as part of the IPO.


That means that clients in Morgan Stanley funds are likely underwater on the LinkedIn investment so far. As Deal Journal previously noted, LinkedIn shares are trading at their lowest point since the company’s much heralded stock debut. That means on their financial statements. (However, Morgan Stanley and other investors who were allocated stock in the IPO did very well. The company went public at $45 a share.)


Morgan Stanley and its funds hold nearly 2 million shares, or $148 million worth of LinkedIn stock with a price of $73.93 a share. The holdings may represent nearly one-quarter of LinkedIn’s publicly available stock, but the stock holdings are a dinky percentage of about 2% or so of the company overall.


Only a small percentage of LinkedIn’s stock was offered to the public in the IPO, and the small float may have contributed to the volatility in LinkedIn stock. Presumably, the Morgan Stanley funds bought and have held onto their LinkedIn shares, which means there is an even smaller float that is being traded furiously in LinkedIn.