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12 Mar 2015

LinkedIn Corporation LNKD: NYSE; Technology/IT Services & Consulting

LinkedIn Corporation

LNKD: NYSE; Technology/IT Services & Consulting
PRIMARY EXCHANGE: NYSE   OTHER EXCHANGES: Mexico, SIX Swiss Exchange, More »
 
LASTCHANGEVOLUME
At close 03/12/2015$266.42+1.47 +0.55%944.1K
AFTER HOURS 5:27 PM ET$266.420.00 0.00%
 
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News about LinkedIn Corporation, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.

Company Information

LinkedIn Corporation (LinkedIn), is a professional network on the Internet with approximately 277 million members in over 200 countries and territories. Its Free Solutions includes ability to manage professional identity, ability to build and engage with professional networks, access to knowledge, insights and opportunities and ubiquitous access. 
 
 
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The Company generates revenue across three product lines: Talent Solutions, Marketing Solutions, and Premium Subscriptions. All three product lines are sold through two channels, an offline field sales organization, which engages with both large and small enterprise customers, as well as an online, self-serve channel where it generates revenue from both enterprise customers and individual members purchasing subscriptions. On February 28, 2014, it acquired the entire share capital of Bright Media Corporation (Bright). In July 2014, it acquired Newsle Inc. In August 2014, LinkedIn Corp. acquired Bizo, Inc.
 
LinkedIn Corporation
2029 Stierlin Ct MOUNTAIN VIEW CA 94043-4655
Phone: +1 (650) 687-3600
Fax: +1 (302) 636-5454

Price Chart

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Stock Snapshot

Today's open$265.70
Wednesday's close$264.95
52-week range
 
52-week high$276.18
52-week low$136.02
Market capitalization33.4B
Avg. volume (10-day)1.1M
Shares outstanding125.1M
LNKD does not pay dividends

Key Fundamentals

P/E ration.a.
Earnings per share–$0.13
Revenue$2.2B
Profit margin–0.69%
Return on equity–0.53%
Fundamentals are for the trailing 12 months

Quarterly Earnings

Linkedin Corporation

Analyst Ratings

Buy13
 
Outperform17
 
Hold11
 
Underperform0
 
Sell0
 
Consensus Outperform
(As of 03/07/2015)

Executive Officers

ExecutiveTitle
Reid G. HoffmanChmn. since 2003
Jeffrey WeinerCEO since 2009
Steven J. SordelloCFO since 2007
Michael GamsonSr.VP
J. Kevin ScottSr.VP since 2012

Latest Insider Trades

03/02/2015
SZE DAVID
Open market or private sale of non-derivative or derivative security
Shares sold:300
Share price:$266.30
Trans. value:$79,890
03/02/2015
SZE DAVID
Open market or private sale of non-derivative or derivative security
Shares sold:513
Share price:$267.46
Trans. value:$137,207
03/02/2015
SZE DAVID
Open market or private sale of non-derivative or derivative security
Shares sold:587
Share price:$268.37
Trans. value:$157,533

Company Events

  • On February 5, 2015, LNKD announced quarterly earnings of $0.61 per share for 2014Q4, beating the consensus estimate of $0.53.

Filings

10-K
Annual Financials
February 12, 2015
10-Q
Quarterly Financials
October 30, 2014
10-Q
Quarterly Financials
July 31, 2014


Ownership Submissions

FORM 4
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UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
STATEMENT OF CHANGES IN BENEFICIAL OWNERSHIP OF SECURITIES Filed pursuant to Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, Section 17(a) of the Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935 or Section 30(h) of the Investment Company Act of 1940
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1. Name and Address of Reporting Person *
Gamson Michael
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LINKEDIN CORP [LNKD]
5. Relationship of Reporting Person(s) to Issuer
(Check all applicable)
_____ Director _____ 10% Owner
__X__ Officer (give title below) _____ Other (specify below)
SVP, Global Solutions
(Last)
(First)
(Middle)
C/O LINKEDIN CORPORATION, 2029 STIERLIN COURT
3. Date of Earliest Transaction (Month/Day/Year)
02/27/2015
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MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA 94043
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5. Amount of Securities Beneficially Owned Following Reported Transaction(s)
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6. Ownership Form: Direct (D) or Indirect (I)
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8. Price of Derivative Security
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9. Number of Derivative Securities Beneficially Owned Following Reported Transaction(s)
(Instr. 4)
10. Ownership Form of Derivative Security: Direct (D) or Indirect (I)
(Instr. 4)
11. Nature of Indirect Beneficial Ownership
(Instr. 4)
Code V (A) (D) Date Exercisable Expiration Date Title Amount or Number of Shares
Employee Stock Option (Right to Buy) $267.2 02/27/2015   A   15,018     (2) 03/01/2025 Class A Common Stock 15,018 $ 0 15,018 D  

Reporting Owners

Reporting Owner Name / Address Relationships
 Director  10% Owner  Officer  Other
Gamson Michael
C/O LINKEDIN CORPORATION
2029 STIERLIN COURT
MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA 94043
      SVP, Global Solutions  

Signatures


 /s/ Lora D. Blum, as Attorney-In-Fact
  03/03/2015
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Images of Facial recognition systems



A facial recognition system is a computer application for automatically identifying or verifying a person from a digital image or a video frame from a video source. One of the ways to do this is by comparing selected facial features from the image and a facial database.
It is typically used in security systems and can be compared to other bio-metrics such as fingerprint or eye iris recognition systems




raditional

Some facial recognition algorithms identify facial features by extracting landmarks, or features, from an image of the subject's face. For example, an algorithm may analyze the relative position, size, and/or shape of the eyes, nose, cheekbones, and jaw. These features are then used to search for other images with matching features Other algorithms normalize a gallery of face images and then compress the face data, only saving the data in the image that is useful for face detection. A probe image is then compared with the face data. One of the earliest successful systems is based on template matching techniques applied to a set of salient facial features, providing a sort of compressed face representation.





Recognition algorithms can be divided into two main approaches, geometric, which looks at distinguishing features, or photometric, which is a statistical approach that distills an image into values and compares the values with templates to eliminate variances.
Popular recognition algorithms include Principal Component Analysis using eigenfaces, Linear Discriminate Analysis, Elastic Bunch Graph Matching using the Fisherface algorithm, the Hidden Markov model, and the neuronal motivated dynamic link matching.

Software

  • Google's Picasa digital image organizer has a built in face recognition system starting from version 3.5 onwards. It can associate faces with persons, so that queries can be run on pictures to return all pictures with a specific group of people together. Picasaweb.com has also been providing a similar feature to its users.
  • Sony's Picture Motion Browser (PMB) analyses photo, associates photos with identical faces so that they can be tagged accordingly, and differentiates between photos with one person, many persons and nobody.
  • Facebook includes face recognition technology
  • Windows Live Photo Gallery includes face recognition