Patrick Nouhailler

The 6 largest lenders may post an average profit increase of 57 % for 2011

Source : http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/MI-BM895_MKTLED_NS_20120103184804.jpg  - http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-01-04/bank-earnings-increase-57-in-analyst-forecasts-which-proved-wrong-in-2011.html

Salary in the Social Media Industry

 

Infographic courtesy mindflash.com 

- Salary in the Social Media Industry and a 5 minute guide to Getting a Job in Social Media

 

LinkedIn’s Road to IPO

 

   Professional networking site LinkedIn had its initial public offering Thursday, with shares of the company debuting on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol LNKD.

 

 

Shares of LinkedIn soared to more than double their offering price in the company’s IPO on the New York Stock Exchange on Thursday morning.

LinkedIn began trading around 10:00 a.m. ET under the symbol LNKD and quickly surged to above $90 per share. The company had priced its shares at $45 each on Wednesday ahead of the IPO, and the move significantly higher now values the company at more than $8 billion.

 

 

http://mashable.com/2011/05/19/linkedin-ipo-infographic/

LinkedIn Raises $352.8 Million

 LinkedIn: The firm’s IPO is becoming a spectacle for Silicon Valley start-ups and investors, providing the first test of whether the public markets can sustain the soaring private-market valuations of social-media companies. [WSJ] Related: In an echo of the era when day traders scrambled in and out of technology stocks during the 1990s, wealthy individual investors are flocking to a new crop of Internet darlings, pushing the values of those companies sky high. [WSJ] Related: LinkedIn may deserve a valuation that more closely resembles those of business-software makers such as Salesforce.com Inc. than Facebook. [Bloomberg]

 

http://blogs.wsj.com/deals/2011/05/18/deals-of-the-day-should-linkedins-valuation-resemble-salesforce/?mod=google_news_blog

 

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-05-18/linkedin-raises-352-8-million-in-ipo-as-shares-priced-at-top-end-of-range.html