LinkedIn Reports Big Quarter; Recruitment Surpasses Monster
LinkedIn this afternoon reported another amazing quarter, handily beating Wall Street’s expectations on every metric and surpassing Monster in recruitment revenue. So consistent has LinkedIn’s...
View ArticleLinkedIn to Sell $1 Billion More in Stock
What’s LinkedIn planning to buy? The speculation that the giant, and hugely profitable, business network is planning to make a major acquisition began moments after it announced it was planning to sell...
View ArticleMarket Hits Dice Over Third-quarter Performance
Dice Holdings, parent company of the tech career site Dice.com, took a big hit today after its third-quarter financial performance missed Wall Street’s expectations on both per share earnings and...
View ArticleLinkedIn Has Strong Quarter But Forecast Disappoints
LinkedIn lost money in the third quarter, yet on an adjusted basis, it again soared past what the financial markets were predicting, earning 39 cents a share on revenue of $393 million. But what it...
View ArticleMonster Posts Profitable Quarter Beating Wall Street Estimates
For the first time in a while, the Monster had good financial news to report this morning. Not only did it swing to a profit in the third quarter, but it earned more per share than the analysts were...
View ArticleFor $50 Million Dice Adds Hospitality, Life Sciences to Its Holdings
Broadening its reach in healthcare and gaining a foothold in the hospitality job market, Dice Holdings today announced it acquired OnTargetJobs. The $50 million acquisition adds three key niche sites —...
View ArticleDice Beats on Revenue and Offers Optimistic Forecast
Despite missing on earnings, investors gave Dice Holdings a bye this morning, liking the revenue numbers it posted for the fourth quarter of 2013 as well as what the company sees for this year. Some...
View ArticleMonster: ‘Increasingly Optimistic’ as Company Reports Strong 2013 Finish
Global job board operator Monster Worldwide reported a stronger finish to 2013 than analysts were expecting, beating their average earnings estimate by 5 cents a share and their revenue estimate by...
View ArticleLinkedIn Buys Job Matching Company as It Plans for Jobs Posting Boom
LinkedIn made a sort of history today. For the first time since going public three years ago the company’s stock price dropped even though LinkedIn beat Wall Street’s expectations for earnings and...
View ArticleJob Board Financials: A Mixed Bag Even for LinkedIn
By any measure, the first quarter was a mixed bag for the employment advertising business. The three public companies — Monster, Dice, and LinkedIn — all reported numbers that in some way didn’t hit...
View ArticleJobs Growth Slows in July, But Job Boards Don’t
Doubters may be questioning the strength of the U.S. jobs recovery after Wednesday’s announcement by ADP that 218,000 private sector jobs were created in July — lower than expected — but the job boards...
View ArticleMonster’s Weak 2nd Quarter Prompts Selloff
Although it’s much too early yet for Monster’s ambitious “three pillars” strategy to become the transformative force executives are predicting, the financial markets were hoping the company did a...
View ArticlePrivate HR Firms Are 6th in Revenue on Inc. 5000 List
Human resources firms are among the top revenue-producing sectors on this year’s Inc. 5,000 list of the 5,000 fastest growing private companies in the U.S. With an aggregate 2013 revenue of $12.13...
View ArticleDice Posts Strong Q3; Boosts Outlook for the Year
Dice Holdings, publisher of multiple niche career sites including its flagship tech site Dice.com, earned 18 cents per share on third quarter revenue of $67.6 million, besting Wall Street’s...
View ArticleLinkedIn Revenue Up; Company Says Rate Increase Coming
The LinkedIn revenue juggernaut rolled on over the summer, growing by 45 percent, with recruitment accounting for the largest share of the $568 million the company brought in from July through the end...
View ArticleMonster Names New CEO; Beats Wall Street on Earnings
Tim Yates Like so many companies these days, Monster hired a boomerang to be its new leader, announcing Tuesday morning that former CFO and current director Tim Yates will be the company’s new CEO. The...
View ArticleLinkedIn Reports Strong Finish to 2014
LinkedIn reported another winning quarter this afternoon, bringing in $643 million in the last three months of 2014, with recruiting sales accounting for 57.4 percent of the total. Both the revenue,...
View ArticleLinkedIn Stock Hammered on Lowered Expectations
LinkedIn got hammered today after it scaled back its financial outlook and reported the slowest quarterly growth since it went public in 2011. Despite another record setting revenue quarter, investors...
View ArticleJob Board Revenues, Forecasts Hint at Global Hiring Slowdown
Monster this morning reported per share earnings that again beat Wall Street expectations, though its revenue for the first quarter of the year fell short of analysts’ forecasts. The company earned 8...
View ArticleIndeed.com’s Owner Wants to Dominate By 2020
Global jobs aggregator Indeed came close to doubling its net sales revenue for the 12 months ending March 31, growing from $201.3 million U.S.) to $386.8 million (at the current exchange rate)....
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