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LinkedIn Will Be a Billion-Dollar Business

By Tim Beyers – Nov 8, 2012 at 4:32PM EST

The third-quarter numbers are even better than most investors think

Shares of LinkedIn (LNKD +0.00%) are trading off more than 2% since reporting better-than-expected third quarter results. Is that really fair? The overall business grew 81% in the third quarter as Talent Solutions, the segment that caters specifically to the needs of corporate and third-party recruiters, accounted for 55% of revenue. All signs point to LinkedIn joining Facebook (FB +0.39%) and salesforce.com (CRM +0.69%) as the three dominant suppliers of social software and services. Find out more in the video below.

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Tim Beyers
Tim Beyers is a Senior Investment Analyst and Lead Advisor at The Motley Fool. Tim leads the signature Rule Breakers investing service and co-leads Motley Fool Supernova’s Odyssey mission, a real-money portfolio designed to help individual investors build and manage a portfolio of Rule Breaker stocks. He also serves as a portfolio lead for Cloud Disruptors and is a contributing stock analyst for the Trends team. Tim has over 20 years of professional investing experience, including 17 years as an analyst for the market-beating Rule Breakers service and three years as its lead advisor.
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