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While we encourage collaboration, we also embrace individual thinking and creativity. For example,
one of our key approaches to attracting and retaining technical talent and fostering continued
innovation is through our company-sponsored ‘‘inDays’’ and ‘‘hackdays’’ where our employees are
encouraged to take the time to explore and implement new ideas. Participants then present their ideas
in front of the whole company with prizes awarded for the best ideas. Some of our significant new
products have been developed as a result of inDays and hackdays.
Information about Segment and Geographic Revenue
Information about segment and geographic revenue is set forth in Note 14 of the Notes to
Consolidated Financial Statements under Item 8 of this Annual Report on Form 10-K.
Seasonality
Our business is affected by both cyclicality in business activity and seasonal fluctuations in Internet
usage. We believe our rapid growth has masked the cyclicality and seasonality of our business. As our
revenue growth rate slows, we expect that the cyclicality and seasonality in our business may become
more pronounced and may in the future cause our operating results to fluctuate. In particular, we
expect new business and renewals of Talent Solutions to be stronger in the fourth quarter of the year
due to budgetary cycles and our Marketing Solutions business to be stronger in the second and fourth
quarter of the year in alignment with industry advertising spending.
Available Information
Our website is located at www.linkedin.com, and our investor relations website is located at
http://investors.linkedin.com/. The following filings are available free of charge through our investor
relations website after we file them with the SEC: Annual Reports on Form 10-K, Quarterly Reports on
Form 10-Q, and our Proxy Statements for our annual meetings of stockholders.
We webcast our earnings calls and certain events we participate in or host with members of the
investment community on our investor relations website. Additionally, we provide notifications of news
or announcements regarding our financial performance, including SEC filings, investor events, press
and earnings releases, and blogs as part of our investor relations website. Investors and others can
receive real-time notifications of new information posted on our investor relations website by signing up
for email alerts and RSS feeds. Further corporate governance information, including our certificate of
incorporation, bylaws, governance guidelines, board committee charters, and code of conduct, is also
available on our investor relations website under the heading ‘‘Corporate Governance.’’ The contents of
our websites are not intended to be incorporated by reference into this Annual Report on Form 10-K or
in any other report or document we file with the SEC, and any references to our websites are intended
to be inactive textual references only. We have used, and intend to continue to use, our investor
relations website, as well as our website (www.linkedin.com), the LinkedIn page
(https://www.linkedin.com/company/linkedin), our Twitter feed (https://twitter.com/linkedin) and our
corporate blog (www.blog.linkedin.com), as a means of disclosing material non-public information and
for complying with our disclosure obligations under Regulation FD.
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