Like one of its extreme-sports customers, action camera maker GoPro wowed with its third-quarter performance and fourth-quarter guidance. GoPro (GPRO) late Thursday reported Q3 earnings of 12 cents a share excluding items, compared with 1 cent a share in the same quarter last year. Sales jumped 46% to $280 million. Analysts polled by Thomson Reuters expected GoPro to earn 8 cents a share minus items on sales of $265.6 million. For
LinkedIn continued to ease slowdown concerns Thursday night with stronger-than-expected Q3 earnings and revenue growth amid gains in mobile and China. The networking site for professionals said that its revenue rose 45% to $568 million vs. a year earlier. It beat the consensus for $557.5 million, as polled by Thomson Reuters. Earnings per share minus items rose 33% to 52 cents, above estimates of 47 cents. “Internal member metrics
Facebook late Tuesday posted decelerating growth in EPS and revenue in Q3, gave a Q4 revenue outlook that missed views and said that its costs are accelerating faster than it had forecast. Facebook (FB) stock was down 10% in after-hours trading on the report. The stock, though, is up 46% this year as the company has been riding big growth in online ad sales. Facebook reported earnings per share minus items of 43 cents, up 72% from