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As an unlimited company, LinkedIn no longer reveals information such as its turnover and profit figures as well as how much tax it pays in Ireland. Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images
Professional social networking site LinkedIn has become the latest multinational to opt to keep its financial performance to itself, following its decision to register as an unlimited company with the Companies Registration Office (CRO).
Twitter, which recently announced that it would expand its Dublin operation, increasing staff numbers to around 200 by the end of this year, is another multinational which is registered as an unlimited company in Ireland.
LinkedIn recently filed its accounts for 2012 with the CRO, but as an unlimited company it no longer reveals information such as its turnover and profit figures - as well as how much tax it pays in Ireland. While an unlimited corporate status can bring with it increased risk, as the personal assets of the principal parties can be drawn upon to settle debts or claims against the business, this can be offset by wrapping an Irish unlimited company into a parent company with limited protection that is outside the EU, such as the Isle of Man or Jersey.
In its most recent published accounts, for the year to December 31st 2011, LinkedIn reported a loss of 6 million on sales of 133 million, according to Top1000.ie. As such, it paid no corporation tax in 2011, while a loss of 3.7 million in 2010 meant that it also paid no tax in that financial year.
The company employs more than 100 people on Sir John Rogersons Quay in Dublin, alongside other tech giants Google and Facebook.
More militaries and armed groups are using social media as a weapon of war -- but when ground skirmishes are mirrored by cyber-social battles, managing the message can get messy.
Ahmed Jabari never saw the missile that killed him. As he drove past parked cars and empty intersections on a leafy street in Gaza City in November 2012, a drone circling high overhead took aim at the roof of his nondescript sedan and fired.
In the chaos that followed, little did anyone know that reducing Jabari and his car to a cloud of shrapnel and dust marked the beginning of Israel's Operation Pillar of Defense. Within hours, the Israel Defense Forces made sure hundreds of thousands of people found out.
A senior Hamas military leader whom Israel accused of involvement in several terror attacks, Jabari was a strategic target for the Israeli military in its eight-day air and ground offensive against Hamas' Gaza stronghold.
Shortly after Jabari was killed, the IDF broke the news by uploading a brief, silent, black-and-white video of the airstrike to YouTube. It then took to Twitter to say "Ahmed Jabari: Eliminated" and posted a follow-up on Facebook with a photo of Jabari titled "IDF Begins Widespread Campaign on Terror Sites in the Gaza Strip," inviting its followers to "stay tuned for updates."
"Our blessed hands will reach your leaders and soldiers wherever they are (You Opened Hell Gates on Yourselves)," the Al Qassam Brigades tweeted.
From this point forward, the world was given a couple of front-row tickets -- each with a decidedly one-sided view -- to watch as the conflict was live-tweeted between these bitter enemies.
Operation Pillar of Defense wasn't the first time that feuding armed groups used social media to broadcast a war. Militaries and militias have skirmished virtually in Syria, Bahrain, Egypt, Libya, Kenya, Somalia, and elsewhere. But the Israel-Palestine conflict is such a hot-button issue that it was easy for the IDF and Hamas to capture the world's attention. It also was the first time that actual physical hostilities were mirrored by cyber-social battles for hearts and minds.
Palestinians extinguish the fire that engulfed Ahmed Jabari's car after the airstrike.
When the IDF fired up its interactive media branch in December 2009, it started with a few videos on YouTube. Nowadays, it manages nearly 30 platforms speaking six languages: Hebrew, Arabic, English, Spanish, French, and Russian.
Keynote Systems, the expert in internet and mobile cloud monitoring, monitors the top 11 UK social networking sites on a monthly basisand analyses how these sites perform compared to their competitors. By Robert Castley.
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The homepages for the social media networks improved performance-wise in December compared to November. In terms of response time, the sites were 0.1 seconds faster, resulting in the average load time decreasing from 2.27 seconds 2.17 seconds. Reliability also improved and the successful load rate increased from 99.66 to 99.71 percent.
In particular, Pinterest and LinkedIn both improved the experience they offered to users. Pinterest saw its most significant improvement in response time, where the homepage took an average of 1.4 seconds to load in December compared to 1.53 seconds in November. For LinkedIn, reliability improved the most, increasing from 97.75 percent in November to 98.27 percent in December. LinkedIn is, however, still performing much worse than the other sites in terms of availability, as all the other sites are achieving at least the 99 percent recommended minimum load success rate month on month. Flicker was the only site to perform noticeably worse in December, as visitors were left waiting an additional 0.12 seconds for the site to load, amounting to 2.36 seconds total average load time. The site was also less reliable, falling from a 99.97 percent successful load rate in November to 99.51 percent in December.
It was great to see the social media sites performing so well during the busy Christmas period. For a good customer experience sites should load in under two seconds and correctly more than 99 percent of the time. Only one site failed to reach the 99 percent goal LinkedIn and the overall index average response rate became closer to the recommended two second mark 2.17 seconds in December. The site performance success over the Christmas period could be due to a couple of causes; the sites may have ramped up their capacity to cope with demand over Christmas, or perhaps this is an indication of social networking trends. There may have been less traffic to the social media sites during the Christmas period because people may have been more concerned with meeting friends and family in-person, and this would have reduced strain on the homepages. It will be interesting to see how the sites perform in January, when the seasonal Christmas pressure is off and many people return to work and university.
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Performance of social networking sites – Index from Keynote Systems for December 2013