Social Networking Stock, FriendFinder Networks (NASDAQ:FFN), Up over 11% on Online Dating Industry Forecasts

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Social Networking Stock Alert: LinkedIn (NYSE:LNKD) Trades Up on Fourth Quarter News

New York, New York - February 10, 2012 - www.InvestorIdeas.com, a global investor research portal, specializing in sector research including tech stocks issues an investor alert for social networking and media stock, LinkedIn Corporation (NYSE:LNKD). The stock is trading up at $84.64 8.25(10.80%) 10:10AM EST, with a morning high of $86.10. The Company reported its financial results for the fourth quarter and fiscal year ended December 31, 2011 on the close yesterday.

Summary of Results

• Revenue for the fourth quarter was $167.7 million, an increase of 105% compared to $81.7 million for the fourth quarter of 2010
• Net income for the fourth quarter was $6.9 million, compared to net income of $5.3 million for the fourth quarter of 2010; Non-GAAP net income for the fourth quarter was $13.3 million, compared to $5.2 million for the fourth quarter of 2010. Non-GAAP measures exclude tax-affected stock-based compensation expense and tax-affected amortization of acquired intangible assets
• Adjusted EBITDA for the fourth quarter was $34.4 million, or 21% of revenue, compared to $16.3 million for the fourth quarter of 2010, or 20% of revenue
• GAAP EPS for the fourth quarter was $0.06; Non-GAAP EPS for the fourth quarter was $0.12
• For the full year 2011, revenue increased 115% to $522.2 million from $243.1 million. GAAP EPS increased to $0.11 from $0.07 and Non-GAAP EPS increased to $0.35 from $0.24. Adjusted EBITDA increased to $98.7 million from $48.0 million

"Q4 once again exceeded our expectations for member engagement and business growth. It was a fitting end to a memorable year in which we reinforced our position as the pre-eminent professional network on the web," said Jeff Weiner, CEO of LinkedIn. "We believe continued focus on our members and technology infrastructure positions us well for accelerated product innovation in 2012."
About LinkedIn (NYSE:LNKD)
Founded in 2003, LinkedIn connects the world's professionals to make them more productive and successful. With more than 150 million members worldwide, including executives from every Fortune 500 company, LinkedIn is the world's largest professional network on the Internet. The company has a diversified business model with revenues coming from member subscriptions, marketing solutions and hiring solutions. Headquartered in Silicon Valley, LinkedIn has offices across the globe.
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Social Networking Stocks Continue Run with Facebook Frenzy; FFN, GRPN, LNKD, RENN

New York, New York - February 3, 2012 - www.InvestorIdeas.com, a global investor research portal, specializing in sector research including tech stocks issues an investor alert for social networking stocks for the morning of February 3rd as the Facebook IPO frenzy continues to drive the sector. Tech stocks were strong in yesterday�s session, with significant gains in the Social Media/Networking stocks.

Facebook�s pending $5 Billion IPO has investors buying into the sector ahead of its market debut expected in May. Most retail investors know the chance of participating in the IPO are slim and none so they are entering the game with some of the other well known players in the space.
Social Networking stocks Snapshot Trading February 3rd
FriendFinder Networks Inc. (NasdaqGM: FFN) is becoming a best friend to investors this week, trading up again this morning, at 1.3950, up 0.0650(4.89%) 9:54AM EST with a high of $1.47
Groupon, Inc. (NASDAQ: GRPN) is trading up at $23.79, up 0.71(3.07%)
Linkedin Corporation (NYSE:LNKD) is moving up, trading at $79.93, up 2.95(3.83%)
Renren Inc. (NYSE: RENN) is gaining in morning trading, at $5.66, up 0.24(4.43%) 9:58AM EST
SINA Corporation (NASDAQ:SINA) is trading at $76.26, up 0.96(1.27%)
Zynga Inc. (NASDAQ: ZNGA) is running, trading at $13.24, up 0.85(6.90%)
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Social Networking Stocks Snapshot Following Wednesday's Filing of Facebook IPO; FFN, LNKD, RENN, SINA Trade Up

New York, New York - February 2, 2012 - www.InvestorIdeas.com, a global investor research portal, specializing in sector research including tech stocks issues an investor alert for social networking stocks for February 2nd, following the S1 IPO filing of Facebook Inc, ( Facebook.com) yesterday. The Company is raising $5 Billion in its IPO and intends to start trading in May.

The filing shows revenue of over $3.7 Billion for 2011, up significantly from 2010 revenue of $1.97 Billion.
According to the S1 filing, Facebook had 845 million Monthly Active Users MAUs as of December 31, 2011, an increase of 39% as compared to 608 million MAUs as of December 31, 2010.
Facebook had 483 million daily active users (DAUs) on average in December 2011, an increase of 48% as compared to 327 million DAUs in December 2010. It also had more than 425 million MAUs who used Facebook mobile products in December 2011. There were more than 100 billion friend connections on Facebook as of December 31, 2011. Also noted; users generated an average of 2.7 billion Likes and Comments per day during the three months ended December 31, 2011.
Stocks in the sector are trading up on higher than usual volume on the Facebook boost.
Social Networking stocks Snapshot Trading Snapshot:
FriendFinder Networks Inc. (NasdaqGM: FFN) is trading up at $1.25 0.11(9.65%) with a high of $1.30
Linkedin Corporation (NYSE:LNKD) is trading at $76.41, up 4.04(5.58%) 12:11PM EST with a high of $77.83
Renren Inc. (NYSE: RENN) is trading higher at #5.59, up 0.58(11.58%) 12:16PM EST on volume of over 15 Million shares. The high of the day so far is $5.74.
SINA Corporation (NASDAQ:SINA) is trading up at $75.71 up 1.82(2.46%) with a high of $77.80
The Global X Social Media Index ETF (NasdaqGM: SOCL) that tracks the sector is trading up at 14.99, up 0.40(2.74%) 12:20PM EST.
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How Do You Like Them Apples? Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) Closes up over 6% on News of Highest Quarterly Revenue and Earnings Ever

New York, New York - January 26, 2012 - www.InvestorIdeas.com, a global investor research portal for independent investors, issues a trading and news alert for Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) for January 25 th. The Company reported record revenue and earnings and the stock closed at $446.66, up 26.25(6.24%) on over 34 Million shares, with a high of $ 454.45.
Apple reported financial results for its fiscal 2012 first quarter which spanned 14 weeks and ended December 31, 2011. The Company posted record quarterly revenue of $46.33 billion and record quarterly net profit of $13.06 billion, or $13.87 per diluted share. These results compare to revenue of $26.74 billion and net quarterly profit of $6 billion, or $6.43 per diluted share, in the year-ago quarter. Gross margin was 44.7 percent compared to 38.5 percent in the year-ago quarter. International sales accounted for 58 percent of the quarter's revenue.
The Company sold 37.04 million iPhones in the quarter, representing 128 percent unit growth over the year-ago quarter. Apple sold 15.43 million iPads during the quarter, a 111 percent unit increase over the year-ago quarter. The Company sold 5.2 million Macs during the quarter, a 26 percent unit increase over the year-ago quarter. Apple sold 15.4 million iPods, a 21 percent unit decline from the year-ago quarter.
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AirTouch Communications (OTCBB: ATCH) Is Profiled in Levine's MicroCap Investor

NEWPORT BEACH, CA - January 17, 2012 (Investorideas.com Newswire) - AirTouch Communications, Inc. (OTCBB: ATCH) (www.airtouchinc.com), which designs and markets wireless telecommunications devices, today announced that the company has been profiled by Josh Levine in his MicroCap Investor newsletter. The article is available at http://www.levinesmicrocapinvestor.com/.

The company's strategy is to capitalize on the accelerating trend of wireless rather than landline service in the U.S. and the growing wireless network around the world, particularly in regions of the globe that are underserved by landlines, such as the developing BRIC countries, Brazil, Russia, India and China, plus Latin America and Africa.
Mr. Levine states that AirTouch will offer devices capable of converging traditional landline, cellular and internet services to provide a gateway terminal for homes and small businesses. AirTouch owns patents that cover a combination of cordless telephone technology and wireless signal amplification.
AirTouch, which designs and markets wireless communication solutions using the cellular network, has developed a cordless phone that amplifies the signal up to 10 times that of a mobile phone. The advantages of a cordless phone with multiple handsets are combined with the benefits of a cellular phone for the home and small business. In addition to voice and text messaging, the AirTouch device provides the user with Internet access.
The company launched its first CDMA multiple handset, dual mode (cellular/landline) phone in 2010 for home and office and it has been increasing awareness and deployment through the Verizon Wireless independent seller network. The company has a strategic partnership with Brightpoint, its third largest shareholder.
AirTouch has set forth an aggressive strategy which includes building relationships to supply its innovative products to China Mobile, Telmex and TelCel/American Movil, some of the largest global telecommunications carriers, Levine said. In line with this strategy, the company has established a joint venture in Shenzhen, AirTouch China, hired David Lee as Head of Sales in China, Carlos Isaza as Head of Sales in Latin America and Tom Quan as EVP Global Sales & Marketing. In addition, AirTouch will be leveraging the capabilities of Elephant Talk Communications. Under this initial agreement, ETAK will provide a full Mobile Virtual Network Enabling (MVNE) system for AirTouch to launch its services in the U.S. Levine said.
Levine said that within 18 to 24 months, AirTouch expects to be able to roll out wireless triple-play services. Meanwhile, he said, the company is configuring its technology to run on a major mobile operating system. With a new OS in place, AirTouch will have the capability to develop many software services and enable a broad range of applications to be developed by third parties, built around AirTouch devices.
About AirTouch® Communications
AirTouch® Communications, Inc. is engaged in the development and marketing of patented telecommunications devices capable of converging voice, data, video, security, entertainment and other advanced communications services from various service providers on one piece of hardware. We currently hold three patents for our unique combination of cordless telephone technology and wireless signal amplification which enables consumers and business to access voice, data, and other applications and services over the cellular wireless network. For further information about AirTouch Communications, please visit the web site: www.airtouchinc.com.
Forward-Looking Statement
This press release contains forward-looking statements. These statements relate to future events or our future financial performance, including but not limited to statements regarding the success of our relationships with Brightpoint, Verizon Wireless and Elephant Talk, the future distribution and sale of our telecommunications devices to the Chinese market, the demand for our telecommunications devices in the U.S., China and other developing countries, and our ability to obtain purchase orders from carriers including Verizon Wireless, Telmex, or China Mobile. These statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause our or our industry's actual results, levels of activity, performance or achievements to be materially different from any future results, levels of activity, performance or achievements expressed, implied or inferred by these forward-looking statements including but not limited to the absence of any purchase orders, agreements or commitments at this time on the part of any carrier to purchase our telecommunications devices, the risk that our telecommunications devices may not be accepted by the U.S. market and markets in other developing countries and those other risks set forth in our registration statement on Form S-1 filed with the SEC on September 29, 2011. In some cases, you can identify forward-looking statements by terminology such as "may," "will," "should," "could," "would," "expects," "plans," "intends," "anticipates," "believes," "estimates," "predicts," "projects," "potential" or "continue" or the negative of such terms and other comparable terminology. These statements are only predictions based on our current expectations and projections about future events. You should not place undue reliance on these statements. Actual events or results may differ materially. We undertake no obligation to update any of the forward-looking statements after the date of this release to conform those statements to reflect the occurrence of unanticipated events or otherwise, except as required by applicable law.
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Stock to Watch for 2012: Elephant Talk Communications (AMEX: ETAK)

POINT ROBERTS, December 27, 2011 - InvestorIdeas.com, a global investor research portal for independent investors, issues an investor alert on tech stock Elephant Talk Communications Inc. (AMEX: ETAK). The stock is trading at $2.96, up 0.24 (8.82%) 12:40PM EST on over 500,000 shares.
Josh Levine of the MicroCap Newsletter (www.levinesmicrocapinvestor.com) says this is a stock to watch in 2012; poised to be a microcap stock of the decade.
"ETAK and its 100%-owned ValidSoft subsidiary are aligned with pivotal trends of the emerging transaction-based mobile cloud with market-ready solutions. Together, they are capable of scaling revenues to a billion dollars and more within four years" says Josh Levine.
About Elephant Talk Communications

About ValidSoft
ValidSoft is a subsidiary of Elephant Talk Communications Corp. (AMEX: ETAK), (www.elephanttalk.com) and is a market leader in providing solutions to counter electronic fraud relating to card, the internet, and telephone channels. ValidSoft's solutions are at the cutting edge of the market and are used to verify the authenticity of both parties to a transaction (Mutual Authentication), and the integrity of the transaction itself (Transaction Verification) for the mass market, in a highly cost effective and secure manner, yet easy to use and intuitive. For more information, please visit (www.validsoft.com).
About Elephant Talk Communications
Elephant Talk Communications Corp. (AMEX: ETAK) is an international provider of business software and services to the telecommunications and financial services industry. The company enables both mobile carriers and virtual operators to offer a full suite of products, delivery platforms, support services, superior industry expertise and high quality customer service without substantial upfront investments from clients. Elephant Talk provides global telecommunication companies, mobile network operators, banks, supermarkets, consumer product companies, media firms, and other businesses a full suite of products and services that enables them to fully provide telecom services as part of their business offerings. The company offers various dynamic products that include remote health care, credit card fraud prevention, mobile internet ID security, multi-country discounted phone services, loyalty management services, and a whole range of other emerging customized mobile services. For more information, visit (www.elephanttalk.com).

Elephant Talk Communications "The MicroCap of the Decade" - Josh Levine

That's what analyst and editor Josh Levine of the MicroCap Investor (www.levinesmicrocapinvestor.com) called Elephant Talk Communications Inc. (ETAK.OB) in a recent update.
"When I go down my checklist of requirements for microcaps, Elephant Talk rates an "A" for each important item. But for all of the impressiveness of its technical capabilities, one characteristic that I find especially appealing is the sheer determination of its management to take on the very complex challenges of making it all work."
Josh explains that ETAK's technologies address a $150 billion global problem: It has the only real-time solution for the global credit and debit card fraud epidemic.
At the time of a transaction, whether it's in a store or at an ATM, its solution enables banks and credit card companies to make a decision about the transaction's legitimacy in less than a second. Amazingly, it's proved it makes the correct decision every single time!
The pivotal moment comes when the first global bank goes 'live' with a significant number, maybe 100,000 customers, and is prepared to continue scaling from there.

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Date: December 1, 2011
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