Investors thinking of buying a piece of Facebook after it goes public are hoping it will perform like Google, whose stock has risen 500 percent since its debut seven and a half years ago.
LinkedIn Corp.'s shares soared nearly 17 percent Friday, the biggest one-day gain since the online professional networking service's stock market debut last May.
Shares of Nuance Communications Inc. tumbled Friday, after the voice software maker reported fiscal first-quarter results that fell short of Wall Street predictions. One analyst noted that revenue growth in the company's mobile division is slowing despite the increasing popularity of smartphones.