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LinkedIn on Thursday announced it has 150 million members in its network, a 20 million increase over November.

The figure was disclosed in a press release the company issued Thursday announcing its fourth quarter and full-year 2011 results.

The company posted revenues of $167.7 million, beating the analysts’ consensus of $160 million for Q4. Adjusted profit was $0.12 cents per share, which beat analysts’ projections of 7 cents a share. LinkedIn’s stock was up more than 5% in after-hours trading.

The Q4 revenue figure was a 105% jump over the same period in 2010. Revenues for full-year 2011 was $522.2 million, a 115% increase over 2010′s $243.1 million. once again, Hiring Solutions was the company’s largest source of revenues, providing $84.9 million for the quarter. Marketing Solutions, meanwhile, brought in revenues of $49.5 million, while revenues from Premium Subscriptions totaled $33.3 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.”

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NEW YORK, Feb. 9 (UPI) — A new York City subway passenger won a free monthly MetroCard Thursday for taking a picture of the subway’s ugliest rat, officials said.

Michael Spivack’s photo of a brown-haired, boil-covered rat won the Transport Workers Union’s contest to find the ugliest subway rat, the new York Post reported.

Spivack said he encountered the rat at 3 a.m. at the Seventh Avenue station in Manhattan.

“It was so disgusting, I just thought I had to get a picture of it,” he said. “I showed it to my co-worker and she ran out of the room, it was so ugly.”

The TWU asked subway passengers to send in photographs of the ugliest rats they ran into as part of its “Rat Free Subways” campaign, a drive to bring awareness to rodent infestation in NYC subways.

Spivack said he is thankful to the rat for helping him win the free subway pass. “If he could understand me, I’d say good luck in your rat life,” Spivack said.

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​Today in subway porn we have a beautiful depiction of the ebb and flow and changing formats of the New York City subway map over the years. The only thing better than watching the map come of age to the inspirationally epic music in the video created by Gizmodo’s Matt Toder back in December (Bowery Boogie reminded us of it today) would be actually holding one of those early 1900s parchments in our hands. though, probably, we’d accidentally tear it or spill coffee on it and then get sued, so this is really better, anyway.

And, yes, we know we are transportation nerds, but isn’t there a certain frisson of delight that comes at the end, when the subway map is as familiar as an old friend frenemy? Either that or we have Stockholm Syndrome.

Fun fact: once upon a time, the train lines all started in Brooklyn. Watch the video here.

Related: The NYC Subway from Birth to Now, in one Gif

100 Years Later: The Evolution of the NYC Subway Map [Gizmodo via Bowery Boogie]

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A pedestrian waited to cross Broadway in the Financial District on Jan. 12. Heavy rains made for a wet commute for New Yorkers on Thursday morning. (Natalie Keyssar for the Wall Street Journal)

Occupy Wall Street protesters packed up after a night at the West Park Presbyterian Church on Jan. 11. the church on the Upper West Side agreed last week to house 60 to 100 protesters. (Rob Bennett for the Wall Street Journal)

Riders at the Grand Central-42nd Street subway station participated in the 11th annual No Pants Subway Ride, staged by Improv everywhere, on Jan. 8. (Marcus Santos for the Wall Street Journal)

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Firefighters responded to a fire at 33 Graham Ave. in Brooklyn. on Jan. 9. (Ramsay de give for the Wall Street Journal )

the egg sandwich at Dominique Ansel Bakery at 189 Spring St. in SoHo. (Ramsay de give for the Wall Street Journal)

Michael Arad, the designer and architect of the 9/11 Memorial, at the memorial fountain on Jan. 6. (Philip Montgomery for the Wall Street Journal )

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By Tripti Lahiri

Ask people to name an iconic image or landmark of Mumbai, and some may think of the Taj, others of the slum Dharavi.

Ask folks to do the same with Delhi, and some may suggest India Gate, others the Qutub, yet others the Jama Masjid or the malls of Saket.

Landmarks, both the grand, monumental ones and those of the more regular variety, like a hospital, are important to cities because they help to draw a mental map of a place. but it isn’t very often one gets to see how a landmark image is shaped, circulated, publicized and, eventually recognized as iconic. People who have lived in Delhi in the last decade, though, have been able to witness just that.

It’s a west Delhi roundabout that has become the site of a new symbol of the city, one that for many people seems to capture something about the character of this place. near the Jhandewalan metro stop, on the westbound line to Dwarka, a 108-foot statue of the valiant monkey-god Hanuman towers over the elevated train, which bisects the statue at its waist. if you have ever ridden west on this line, you’ll have glimpsed the statue through the windows on the left, as the train continued on to the Karol Bagh stop. if you live in Delhi and have never been on the metro, you’ve still definitely seen this image at some point in the last six years.

Photographs of that compelling juxtaposition were first used mainly with stories about the metro, which completed that part of its expansion at the end of 2005. but increasingly, the image is being used to convey something larger: “This is Delhi.”

The image appears in the 2007 coffee-table book “Delhi then and Now”; it features in the year-old sound-and-light show in Purana Qila; and it appeared in cartoon form in a recent illustration accompanying a film-maker’s article on Delhi in a Sunday magazine. Can the T-shirt be far behind?

Himanshu Sabharwal, who developed the sound-and-light show for the India Tourism Development Corporation, said one reason for including the image was a prosaic one: the shape that the statue and the metro line make together fit the monument the show was being projected on. but he also offered another reason.

“Many centuries live together in Delhi. that is, I think, the unique aspect of the city,” said mr. Sabharwal. “That was the underlying idea behind choosing that image.”

On his Flickr feed, amateur photographer Hitesh Negi echoed that sentiment, saying the picture showed “new technology and old culture.”

Of course, in this case it isn’t centuries but different decades that are rubbing shoulders. yet the image still manages to convey a sense of a city where different epochs and cultures collide, sometimes bizarrely. the Sankat Mochan Temple dates back to the 1930s – a plaque on the wall by the memorial of the temple’s founder says he had a vision of Hanuman at this spot in 1931, which led him to build the temple.

The statue, as so many of the gigantic statues of Hindu gods and antique-style temples that now dot the Delhi landscape, is of much more recent vintage – a temple priest said it was completed only around 1997.

Shivay Bhandari, the photographer who took the picture used in “Delhi then and Now,” says the statue of Hanuman has been a landmark for people in west Delhi since it was built. but for people coming from other parts of the city and crossing west Delhi, it wasn’t such a prominent feature. in many cases, car commuters may not have driven past it, or may have been too focused on the traffic to register it if they did.

“A driver wouldn’t tend to look beyond 10 feet,” he said.

But by taking train commuters overground along this route, the metro has made the statue a landmark for people who live in other parts of the city too, he suggested. And slowly, as the image circulates, it will become a marker for people, whether they take the metro and see this sight for themselves or not. Perhaps eventually it will conjure up “Delhi” for people who’ve not yet set foot in the city.

Mr. Bhandari said the photograph was one of hundreds he shot over a few days, at the instigation of Pramod Kapoor, the editor of “Delhi then and Now.” mr. Kapoor was looking for an image that would capture the “nowness” of Delhi.

Mr. Bhandari said the metro seemed the perfect way to convey that, but it was hard to get it in the same frame as other better-known landmarks that conveyed tradition, such as the Jama Masjid or the Red Fort. That’s because around these far older heritage monuments, the metro heads underground. as the statue is newer, the train was allowed to run past it on an elevated line.

“So we thought the best would be combining the metro with Hanuman,” he said. “It has an instant recall that says Delhi.”

Landmarks matter, not just because sometimes they’re beautiful or striking. they matter because they tell you where you are, and help you make some sense of large cities that can be chaotic and hard to navigate. Until 2001, you could come out of a subway in New York and by looking for the twin towers, know which way was south, without bothering to check a street sign. Of course, that’s no longer the case.

In a city that’s not built on a grid, navigational markers are even more important. ever tried giving someone directions in Delhi using the actual names of a street? Try saying “Take Lala Lajpat Rai Path” and see what happens. Instead, you need to try and evoke points on their mental map, which is hard since that map isn’t likely to be exactly the same for any two people. that means you might need to tell one person to take a left from the Oberoi Hotel, while another person may get lost unless you offer the Lodi crematorium as a marker.

It isn’t necessary for all of us to have the same maps of the city we live in – in fact that would be boring. but it’s nice to have at few common points of reference — like India Gate or Hanuman-by-the-metro — so that we know that at some level, we do actually share a city.

You can follow India Real Time on Twitter @indiarealtime.

Rockefeller Center will still be swarming with tourists checking out the brightly lit tree from 5:30 a.m. to 11:30 p.m. daily while also taking in Rockettes’ performances at Radio City Music Hall. Right turn restrictions are still in effect through New Year’s on fifth Ave. at 55th, 53rd, 51st and 47th Sts.

the Rangers take on the Islanders 7 p.m. Monday at the Garden, Seventh Ave. from 33rd to 31st Sts . Wrestling hits the Garden 7 p.m. Tuesday.

the NBA is back at the Prudential Center with the Nets hosting the Atlanta Hawks in their home opener 7:30 p.m. Tuesday in Newark. take NJ Transit from NY Penn to Newark Penn or PATH from WTC or 33rd St. (transfer at Journal Square right across the platform) straight to Newark Penn.

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For today’s Gridlock Buster Awards, we honor the folks at N.Y.C. Transit for their hard work in several initiatives underway to enhance the overall customer experience.

the Estimated Time of Arrival (ETA) Award goes to Deborah Chin, the key point person in bringing countdown clocks to nearly 200 subway stations across N.Y.C. Customers can now simply look up and see when the next train will arrive.

the Touch of a Button Award goes to Elizabeth Wooten in the Department of Subways for her important role in the development of the on the go screens that made their debut in several key subway hubs throughout the Big Apple. on the go serves as an interactive, touch screen, digital information center with info on service updates, various maps, nearby dining and entertainment options and more.

the Helping Hand Award goes to Dewey Wesley, a design manager for N.Y.C. Transit’s capital program management division, who played a lead role in bringing help Point Intercoms (HPI) into the system. HPIs are a new technology pilot program that puts straphangers with a travel question (or emergency) in touch with Transit personnel via an interactive communications device.

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