Tech Five: Shares of Twitter sliding

Shares of the social network were down Monday following reports of potential changes to how it organizes tweets on user timelines.

Let's look at tech stocks to watch Monday:

Twitter. The company created a stir among its users following a Buzzfeed report the company planned on introducing an algorithm to reorganize tweets instead of the standard, reverse-chronological order. Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey denied changes would land this week, but did not rule out the company refining timelines. The uproar arrives as Twitter prepares to report fourth quarter earnings Wednesday. Analysts polled by S&P Capital IQ Consensus Estimates project Twitter will report earnings of 12 cents a share on $709.97 million in revenue.

LinkedIn. Shares of the social network for professionals continued their slide after closing Friday with one of the worst one-day plunges in company history. LinkedIn's first-quarter outlook fell well short of Wall Street expectations, leading to the massive selloff.

Verizon. Chairman and CEO Lowell McAdam told CNBC the telecommunications giant is considering a bid for Yahoo. Last year, Verizon acquired media company AOL for $4.4 billion.

Yelp. The online recommendations service reports fourth quarter earnings after the bell Monday. Analysts project revenue of $152.3 million with earnings of 12 cents per share, according to S&P Capital IQ.

Microsoft. The tech giant signed a licensing deal with GoPro for file storage and "other system technologies," according to a statement from Microsoft.

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