shares of duolingo inc duol rose more than 8 in the extended session wednesday after the languagelearning app company reported a narrowerthanexpected loss and sales that were above wall street expectations duolingo said it lost 29 million or 98 cents a share in the third quarter compared with a net loss of 32 million or 25 cents a share in the prioryear quarter the company pinned the wider loss on costs related to its ipo in july revenue rose 40 to 636 million the company said analysts polled by factset expected duolingo to post a loss of 102 a share on sales of 61 million the stock ended the regular trading day up 09 our performance during the third quarter was exceptional we achieved record bookings and a record number of paid subscribers with monthly and daily users also reaching alltime highs cofounder and chief executive luis von ahn said in a statement