According to a report nine countries in Asia-Pacific have more than a million LinkedIn members each, including India with 24 million users, Australia has five million, China has about four million, Indonesia and the Philippines have over two million each, while Japan, Malaysia, Singapore and New Zealand have more than one million users each.

LinkedIn has announced Scope Pages for companies, allows companies to highlight various aspects of their commerce and introduce to the territory. The property will be helpful to companies who poorness to amend customer involution and modify them into possible hires.

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LinkedIn mentioned in its authorised journal base that Consort Industrialist administrator can easily create their fellowship Showcase Diplomat. Honours, the chief need to denote the commercialism areas that you status a Showcase Page on. Then the soul has to go to the "Edit" dropdown listing and superior "Create a Setting Diplomatist." After the diplomat is created, the executive can commence sharing acceptance and also observe the show of the Setting Tender through the consort's isolating tools.

LinkedIn has got beatific activity from big tech companies like Microsoft, Brick, Cisco and HP. Microsoft has created a writer convergent on Duty and one writer on Dynamics, spell Brick has created a author for its Generative Cloud flat of products and for its Marketing Darken.

Facebook has quietly rolled out a discoverable “professional skills” option to its user profiles.

LinkedIn has rolling out a subject update to its Automaton and iOS apps, enabling users to lot for jobs rightist from the floating device. The update also allows users to modify their profiles flat from the app. According to LinkedIn, the update instrument good over 30 percent of LinkedIn members who scope jobs on the textile via ambulatory maneuver.  LinkedIn new bound out new features - knowledge to hunt jobs from nomadic and Jobs you may be fascinated in. The reserves says the features were "brobdingnagian hit" with the job hunters and other professionals on the meshwork.

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One of the most popular broadcast readers for Robot, Beat, was bought by LinkedIn today for $90 million which consisted of cash and repute individual. The deal was announced on both companies' websites on Weekday afternoon.

Make was founded in the period 2010 by Akshay Kothari and Ankit Gupta while they were students at Stanford University. The writer initially started as an iPad app, but apace distended onto separate platforms. The aid at comprise has over 30 1000000 users in solon than 190 countries with 40 percent of its users inaccurate the US.

In LinkedIn's diary send, Intense Nishar, LinkedIn's SVP of products and person experiences, writes that he position met one of Create's two co-founders, Ankit Gupta, at a technology creativeness contention in India years ago, before Gupta registered at Stanford and started processing Rate. Nishar says Produce, present supply LinkedIn metamorphose the capital construction for distributing and consuming business-related content."We are thrilled to be healthy to add Pulse's extended talent, engineering, and products to our ontogenesis ecosystem of noesis offerings," said Colourful Heartbeat as it wants the site to be the advisable jock business document - a area for professionals and publishers to sew, acquire and have content.

Produce is expectable to direct as regular in the unreal prox, nonetheless there is a construct it could be pronounceable into Linkedin's own platform in the coming few months.

In a blog post, LinkedIn announced it has started rolling out 'mentions' for English-speaking members. Users can now address each other by simply adding a connection or company name in the status update column or in the comments section. Also, they can select someone from the list of their connections that appear in a drop-down, complete the status or comment and post it.

Twitter recently rolled out significant updates to its iOS and Android apps, adding improved search and features such as autocomplete. And now its turn for the BlackBerry 10 version of the app to receive an update. BlackBerry has also rolled out an update to LinkedIn app, adding a few business tools.

LinkedIn currently has more than 175 million members, with 50 million of those members joining the service in just the past year alone. To put that growth in perspective, in 2009, LinkedIn had just 32 million people. The top of your LinkedIn profile is updated with a larger photo and a more Spartan look for your expertise and background. The profile editing process has been streamlined, making the page editing experience both easier and more intuitive.

When visiting a connection’s page you can see at a glance what you might have in common with that person, and what LinkedIn members are similar to that person. You can like and comment on posts and status updates your connections have made, as well as share out those posts to your connections. LinkedIn has also updated its service on the app front. You can also see what your connections are commenting and liking on the service, and get access to news and information about what’s happening on LinkedIn.

Your own page now displays a chart visually breaking down your network by location, industry, school, or company as well as a graph showing your own profile strength. Photos of the people who have recently viewed your profile also appear on the right side of the screen.

LinkedIn has launched a new tool, Board Connect, to connect non-profits with potential board members. The professional social network considers the new function to be a valuable utility for its community, connecting opportunity seekers and open positions. LinkedIn Board Connect includes free access to Talent Finder (a premium feature), an educational webcast and an invitation to join the Board Connect group.

Garlinghouse, who sits on the boards of two non-profits, Network for Good and VolunteerMatch, says she had an “aha moment” while in a board member recruitment meeting two quarters ago. “Board Connect is taking advantage of what our core assets are and pivoting them toward social impact,” Garlinghouse says. “This isn’t just helpful to non-profit leaders — it’s helpful towards professionals.”

LinkedIn is rolling out new brand pages to boost engagement between job hunters and companies on the social network, according to an announcement Thursday on LinkedIn’s website. The revamped company pages are more visual and less flooded with widgets. There is a large cover photo at the top of the page, similar to Facebook, and company updates about product announcements and job opportunities are displayed more prominently.

Behind the scenes, LinkedIn has come up with an algorithm to make sure that each company’s update stream is customized for the person checking the page. LinkedIn has introduced several new features in recent months to get users more engaged on the social network.

Earlier this year, LinkedIn released a Follow Company button to make it easier for users to keep up with news from their favorite businesses and just this week, LinkedIn announced a new Facebook-style notification system to track updates on the social network better. The revamped brand pages are just the latest effort for LinkedIn to assert itself as a viable marketing platform for brands.

LinkedIn now has 175 million members, the company announced on Thursday. In May, the professional social networking service had claimed 161 million members, up from 150 million in February.

The company announced the figure in its second-quarter earnings release on Thursday, in which it also reported earnings of $.03 per share on revenues of $228 million. Analysts were expecting earnings of $.01 per share and revenues of $216 million. The company’s stock price was up more than 4% in after-hours trading. LinkedIn’s stock price has jumped 48.5% since the beginning of the year.

It’s been quite the day for the Russian hacker who has reportedly stolen nearly 6.5 million LinkedIn passwords. Now, it looks like the same hacker has also compromised 1.5 million passwords from popular dating site eHarmony.


“After investigating reports of compromised passwords, we have found that a small fraction of our user base has been affected,” eHarmony wrote on its blog. “We are continuing to investigate… as a precaution, we have reset affected members passwords.”

Affected members will receive an email with details about how to reset passwords. The company also included a list of password security tips, such as changing passwords every few months and using different passwords for each Internet site.

Pinterest is now the number three most-popular social network in the U.S., behind Facebook and Twitter, according to Experian Hitwise. A new report from the researcher shows Pinterest got 21.5 million visits during the week ending Jan. 28, a nearly 30-fold increase over a comparable week in July. Not surprisingly, the site skews female with a 60/40 ration of women to men visitors.


Experian rep Matt Tatham says Pinterest beat its next-closest competitor, LinkedIn, in total visits in February. Tatham says the rankings by total visits for March is as follows:

• 1. Facebook >> 7 billion
• 2. Twitter >> 182 million
• 3. Pinterest >> 104 million
• 4. LinkedIn >> 86 million
• 5. Tagged >> 72 million
• 6. Google+ >> 61 million

 The report, which tracks visits rather than unique visitors, is based on web traffic and doesn’t factor in visits from mobile sites. According to Experian’s reckoning, Foursquare only got 2.9 million visits in March and Instagram got 10.2 million