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About
LinkedIn (NYSE: LNKD) is a business-related social networking site. Started in the living room of co-founder Reid Hoffman in 20021 and launched in May 2003, it is mainly used for professional networking. As of March 31, 2012, LinkedIn reports more than 161 million registered users in more than 200 countries and territories.2
LinkedIn and Business3
- As of March 31, 2012, LinkedIn counts executives from all 2011 Fortune 500 companies as members; its corporate hiring solutions are used by 82 of the Fortune 100 companies.
- More than 2 million companies have LinkedIn Company Pages.
- LinkedIn represents a valuable demographic for marketers with an affluent & influential membership.
- More than 60,000 developers are using LinkedIn APIs to create innovative tools and services for professionals, averaging over two billion API calls per month as of March 31, 2012.
- As of March 31, 2012, there are more than 400,000 unique domains actively using the LinkedIn Share button on their sites to send content into the LinkedIn platform.
- LinkedIn members are sharing insights and knowledge in more than one million LinkedIn Groups.
- In the last week of March 2012, 22 percent of unique visiting members came from mobile devices.
- As of March 31, 2012, hundreds of thousands of job applications have been submitted using Apply With LinkedIn.