LinkedIn, the world's largest professional social networking site, is a social network (SNS) for business customers. It was established in February 2002 and started in 2003. It was listed in the United States on May 20, 20 1 1, and its headquarters is located in Mountain View, California, USA.
The purpose of the website is to let registered users maintain the contacts they know and trust in their business dealings, commonly known as "contacts". Users can invite people they know to become people in the "network" circle. Now the number of users has reached 200 million, and a new member joins every second on average. On February 25th, 20 14, the simplified Chinese version of LinkedIn website was officially launched, and the Chinese name was announced as "LinkedIn".
LinkedIn China announced that a workplace social App based on real identity was independently developed by a local team? -"Red Rabbit" is online. [ 1]?
On June 3rd, 20 16, Microsoft's official blog announced that Microsoft and LinkedIn had reached a final agreement, and Microsoft would acquire all shares and net cash of LinkedIn at the price of 196 USD per share, totaling 26.2 billion USD.
In 20 17, BrandZ ranked among the top 100 most valuable brands in the world, and LinkedIn ranked 79th with1359.4 billion USD.
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Baidu encyclopedia. Baidu Encyclopedia [reference time 20 17- 12-22]