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    LinkedIn opens European office

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    Mike Butcher is the European Editor for TechCrunch. A former grunge rock drummer, he became a long time journalist, and has since written for UK national newspapers and magazines including The Financial Times, The Guardian, The Times, The Daily Telegraph and The New Statesman. Mike is also a co-founder and shareholder of TechHub, a co-working space/service/community with several locations... → Learn More

    Thursday, January 24th, 2008
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    LinkedIn has opened its first European office in London, clearly reflecting the growth of the professional social network in the UK and Europe. Kevin Eyres, formerly MD of travel site SideStep Europe and GM of AltaVista, has been hired as its European MD and is building a sales and marketing team. LinkedIn worked with UK Trade & Investment and its regional partner, Think London, in setting up here.

    In October of last year, LinkedIn signed up its millionth member in the UK, its largest market outside the US, and currently has some four million members in the rest of Europe. Local European competitor Xing, based in Germany, has around 3 million members in total currently.

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    • http://digitalbiographer.com David Petherick

      Interesting blog yesterday about this by Thomas Power at http://www.ecademy.com/node.php?id=97503 where he points out that LinkedIn are targetting the “starched white collars” in their positioning.

      However, I still can’t find out where the hell the office actually is – haven’t these people heard of Google local or Google Maps?

    • Sam

      How long before LinkedIn buys Xing?

    • Mike Butcher

      David – The Linked in London off will be in Marylebone I gather. Don’t know exact address.

    • Wake up Mike

      Where is the story on Yabb? I thought you would have the exclusive already? And where is the follow up on the ‘Irish Times ‘Blog of the week’ award which went to Paul “I love me” Walsh for http://paulfwalsh.com/blog/

    • Joe Charakupa

      Don’t worry about Yabb, Mike.

      Seems cominded want us to jump through hoops to find out what it is Yabb does.

      Paul has the exclusive and he is following their line. I can’t be ar**d to sign up THEN find out.

    • Mike Butcher

      Sorry guys, I’ve been ill.

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      [...] keep thinking LinkedIn would do well to expand its service in the job search area. btw – LinkedIn have opened a UK office and now have over 1 million members in the [...]

    • http://www.twidox.com Nicholas

      Sam,

      The question is not when will LinkedIn buy XING, if anything, it will be the other way around. XING have purchased cember.net, the largest network for business contacts in Turkey with 280,000 members and also acquired a 100% interest in Neurona (www.neurona.com), the largest contact online business network in Spain and Latin America. So, they are the once buying.

    • http://barryclassic.wordpress.com/2008/01/28/linkedin-takes-next-step-towards-business-social-networking-dominance/ LinkedIn takes next step towards business social networking dominance? « letters from digital media

      [...] towards business social networking dominance? Posted January 28, 2008 As reported by Techcrunch UK, business networking goliath LinkedIn has made the jump from the US and opened their first [...]

    • http://uk.techcrunch.com/2008/02/08/ecademy-the-ten-year-old-business-social-network/ TechCrunch UK » Blog Archive » Ecademy – the ten year old business social network

      [...] By way of contrast the most expensive premium version of LinkedIn – which recently launched a European office here – costs $50 a month. Ecademy wants to roll out the BlackStar idea as a licensed business model to [...]

    • http://uk.techcrunch.com/2008/03/28/xing-hits-its-numbers-keeps-growing/ TechCrunch UK » Blog Archive » XING hits its numbers, keeps growing

      [...] (through acquisitions and organically) reaching nearly 5 million. By contrast LinkedIn has a million members in the UK and another four million across Europe. It claims to have the highest growth in paying [...]

    • Dirk Timan

      To whom it may concern! december 17th 2008

      I am desperately trying to get the office address
      of LinkedIn London.
      I have an excellent and unique (on line product & service idea/application) which “”secret”" I want to share with LI Management.
      Please feel free to contact me asap:
      Dirk Timan
      The Netherlands Tel.: 00-31-30-7853365

      • Christine Jones

        Hi Dirk
        Did you get anywhere with with finding LinkedIn’s London address? I’m very keen to contact their European Marketing Director, Cristina Hoole… Thanks for your help (and I’m curious to find out how you got on with your online product application).
        Christine +44 (0)20 71 83 0986

    • http://uk.techcrunch.com/2009/02/04/linkedin-launches-german-site-to-take-the-fight-to-xing/ LinkedIn launches German site to take the fight to Xing

      [...] traffic rose 40% in the last three months of 2008. EU managing director Kevin Eyres in London was hired last year to expand in Europe and that’s what he’s doing, [...]

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    • http://eu.techcrunch.com/2010/01/06/linkedin-opens-first-office-in-mainland-europe-based-in-amsterdam/ LinkedIn opens first office in mainland Europe, based in Amsterdam

      [...] move comes nearly two years after LinkedIn first established an office in London and appointed Kevin Eyres, previously MD of SideStep Europe and GM of AltaVista as European MD. The [...]

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    • http://eu.techcrunch.com/2010/07/21/linkedin_reaches_1_million_users_in_spain_competition_keeps_up_the_pressure/ LinkedIn reaches 1 million users in Spain, competitors keep up the pressure

      [...] 1 million out of 16 million users in Europe, a market that clearly important to the company, having opened offices in the UK in 2008 and a follow-up office in Holland for Continental Europe. The company claims that 15% of Spanish [...]

    • http://www.blogle.org/2010/07/linkedin-reaches-1-million-users-in-spain-competitors-keep-up-the-pressure/ LinkedIn reaches 1 million users in Spain, competitors keep up the pressure | Blogle.org

      [...] 1 million out of 16 million users in Europe, a market that clearly important to the company, having opened offices in the UK in 2008 and a follow-up office in Holland for Continental Europe. The company claims that 15% of Spanish [...]

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