LinkedIn sets up its first research and development center outside North America in India

Sina Science and technology news Beijing time November 15 night, LinkedIn opened a research and development center in Bangalore, India, in Tuesday, the first research and development center outside North America for the social networking site. In a statement, LinkedIn said the research center will support and operate the infrastructure of LinkedIn, a technology architecture that will be used to build the core products and capabilities of LinkedIn.　　But LinkedIn declined to disclose its specific input to the new research and Development center. LinkedIn was founded in 2003, according to Deep Nishar, senior vice president of the company's product and user experience, which currently covers about 200 countries with users reaching 135 million, of which 83 million are active users, Dipp Nichard.　　LinkedIn's IPO (initial public recruitment) six months ago was sought after by investors. Nichard said that LinkedIn currently has 12 million users in India, one of which is mostly active users, based on the number of users, India is the second largest market for LinkedIn, after the United States.　　LinkedIn currently has about 45 million users in the United States. Nichard points out that LinkedIn has a lot of room to expand its user base in India as the number of Internet users in India is growing rapidly. In India, LinkedIn has a number of sales offices and a new technology center with more than 70 employees. LinkedIn also plans to recruit 25 to 30 network engineers, software developers and database administrators in India. (OAK)