LinkedIn Thursday Online Japanese website expands Asia market

Sina Science and technology news Beijing time October 20 afternoon, LinkedIn launched the Japanese version of the website in Thursday, this is the professional social networking site, the first Asian language platform, they hope to further expand the Asian market.　　Following the establishment of Asia-Pacific headquarters in Singapore in May this year, LinkedIn set up an office in Tokyo. Arvind Rajan, the LinkedIn Asia operations director, Avender Raja that Japan is an important market because the latter has experienced technology staff. Raja said: "Not only Japan, but also other regions have huge growth opportunities." Looking at LinkedIn's global business, we think it touches only the very surface of the market (and there is great potential for growth). "LinkedIn currently has a global user capacity of 120 million, of which 20 million are located in Asia and the South Pacific region." LinkedIn currently offers 10 languages, and more will be available in the future.　　Early this year, they launched the Russian, Romanian and Turkish version of the Web site.　　Raja says LinkedIn is not focusing on Japanese market revenues, and is now aiming to increase the number of Japanese users and launch services that meet local demand.　　But compared with the openness that LinkedIn and other American social networks have advocated, Japanese staff are more accustomed to anonymous logons, and LinkedIn's foreign-company attributes hinder the process of establishing online professional identity visits to websites in Japan.　　LinkedIn says they are learning about the Japanese market and will launch local products and services for Japan.　　LinkedIn has been publicly traded this year, and its IPO is the largest by the US internet company 2004 years after Google. LinkedIn reported Better-than-expected quarterly earnings in August, with both user and revenue growth, but share prices have wandered. (Xiao Ming) to share: