Following its hugely successful public listing a few months back, LinkedIn is gearing up to expand its operations in India, which boasts the largest professional membership to the networking website after the US.
Yesterday, LinkedIn, with a membership of 135 million members worldwide and over 12 million in India, set up a technology centre in the southern Indian city of Bangalore -- the first centre of its kind outside its headquarters in Mountain View, California.
The company's quarterly report says it has a workforce of 100 in India across three cities, Mumbai, New Delhi and Bangalore. The company which entered in India in late 2009 has 1,797 employees worldwide.
The Bangalore R&D centre, expected to employ around 35 engineers by the end of this year, would help build and operate the core products and applications of the company.
LinkedIn started operations from the living room of ex-PayPal executive Reid Hoffman in 2002. The professional networking site makes money selling premium subscriptions to its members and helping companies with hiring and marketing.
A number of companies in India like HCL Technologies Ltd and ING Vysya Bank Ltd use LinkedIn's hiring solutions, while others such as Jet Airways Ltd and Volkswagen AG use its marketing products in India.
LinkedIn is bullish on India, which has 100 million internet subscribers, and hopes that the increasing use of the internet by businesses for recruitment and the rapid rollout of 3G services would attract users in greater numbers to drive growth.
Deep Nishar, senior vice president of products, said mobile formed a key part of the LinkedIn strategy with the company's products available on every conceivable mobile device. He added it was the company's fastest growing segment.
According to Hari Krishnan, country manager, LinkedIn India, India's 85 million strong white-collar professional community formed a huge potential market.
He said LinkedIn aimed to capture the entire potential market in India.
Meanwhile the site is looking to hire infrastructure engineers for operational roles at its new research and development centre in Bangalore. ''LinkedIn currently has 20 people in the centre and plans to have 35 by the end of this year,'' Ganesh Krishnan, head, Technology Centre at LinkedIn India, said at a press conference.
The professionals would work on development of infrastructure on which all of LinkedIn's operations worked, he added.
Yesterday, LinkedIn, with a membership of 135 million members worldwide and over 12 million in India, set up a technology centre in the southern Indian city of Bangalore -- the first centre of its kind outside its headquarters in Mountain View, California.
The company's quarterly report says it has a workforce of 100 in India across three cities, Mumbai, New Delhi and Bangalore. The company which entered in India in late 2009 has 1,797 employees worldwide.
The Bangalore R&D centre, expected to employ around 35 engineers by the end of this year, would help build and operate the core products and applications of the company.
LinkedIn started operations from the living room of ex-PayPal executive Reid Hoffman in 2002. The professional networking site makes money selling premium subscriptions to its members and helping companies with hiring and marketing.
A number of companies in India like HCL Technologies Ltd and ING Vysya Bank Ltd use LinkedIn's hiring solutions, while others such as Jet Airways Ltd and Volkswagen AG use its marketing products in India.
LinkedIn is bullish on India, which has 100 million internet subscribers, and hopes that the increasing use of the internet by businesses for recruitment and the rapid rollout of 3G services would attract users in greater numbers to drive growth.
Deep Nishar, senior vice president of products, said mobile formed a key part of the LinkedIn strategy with the company's products available on every conceivable mobile device. He added it was the company's fastest growing segment.
According to Hari Krishnan, country manager, LinkedIn India, India's 85 million strong white-collar professional community formed a huge potential market.
He said LinkedIn aimed to capture the entire potential market in India.
Meanwhile the site is looking to hire infrastructure engineers for operational roles at its new research and development centre in Bangalore. ''LinkedIn currently has 20 people in the centre and plans to have 35 by the end of this year,'' Ganesh Krishnan, head, Technology Centre at LinkedIn India, said at a press conference.
The professionals would work on development of infrastructure on which all of LinkedIn's operations worked, he added.
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