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Fight! LinkedIn Launches German Site Against Local Player Xing

Tue, Feb 3rd, 2009

LinkedIn is launching a dedicated site for Germany where local - and floated - business network Xing predominates. The Guardian reports that LinkedIn had significant growth with sites for Spain and France last year - 200,000 users in two months and France hit 700,000. It has a an existing 500,000 in Germany, 80% of whom are usinng the site for English connections.

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