Socialmedian acquired by business network Xing
European business networking site Xing has acquired socialmedian, a service created by former Jobster chief executive Jason Goldberg to share and discuss news stories. Goldberg’s blog post announcing the deal doesn’t name a price, although a couple of sites say it was for $4 million… Continue Reading
Business sites XING, ZoomInfo, combine social network, search
European business networking site XING and U.S. business search service ZoomInfo are introducing a way to bring their two continents’ worth of business contacts together to challenge rival LinkedIn as well as more general social networks like Facebook.
Starting tomorrow, XING members will be able to… Continue Reading
Xing releases new features, in challenge to LinkedIn
Two days ago, we reported that LinkedIn had finally added profile pictures to their features list. Now a competitor, Xing, is announcing a slew of new features.
Xing already had profile images. Its users will now have the ability to include more personal information on their… Continue Reading
The rush to people search: Viadeo, ZoomInfo, Yahoo China, Spock…and PeekYou
For years, technology to search for people has been neglected, compared to most parts of the Web. Until now, that is.
A wave of new entrants are making it much easier to find out everything about a person, from their job, to their personalities, their age… Continue Reading
Xing integrates with ZoomInfo, in move to overtake LinkedIn
(Updated with initial LinkedIn response)
Xing, the Hamburg, Germany social networking site for business contacts, has just signed a deal that makes its network larger than it U.S. competitor LinkedIn.
It has announced a partnership with ZoomInfo, the largest fact-checked proprietary database in the world, of some… Continue Reading
LinkedIn raises $12.8M to build out professional network
LinkedIn, the networking site for professionals connect, has raised $12.8 million in venture funding.
The venture capitalists, Silicon Valley’s Bessemer Venture Partners and the European Founders Fund (EFF), an internet focused firm, placed a value of more than $250 million on the Palo Alto company, after… Continue Reading