69 Facts About LinkedIn

LinkedIn is an American business and employment-oriented online service that operates via websites and mobile apps.

LinkedIn can be used to organize offline events, join groups, write articles, publish job postings, post photos and videos, and more.

LinkedIn filed for an initial public offering in January 2011 and traded its first shares in May, under the NYSE symbol "LNKD".

In November 2009, LinkedIn opened its office in Mumbai and soon thereafter in Sydney, as it started its Asia-Pacific team expansion.

LinkedIn started its India operations in 2009 and a major part of the first year was dedicated to understanding professionals in India and educating members to leverage LinkedIn for career development.

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LinkedIn filed for an initial public offering in January 2011.

LinkedIn traded its first shares on May 19, 2011, under the NYSE symbol "LNKD", at $45 per share.

LinkedIn lost $10 billion of its market capitalization that day.

In 2016 access to LinkedIn was blocked by Russian authorities for non-compliance with the 2015 national legislation that requires social media networks to store citizens' personal data on servers located in Russia.

Microsoft would allow LinkedIn to "retain its distinct brand, culture and independence", with Weiner to remain as CEO, who would then report to Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella.

In late 2016 LinkedIn announced a planned increase of 200 new positions in its Dublin office, which would bring the total employee count to 1, 200.

In 2019 LinkedIn launched globally the feature Open for Business that enables freelancers to be discovered on the platform.

In late July 2020, LinkedIn announced it laid off 960 employees, about 6 percent of total workforce, from the talent acquisition and global sales teams.

However, LinkedIn stated that "We have investigated an alleged set of LinkedIn data that has been posted for sale and have determined that it is actually an aggregation of data from a number of websites and companies".

In July 2012 LinkedIn acquired 15 key Digg patents for $4 million including a "click a button to vote up a story" patent.

In 2013 a class action lawsuit entitled Perkins vs LinkedIn Corp was filed against the company, accusing it of automatically sending invitations to contacts in a member's email address book without permission.

In May 2017 LinkedIn sent a Cease-And-Desist letter to hiQ Labs, a Silicon Valley startup that collects data from public profiles and provides analysis of this data to its customers.

The letter demanded that hiQ immediately cease "scraping" data from LinkedIn's servers, claiming violations of the CFAA and the DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act).

The court served a preliminary injunction against LinkedIn, which was then forced to allow hiQ to continue to collect public data.

LinkedIn appealed this ruling; in September 2019, the appeals court rejected LinkedIn's arguments and the preliminary injunction was upheld.

Basic functionality of LinkedIn allows users to create profiles, which for employees typically consist of a curriculum vitae describing their work experience, education and training, skills, and a personal photo.

LinkedIn participated in the EU's International Safe Harbor Privacy Principles.

In February 2015 LinkedIn released an updated terms of use for their developer API.

In October 2008, LinkedIn enabled an "applications platform" which allows external online services to be embedded within a member's profile page.

In November 2010, LinkedIn allowed businesses to list products and services on company profile pages; it permitted LinkedIn members to "recommend" products and services and write reviews.

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In January 2011, LinkedIn acquired CardMunch, a mobile app maker that scans business cards and converts into contacts.

In October 2013, LinkedIn announced a service for iPhone users called "Intro", which inserts a thumbnail of a person's LinkedIn profile in correspondence with that person when reading mail messages in the native iOS Mail program.

LinkedIn has devised a few mechanisms to reduce the volume of spam, but recently took the decision to remove the ability of group owners to inspect the email address of new members in order to determine if they were spammers.

In December 2011 LinkedIn announced that they are rolling out polls to groups.

In November 2013, LinkedIn announced the addition of Showcase Pages to the platform.

In 2014, LinkedIn announced they were going to be removing Product and Services Pages paving the way for a greater focus on Showcase Pages.

LinkedIn maintains an internal knowledge graph of entities that helps it connect everyone working in a field or at an organization or network.

In 2014 LinkedIn retired InMaps, a feature which allowed you to visualize your professional network.

In September 2021 LinkedIn discontinued LinkedIn stories, a feature that was rolled out worldwide in October 2020.

LinkedIn is particularly well-suited for personal branding which, according to Sandra Long, entails "actively managing one's image and unique value" to position oneself for career opportunities.

LinkedIn has evolved from being a mere platform for job searchers into a social network which allows users a chance to create a personal brand.

Career coach Pamela Green describes a personal brand as the "emotional experience you want people to have as a result of interacting with you, " and a LinkedIn profile is an aspect of that.

LinkedIn allows professionals to build exposure for their personal brand within the site itself as well as in the World Wide Web as a whole.

LinkedIn's capabilities have been expanding so rapidly that a cottage industry of outside consultants has grown up to help users navigate the system.

In July 2011, LinkedIn launched a new feature allowing companies to include an "Apply with LinkedIn" button on job listing pages.

LinkedIn's Profinder is a marketplace where freelancers can bid for project proposals submitted by individuals and small businesses.

LinkedIn Top Companies is a series of lists published by LinkedIn, identifying companies in the United States, Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, India, Japan, Mexico and the United Kingdom that are attracting the most intense interest from job candidates.

Since 2015 LinkedIn has published annual rankings of Top Voices on the platform, recognizing "members that generated the most engagement and interaction with their posts.

LinkedIn publishes data-driven annual rankings of the Top Startups in more than a dozen countries, based on "employment growth, job interest from potential candidates, engagement, and attraction of top talent.

In 2008 LinkedIn launched LinkedIn DirectAds as a form of sponsored advertising.

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In October 2008, LinkedIn revealed plans to open its social network of 30 million professionals globally as a potential sample for business-to-business research.

In 2015, LinkedIn added an analytics tool to its publishing platform.

LinkedIn has used economic graph data to research several topics on the job market, including popular destination cities of recent college graduates, areas with high concentrations of technology skills, and common career transitions.

LinkedIn provided the City of New York with data from economic graph showing "in-demand" tech skills for the city's "Tech Talent Pipeline" project.

LinkedIn has been described by online trade publication TechRepublic as having "become the de facto tool for professional networking".

LinkedIn has been praised for its usefulness in fostering business relationships.

LinkedIn has inspired the creation of specialised professional networking opportunities, such as co-founder Eddie Lou's Chicago startup, Shiftgig.

LinkedIn has received criticism, primarily regarding e-mail address mining and auto-update.

In October 2016, LinkedIn acknowledged that it "really does matter who endorsed you" and began highlighting endorsements from "coworkers and other mutual connections" to address the criticism.

LinkedIn sends "invite emails" to Outlook contacts from its members' email accounts, without obtaining their consent.

LinkedIn was sued for sending out another two follow-up invitations to each contact from members to link to friends who had ignored the initial, authorized invitation.

In November 2014 LinkedIn lost a motion to dismiss the lawsuit, in a ruling that the invitations were advertisements not broadly protected by free speech rights that would otherwise permit use of people's names and images without authorization.

On May 31, 2013, LinkedIn added two-factor authentication, an important security enhancement for preventing hackers from gaining access to accounts.

LinkedIn asserts that this is related to the 2012 breach; however, there is no evidence that this is the case.

In 2017 Germany's Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution published information alleging that Chinese intelligence services had created fake social media profiles on sites such as LinkedIn, using them to gather information on German politicians and government officials.

LinkedIn has come under scrutiny for its handling of misinformation and disinformation.

German Stiftung Warentest has criticized that the balance of rights between users and LinkedIn is disproportionate, restricting users' rights excessively while granting the company far-reaching rights.

In 2020, Applied Economics published research by economists Steffen Brenner, Sezen Aksin Sivrikaya, and Joachim Schwalbach using LinkedIn demonstrating that high status individuals self-select into professional networking services rather than workers unsatisfied with their career status adversely selecting into the services to receive networking benefits.

In 2009, Syrian users reported that LinkedIn server stopped accepting connections originating from IP addresses assigned to Syria.

In February 2011 it was reported that LinkedIn was being blocked in China after calls for a "Jasmine Revolution".

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In 2016, a Moscow court ruled that LinkedIn must be blocked in Russia for violating a data retention law which requires the user data of Russian citizens to be stored on servers within the country.

In October 2021 after reports of several academicians and reporters who received notifications regarding their profiles will be blocked in China, Microsoft confirmed that LinkedIn will be shutting down in China and replaced with InJobs, a China exclusive app, citing difficulties in operating environments and increasing compliance requirements.

Since 2010 LinkedIn has contributed multiple internal technologies, tools, and software products to the open source domain.

Massive amounts of data from LinkedIn allow scientists and machine learning researchers to extract insights and build product features.