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Ecademy: user blogs (Free subscription) | 07/03/2008
Prelude: This is fiction. Any characters or persons mentioned below are fictional and similarities with real characters or companies are plain accidental. One day the general manager of XING Road Sign Ltd. Australia stumbled across XING, Germany's favourite social business network and decided to create an account and promote his business that way. A couple of months later some competitor informed...
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paidContent:UK (Free subscription) | 05/19/2008
Hamburg-based business social network Xing may have just 5.7 million users against LinkedIn's 21 million, but the site has plenty of grunt to front up on an acquisition trail that has seen it buy three European biz nets in the last 14 months. "We can spend at least 40 million euros (£31.9 million). We see in other European countries, we see opportunities in America, we see opportunities in a strategic...
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Styledash (Free subscription) | 05/17/2008
Filed under: Designers Forget Facebook and Myspace (and Bebo and Linked in and Xing...) if you're a funky fashionista who wants to publicize your talent and break into the industry in a big way, you may find the best way forward is to apply for Project Runway sign up to the most fashion-forward social networking site on the net. FashionSpace has over 20,000 members in 120 countries, and could mean...
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Ecademy: user blogs (Free subscription) | 05/03/2008
Put the following in order of importance for you: Ecademy, Xing, Ryze, Facebook, LinkedIn, Viadeo Kind Regards Mehul Shah Managing Director XS Online Ltd t. 0845 612 2828
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Market Wire (Free subscription) | 04/25/2008
SAN FRANCISCO, CA and HAMBURG, GERMANY (MARKET WIRE) XING (www.xing.com) today announced a new feature with which its members can view the distribution of their business network with Google Maps. The integration of Google Maps into the XING platform gives members a new perspective on their personal network, visualizing geographic locations of their direct business contacts on a map or satellite display....
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openPR.com Newsfeed (Free subscription) | 04/25/2008
Business networks can be now visualized geographically SAN FRANCISCO, U.S. and HAMBURG, GERMANY, April 25, 2008 – XING (www.xing.com) today announced a new feature with which its members can view ... read more
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NetGuido (Free subscription) | 04/17/2008
What are the social networking sites pros where you are currently present? We use predominantly Viadeo because we want customers and partners in France mainly, but have also created profiles (which are in fact those of the company), linkedin, xing, 6nergies, facebook, and so on. What are your activities, your level of involvement on these [...]
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TechCrunch UK (Free subscription) | 03/28/2008
XING, the German-born social network for professionals which has spread across Europe and Asia and now competes with Silicon Valley’s LinkedIn, has released its annual report and the numbers look pretty good. It’s met its annual guidance for 2007 with revenues of €19.61 million ( about $30.98 million) and the member base increased by over [...]
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Oliver Thylmann's Thoughts (Free subscription) | 03/18/2008
I am starting to figure out that the only social network I am really using often is Xing. This is for one simple reasons: It is becoming my address book. This is really what Xing should be focussing on in my mind. Marketplace and all is nice, but there is an amazing value to be [...]
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Harold Jarche (Free subscription) | 03/17/2008
Social networks are everywhere and the “monetization” word is becoming part of the discussion, as this recent RWW post shows. I’ve used several of these networks, such as Spoke which I haven't accessed for a couple of years. For business, the leader in North America is LinkedIn, while Xing has a solid presence in Europe. [...]
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Sean Price dot net /blog (Free subscription) | 03/16/2008
I’ve been a long time user of LinkedIn the professional social network and after reading an article on Techcrunch today I decided to sign up to Xing another similiar service. Friend me up on LinkedIn http://linkedin.com/in/seanprice and on XING http://xing.com/profile/Sean_Price2
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Ecademy: user blogs (Free subscription) | 03/10/2008
Do you also get so many unpersonalised requests to connect with someone on LinkedIn, Ecademy, Xing, Ryze or another online business network? With "unpersonalised" I mean a message like the default message from LinkedIn: "I'd like to add you to my professional network on LinkedIn." This might work with the people you already know pretty well and who also use LinkedIn, but what with all the others? Although...
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The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 02/28/2008
SAN FRANCISCO, CA and HAMBURG, GERMANY -- 02/28/08 -- -- Over 60 percent more paying members in a single year -- XING has more members who choose to pay for Premium functions than any other social network in the worl..
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Business World (Free subscription) | 02/26/2008
A SURPRISE witness in the Senate hearings on the scandal-tainted National Broadband Network (NBN) contract with Chinese firm Zhong Xing Telecommunications Equipment Co. Ltd. (ZTE Corp.) yesterday directly linked President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo and her husband Jose Miguel T. Arroyo who allegedly benefited from alleged multimillion-dollar kickbacks.
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Mashable (Free subscription) | 02/19/2008
It looks like all those acquisitions in the past year paid off. European professional social network Xing is reporting 5 million registered members worldwide, and significant growth in paid subscribers. The strongest growth, in fact, over the entire history of the company. With revenues reaching $28.74 million for the 2007 fiscal year, [...]
