Beepmo Mobile App to Provide Professional Networking Service for Next Bank Asia Conference
Back in February we told you about Beepmo, which at the time had just launched in public beta. The mobile service is billed as an Asia-focused location-based social network which targets professionals. By using information from your LinkedIn (NYSE:LNKD) account, it populates your Beepmo profile so you can use the service.Despite the fact that Beepmo is just a few months old, we got word today from founder Simon Lower that the service will has partnered with the Next Bank Asia Conference (in Singapore, May 9th to 10th) to provide ...
LinkedIn Announces Latest Asia Push, a New Office in Hong Kong
LinkedIn (NYSE:LNKD) today announced the opening of a new office in Hong Kong, the company’s ninth office in the Asia Pacific region and 25th office globally. The new office will support the nearly half a million members in Hong Kong, as well as “the millions of members in the North Asia region.”As LinkedIn already has offices in India and Japan, the North Asia reference almost certainly refers to China where the network has over two million members, the third most in the Asia Pacific region after India and Australia. (Note ...
LinkedIn Launches Japanese ‘Navi’ Site
LinkedIn (NYSE:LNKD) is continuing its strong Asia push, having passed the 25 million user mark in the APAC region back in February. The service officially launched in Japan back in October, and opened an office there as well. And just yesterday the company launched a LinkedIn Navi site, in an effort to more fully explain the service to potential Japanese users.The site can be accessed at jp.navi.linkedin.com, and from there users can find out what LinkedIn is, and how to use it and benefit from it. There is also a ...
LinkedIn Hits a Milestone in the Philippines
We’ve been watching LinkedIn’s (NYSE:LNKD) growth in Asia over the past year or so. Just last month the network announced it had reached 25 million users in the Asia Pacific region. While the vast majority of those users are in India, the network is making progress in other Asian nations.Today the company announced that it has just hit the one million members milestone in the Philippines. This brings the Southeast Asia’s representation on LinkedIn up to about four million. According to Clifford Rosenberg, the company’s managing director for Australia, ...
LinkedIn Records 25 Million Users in APAC, Grew By 25 Percent
20 million was the number of LinkedIn (NYSE:LNKD) users in Asia Pacific (APAC) last publicly announced. Just four months later, today, the figure has grown by 25 percent to 25 million. We were told that four million of the users originate from Southeast Asia. Singapore, though small, boosts about 700,000 members island-wide. The growth in Southeast Asia was likely triggered by LinkedIn’s recent language localization move, which provides users with LinkedIn in Indonesian, Bahasa Malaysia, and Korean languages.There aren’t any plans for China so far, as Arvind Rajan, managing director ...
Beepmo: A New LBS Social Network for Professionals in Asia
Beepmo describes itself as “a location-based social network for business professionals focused on Asia.”All users have to do is to key in their LinkedIn login to start using the mobile app. Beepmo helps professionals to track other professionals who are nearby. If you find someone whom you wish to meet, simply connect with him/her, and then send a message to arrange a meeting/coffee. The app also has an “ice breaker” feature that helps you to find out who are your common friends on LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter. It could be ...
Coffee Chat: Running LinkedIn Singapore like a Startup
This post is a part of our coverage of Startups in Asia (Singapore), Penn Olson’s first tech conference. Our full coverage of the event can be found here, for our RSS feed, click here.Summary Penn Olson founder Willis Wee talked with LinkedIn APAC VP Arvind Rajan about running LinkedIn like a startup. Arvind talked about how he focuses heavily on taking the time to hire the right team.They also talked about LinkedIn's expansion, which has kept Arvind on the road nearly 80 percent of the time over the past few months. As for the ...
LinkedIn Advises Users to Banish CV Buzzwords – Here’s Your Top 10, Singapore [INFOGRAPHIC]
The Infographic of the Day series visually expresses important stories from Asia and the world of technology.Motivated. Dynamic. Innovative. Three much-used - indeed, overused - adjectives on many people’s CVs. There are other resumé regulars, too - such as “interpersonal skills,” “track record” - that have become cliché and tiresome, used unthinkingly, and which are blasts from the past that really ought to be avoided like the plague and used few and far between. D’oh!LinkedIn (NYSE:LNKD), the business-oriented social network, has picked through the buzzwords on the profiles of its ...
LinkedIn Now in 3 New Languages: Bahasa Indonesia, Bahasa Malaysia, and Korean
Update: We asked why LinkedIn has decided to go with Indonesian, Bahasa Malaysia, and Korean first. And here's the team's take: Malaysia, Indonesia and Korea represent a huge growth area in Asia and we’re tremendously excited to help millions of local professionals establish their professional identity and network. The addition of three new languages is the latest step in our strategy of making LinkedIn a more relevant experience for our growing professional member base around the world. We believe there is a lot we can learn from our local members that ...
Running LinkedIn Singapore Like A Startup [PREVIEW]
Arvind Rajan, LinkedIn’s Managing Director for the Asia Pacific region is an experienced entrepreneur, corporate leader, and also an advisor. And we’re of course glad to have him at Startup Asia Singapore held on 3 February 2012 for a coffee chat, not at Starbucks but live on stage.I met Arvind a couple of times just to chat and to get to know him better as a friend. He is a nice chatty guy and also a person I go to when I need advice.When in our chats, one of the ...
Hubblr: A New Dashboard for Global Social Marketing – China Included
There are a lot of social media dashboards out there that try to bring together your social missives, but only one includes integration with China’s hippest social network - that’s Hubblr.It’s a brand-new, enterprise-oriented web app from an Australian start-up that’s aimed at making PR and online marketing across the globe - including China - a safer and slicker experience.Hubblr’s CEO and co-founder, Michael Lam (pictured right), gave me a guided tour over Skype, and then we coincidentally ran into each other again at TC Disrupt Beijing last week, giving ...
LinkedIn Launches in Japan, Poised for 20 Million Users in Asia
We all knew this was coming from news earlier this year, but we were a bit taken by surprise just now to learn that LinkedIn (NYSE:LNKD) held a press conference today to announce its Japanese launch as well as its new office in Tokyo.The AP quotes LinkedIn’s head of operations in the Asia Pacific region, Arvind Rajand, as saying:We think there are tremendous opportunities for growth not only in Japan but in entire region … If you look at LinkedIn’s business as a whole around the world, we ...
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