German Media Giant Burda Buys 25% Stake In XINGBREAKING: German media giant Burda has used its digital arm to purchase a 25.1% share in XING, the business social network that is biggest in Germany and competes with LinkedIn. The 1,323,041 shares were sold to Burda by Cinco Capital, the... |
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PR Newswire: Financial | November 04, 2009
Qiao Xing Universal Telephone, Inc. Restructured Its 2006 Unsecured Convertible Notes
...Inc. Restructured Its 2006 Unsecured Convertible Notes /PRNewswire-Asia-FirstCall/ -- Qiao Xing Universal Telephone, Inc. (Nasdaq: XING) (the "Company") announced today that the Company has completed the restructuring of its unsecured...
In this article: Safe harbor, Securities and Exchange Commission, Nasdaq, and China
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MSDN | November 02, 2009
Kommen Sie zum SCRUM DAY 2009 vom 1.-2. Dezember in Dusseldorf
...Thinking und agile Softwareentwicklung. Die Keynote hA¤lt Scrum-Pionier Joseph Pelrine. In spannenden Sessions von Microsoft, IBM, O2, XING und anderen Unternehmen erfahren Sie das Neueste zu brandaktuellen Themen wie aEURzScrum in...
In this article: Microsoft, Lean Thinking, and IBM
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Wikipedia | October 28, 2009
XING
...June 2007, Xing purchased the Spanish social networking business Neurona. . Neurona users were migrated to Xing on March 31, 2008. In January 2008, Xing purchased the Turkish social networking business Cember. . Cember.net users were migrated...
In this article: Outlook Express, Accenture, Europe, Web 2.0, Econozco, McKinsey, and LinkedIn
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Centre Daily Times | September 28, 2009
Livebookings Secures New Funding with Wellington Partners
...the most successful pan-European venture capital firms. Currently working with digital media companies such as Adconion, Enqii, Qype, and Xing, its speciality is supporting young and developing companies to grow internationally and maximise...
In this article: Livebookings, Europe, Venture capital, The Ivy, and London
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Wall Street Journal: Politics and Policy | September 13, 2009
Free Speech, Now that Speech Is Free
...of directors of ProQuest and Blurb and is on the board of advisors of several early-stage companies, including SocialMedian (sold to XING), UpCompany, Halogen Guides, YouNoodle, Peer39, SkyGrid, ExpertCEO and Clickability. He is an investor...
In this article: Hillary Clinton, Gordon Crovitz, First Amendment, Federal Election Commission, Dow Jones, Citizens United, YouTube, Supreme Court, and FEC
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washingtonpost.com | August 31, 2009
Shares In XING Soar On Buyout Rumors - Is LinkedIn Interested?
Why are shares in XING, the German-born business social network that competes most with LinkedIn in Europe, skyrocketing? Rumors are reaching me that prominent stakeholders in XING - current and former employees - are taking advantage of...
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Techcrunch | July 22, 2009
XING Launches OpenSocial App Assault On LinkedIn
...let's face it, it has it's work cut out as LinkedIn is now worth over $1bn and has 43 million members to XING's 7.5 million. XING however is worth $213m and is publicly traded. And today XING launches a partner ecosystem based on 16...
In this article: LinkedIn, OpenSocial, Project management, EU, Rocky, and US
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Socialmedian Returns As Xing News
We recently covered socialmedian, which late last year was acquired by European business social network XING, when they introduced a nifty application on the Facebook platform that allowed its users to share personalized news from across the...
In this article: Facebook, OpenSocial, and Germany
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Read/WriteWeb | December 19, 2008
XING Acquires Socialmedian
...services on XING, one of the leading online business networks in the world." But what does this mean for XING? According to XING CEO Lars Hinrichs, Socialmedian promises to make XING's network of business people more successful -...
In this article: Hamburg, Germany
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Reuters | November 26, 2008
FACTBOX: LinkedIn, Xing winning clients as gloom spreads
...user account costing $19.95 a month, giving wider features. The company has not unveiled how many of its clients are paying members. XING had 6.5 million users at end-September, up from 4.8 million at start 2008 had 513,000 paying...
In this article: LinkedIn, Revenue, Amortization, and Tax
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XING (named openBC/Open Business Club until November 17th, 2006) is a social software platform for enabling a small-world network for professionals. The company operating it claims that it is used by people from over 190 countries, albeit the majority of users are Germans. Available languages include English, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, French, Dutch, Chinese, Finnish, Swedish, Japanese, Russian, Polish, Turkish and Hungarian. By displaying how each member is connected to any other member, it visualises the small-world phenomenon.
The platform offers personal profiles, groups, discussion forums, event coordination, and other common social community features. Basic membership is free. But many core functions, like searching for people with specific qualifications or messaging people whom one is not already connected to, can only be accessed by the premium members. Premium membership comes at a monthly fee of around 9 USD. The platform uses https and has a rigid privacy and no-spam policy. Unlike many other networking websites, XING provides its members very easy email access to any members.
OPEN Business Club AG was founded in August 2003 in Hamburg, Germany as a German limited liability company by Lars Hinrichs. The platform was officially launched on November 1, 2003. It was renamed from OpenBC to Xing on November 17th, 2006.
It gained much attention in German media and is widely used as a business-network in German-speaking countries. Membership from other countries throughout Europe and the Far East helped the network platform grow to more than 1.5 million members in July 2006.
Xing.com is a competitor with the American platform LinkedIn for social networking among businesses.
In March 2007, Xing purchased the Spanish social networking business eConozco and intends to merge its members into Xing over the next 12 months.
- Name:
- OPEN Business Club AG
- Type:
- Public, Aktiengesellschaft (AG), ISIN: DE000XNG8888, Symbol:O1BC.DE
- Location:
- Hamburg, Germany
- Founded:
- Hamburg, Germany (2003)
- Industry:
- Online social networking
- Key People:
- Lars Hinrichs, CEO and Founder, Eoghan Jennings, CFO, Daniela Hinrichs, Vice President Corporate Communications, Susan Kish, Vice President Network Advisory, Andreas Gehret, Vice President Engineering, Maren Gintzburg, Vice President Member Relations, Julika Capek, Vice President Finance, Dr. Neil Sunderland, Supervisory Board, Dr. Eric Archambeau, Supervisory Board, Bill Liao, Supervisory Board
- Products:
- Revenue:
- €19,6 million (2007)
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