Transaction enables a abstruse jump on amalgam business account into Europe's arch business network
- Socialmedian CEO Jason Goldberg joins XING in Hamburg, Germany in the anew created position of Vice President XING Applications Platform
- The aggregation will barrage chip articles in 2009
Hamburg / New York, December 19, 2008. The about listed XING AG (O1BC / ISIN DE000XNG888) announces today it has purchased New York-based socialmedian Inc., a arch innovator in the amusing account industry. The socialmedian band-aid enables humans to get the account filtered by their amusing networks. Socialmedian debuted in 2008 and has rapidly developed a awful affianced user-base. Socialmedian is appropriately a accustomed fit with XING, a arch all-around online amusing arrangement for professionals. Socialmedian’s architect and CEO, Jason Goldberg, will accompany XING in Hamburg, Germany in the anew created position of Vice President XING Applications Platform.
"XING is a abnormally breath and avant-garde belvedere in business networking, alms absolute amount for its associates on a all-around scale. Combining XING with socialmedian’s next bearing amusing account technology offers abundant abeyant to bear awful agreeable agreeable and casework to business professionals worldwide,” said Jason Goldberg. In the new role of VP XING Applications Platform, Goldberg will be amenable for managing all-around partnerships for appliance developers and agreeable providers to affix with the XING network.
Success in business depends on acceptance to the appropriate advice at the appropriate time. The acceleration of the Internet has added both the acceleration of advice and the arduous aggregate of data. In accession to acceptable media companies, amusing media such as blogs, tweets, videos and added user-generated websites now accommodate circadian news, arch to a actual flood of information. Time-strapped professionals are larboard to anatomize through abundant account sources for accordant advice and sort, organize, and allotment belief on their own. socialmedian does this for you, acquisition advice from about 19,000 sources, including amusing casework such as Digg, Delicious, Twitter, Flickr, Facebook, YouTube, Google Reader, FriendFeed, the all-embracing blogosphere, and industry and online media sources, and again clarification your account through your amusing networking contacts. Thus enabling humans to get the account they charge to apperceive for their jobs, their interests, and their passions through the humans in their networks.
Over 6.5 actor business professionals, managers, and experts use XING to accumulate clue of advice and updates in their able network. Working with socialmedian, XING affairs to barrage several new innovations, including alms XING associates custom filtered news. “We ambition to action our associates the greatest amount in their networks, and this includes accepting the accordant account at their fingertips. Now we accept the technology all-important to do so. We're aswell aflame to accept anyone like Jason alive with us to advance the XING ecosystem of partnerships with arch companies about the world,“ said Lars Hinrichs, CEO and architect of XING AG.
XING will abide to abound and enhance socialmedian as a standalone service. There will be no abeyance for socialmedian users.
About socialmedian:
Socialmedian delivers the news, filtered by your network. socialmedian’s mission is to advice humans ascertain the account and advice they charge to accomplish at their jobs, accompany their passions and break abreast about the apple about them. Since ablution in August, socialmedian users accept created added than 2500 contemporary account networks, alignment from iPhone to attack 2008 to the all-around banking crisis, accumulation newsfeeds and user feeds from added than 19.000 sources with 800 new belief added every minute. The NY-based aggregation was founded by above Jobster CEO Jason Goldberg and is currently backed by Washingtonpost. Newsweek Interactive and arch angel investors including Gordon Crovitz, above administrator of the Wall Street Journal, Reed Hundt, above FCC Chairman and Allen Morgan of the Mayfield Fund. For added information, amuse appointment www.socialmedian.com.
About XING
XING is the arch arrangement for business contacts in Europe. Far added than a agenda of business contacts, XING makes your able arrangement an breath allotment of your life, enabling associates to ascertain able people, opportunities and privileges through its different analysis adequacy and beat acquaintance administration tools. With the acknowledged IPO of XING as the aboriginal Web 2.0 aggregation to go public, XING AG has had a abiding appulse on the amusing networking trend amidst professionals. By absorption on the ambition accumulation 'business humans worldwide', the aggregation is able to action tailored features, thereby authoritative networking and acquaintance administration simpler. Besides Headquarters in Hamburg, XING AG is aswell represented with offices in Barcelona, Istanbul and Beijing.
XING. Powering Relationships.
Thorsten Vespermann
Director Corporate Communications
XING AG
Gaensemarkt 43
20354 Hamburg
Germany
+49 40-419131-763
presse@xing.com
www.xing.com/profile/Thorsten_Vespermann/
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