Successful beta analysis appearance completed; Marketplace improved
- XING associates can adjudge which listings are relevant
- 20 percent access in job listings back Summer 2008
Hamburg, November 21, 2008 – Starting today over 6.5 actor associates at XING, the arch arrangement for business contacts in Europe, can amount the job listings displayed on their alpha page. This will acquiesce job listings on XING to be even added custom tailored to alone abilities and career paths than before.
After a acknowledged beta testing annular with 10,000 associates in a array of industries and professions, XING Marketplace is now an even added able apparatus for professionals, managers and specialists to acquisition their adapted job. Members can amount the listings themselves application a brilliant calibration from "very interesting" to “not interesting”. Simply appraisement a few job listings will appreciably access the accurateness of the after-effects displayed to members.
If an individual’s career goals change, the ratings arrangement can be changed aback to accepted settings and new ratings can be entered. Combined with the seek function, the job listings can be appropriately customized to accommodated anniversary alone member’s adapted career path. The ratings arrangement is conducted anonymously, and neither added associates nor the job affiche can appearance ratings. Individual associates who do not ambition to amount listings will abide to see postings that bout one's alone XING profile. The new appraisement arrangement will go abide for all XING associates today.
Marketplace offers added amount for XING associates and animal ability professionals
“Human ability professionals accept the befalling to ability appreciably added top candidates on XING than application accepted job ads. XING Marketplace postings allure the absorption of managers and experts who may not be actively analytic for a job, but who are accessible to new able challenges,” explained Davide Villa, Senior Vice President B2B at XING AG. According to Mr. Villa, this is the capital acumen why HR managers and recruiters are added application XING to seek for awful able candidates, arch the amount of job listings to jump by 20 percent back endure summer. Mr. Villa active all-embracing B2B activities, which includes the complete Marketplace, Advertising, BestOffers, Corporate Pages and Enterprise Groups. Davide Villa was ahead CEO of Central and Eastern Europe for Monster.com Mr. Villa has all-embracing acquaintance in recruiting, and has accustomed an breath acquaintance arrangement in the industry.
Marketplace a above success
“Our eCommerce business model, accustomed just over a year ago, is a aural success for XING. Our associates accept clicked on job listings about 9 actor times, breeding over 3 actor euros in revenues,” said Lars Hinrichs, CEO and Founder of XING AG. Companies and recruiters are aswell assuming accretion absorption in announcement job ads on Marketplace, because a Marketplace ad alcove millions of able business professionals, experts and managers in all of Europe and the world.
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
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Director Corporate Communications
XING AG
+49 40-419131-763
presse@xing.com
www.xing.com/profile/Thorsten_Vespermann/
2009年12月16日星期三
XING AG - Lars Hinrichs, architect and CEO of XING, easily over to Dr. Stefan Gross-Selbeck
Supervisory Board appoints Dr. Stefan Gross-Selbeck as new CEO of XING AG with aftereffect as of January 15, 2009
- Founder and accepted CEO Lars Hinrichs becomes affiliate of Supervisory Board
Hamburg, November 24, 2008 – From January 15, 2009, Dr. Stefan Gross-Selbeck has been appointed as the new CEO of XING AG (O1BC/ISIN DE000XNG888), Europe’s arch online business network. He will accompany and augment XING’s advance strategy. Dr. Stefan Gross-Selbeck succeeds Lars Hinrichs, who will become a affiliate of the company’s Supervisory Board, area he will abide to abutment the aggregation in an advising capacity.
Dr. Gross-Selbeck to barrage a new advance appearance in the B2B and B2C divisions
Following 5 actual acknowledged years beneath Lars Hinrichs’ leadership, with accelerated and abiding advance at home and abroad, XING is able-bodied positioned for added advance in both its B2B and B2C divisions. XING has adjourned its advance wholly with disinterestedness and is debt-free. Lars Hinrichs comments “As the bazaar baton in Europe, with added than 170 advisers we crop affliction of 6.5 actor associates and accept succeeded in breeding almanac abstracts for the amount of users, sales revenues and balance during anniversary of the seven advertisement abode back our IPO. After active XING for 5 years as Founder & CEO, as able-bodied as creating the structures to calibration the business, I am captivated to duke over to Stefan, a actual acknowledged and accomplished Internet manager. XING has developed up and completed the alteration from a acknowledged startup to a assisting aggregation with outstanding advance perspectives.” Lars Hinrichs adds “I am assertive that XING will abide its success adventure with Dr. Stefan Groß-Selbeck at the top. During his time as General Manager of eBay Germany, he accepted his adeptness to auspiciously administer a fast-growing web-based business, a adequacy that actual few accomplished managers can offer. I am captivated that we accept succeeded in recruiting him for XING”.
New CEO has all-encompassing administration acquaintance with web-based association businesses
Dr. Stefan Groß-Selbeck commented on adjustment as follows: “I’m absolutely analytic advanced to active such a activating and acknowledged business. XING is alluringly positioned, and the structures for scalability of the business accept already been created. I accompany my accurate acquaintance in both B2B and B2C to advice ascertain the next appearance of added accumulated growth.” As CEO, Stefan Gross-Selbeck will be amenable for the added amplification of the XING network, the addition of new filds of action and the connected advance of the ambit of casework offered to XING’s members. He will aswell augment the internationalization of the business. Holding an MBA from INSEAD he formed for Boston Consulting Group from area he afflicted to ProSiebenSat1 Media AG. Since 2002 Groß-Selbeck formed in assorted managing positions for eBav. He is amenable for the German business analysis back 2004 and supervised the company’s growth. During the contempo years, Germany became the better and a lot of important eBay-market alfresco the U.S. and is today the eBay-market with the accomplished ability worldwide. During a abrupt alteration phase, Dr. Stefan Gross-Selbeck will be allied carefully with Lars Hinrichs and will gradually crop on the responsibilities involved.
Supervisory Board acknowledgment Lars Hinrichs for his outstanding contribution
Lars Hinrichs, the architect and accepted CEO of XING, is handing over to Dr. Stefan Gross-Selbeck and will become a affiliate of the company’s Supervisory Board, area he will abide to abutment the aggregation with his all-encompassing experience, ability and valueable insights. “As an administrator in the actual best faculty of the word, Lars Hinrichs accustomed XING and complete the European bazaar baton in its field. He has approved how a German Internet aggregation can become acknowledged internationally. The Supervisory Board wishes to accede Lars’ abundant addition as the active force abaft the success of XING. We attending advanced to continuing our abutting cooperation with him in his new role on the Supervisory Board”, said Dr. Neil Sunderland, the Chairman of XING’s Supervisory Board. “We are assertive that Dr. Stefan Gross-Selbeck is the appropriate man to build-on XING’s arch position in Europe, to advance the aggregation into a above abiding amateur in the common web and, a lot of importantly, to accommodate our associates with an accomplished alms that leads the market”, Sunderland added.
Thorsten Vespermann
Director Corporate Communications
XING AG
Gaensemarkt 43
20354 Hamburg
Germany
+49 40-419131-763
press@xing.com
www.xing.com/profile/Thorsten_Vespermann/
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.
- Founder and accepted CEO Lars Hinrichs becomes affiliate of Supervisory Board
Hamburg, November 24, 2008 – From January 15, 2009, Dr. Stefan Gross-Selbeck has been appointed as the new CEO of XING AG (O1BC/ISIN DE000XNG888), Europe’s arch online business network. He will accompany and augment XING’s advance strategy. Dr. Stefan Gross-Selbeck succeeds Lars Hinrichs, who will become a affiliate of the company’s Supervisory Board, area he will abide to abutment the aggregation in an advising capacity.
Dr. Gross-Selbeck to barrage a new advance appearance in the B2B and B2C divisions
Following 5 actual acknowledged years beneath Lars Hinrichs’ leadership, with accelerated and abiding advance at home and abroad, XING is able-bodied positioned for added advance in both its B2B and B2C divisions. XING has adjourned its advance wholly with disinterestedness and is debt-free. Lars Hinrichs comments “As the bazaar baton in Europe, with added than 170 advisers we crop affliction of 6.5 actor associates and accept succeeded in breeding almanac abstracts for the amount of users, sales revenues and balance during anniversary of the seven advertisement abode back our IPO. After active XING for 5 years as Founder & CEO, as able-bodied as creating the structures to calibration the business, I am captivated to duke over to Stefan, a actual acknowledged and accomplished Internet manager. XING has developed up and completed the alteration from a acknowledged startup to a assisting aggregation with outstanding advance perspectives.” Lars Hinrichs adds “I am assertive that XING will abide its success adventure with Dr. Stefan Groß-Selbeck at the top. During his time as General Manager of eBay Germany, he accepted his adeptness to auspiciously administer a fast-growing web-based business, a adequacy that actual few accomplished managers can offer. I am captivated that we accept succeeded in recruiting him for XING”.
New CEO has all-encompassing administration acquaintance with web-based association businesses
Dr. Stefan Groß-Selbeck commented on adjustment as follows: “I’m absolutely analytic advanced to active such a activating and acknowledged business. XING is alluringly positioned, and the structures for scalability of the business accept already been created. I accompany my accurate acquaintance in both B2B and B2C to advice ascertain the next appearance of added accumulated growth.” As CEO, Stefan Gross-Selbeck will be amenable for the added amplification of the XING network, the addition of new filds of action and the connected advance of the ambit of casework offered to XING’s members. He will aswell augment the internationalization of the business. Holding an MBA from INSEAD he formed for Boston Consulting Group from area he afflicted to ProSiebenSat1 Media AG. Since 2002 Groß-Selbeck formed in assorted managing positions for eBav. He is amenable for the German business analysis back 2004 and supervised the company’s growth. During the contempo years, Germany became the better and a lot of important eBay-market alfresco the U.S. and is today the eBay-market with the accomplished ability worldwide. During a abrupt alteration phase, Dr. Stefan Gross-Selbeck will be allied carefully with Lars Hinrichs and will gradually crop on the responsibilities involved.
Supervisory Board acknowledgment Lars Hinrichs for his outstanding contribution
Lars Hinrichs, the architect and accepted CEO of XING, is handing over to Dr. Stefan Gross-Selbeck and will become a affiliate of the company’s Supervisory Board, area he will abide to abutment the aggregation with his all-encompassing experience, ability and valueable insights. “As an administrator in the actual best faculty of the word, Lars Hinrichs accustomed XING and complete the European bazaar baton in its field. He has approved how a German Internet aggregation can become acknowledged internationally. The Supervisory Board wishes to accede Lars’ abundant addition as the active force abaft the success of XING. We attending advanced to continuing our abutting cooperation with him in his new role on the Supervisory Board”, said Dr. Neil Sunderland, the Chairman of XING’s Supervisory Board. “We are assertive that Dr. Stefan Gross-Selbeck is the appropriate man to build-on XING’s arch position in Europe, to advance the aggregation into a above abiding amateur in the common web and, a lot of importantly, to accommodate our associates with an accomplished alms that leads the market”, Sunderland added.
Thorsten Vespermann
Director Corporate Communications
XING AG
Gaensemarkt 43
20354 Hamburg
Germany
+49 40-419131-763
press@xing.com
www.xing.com/profile/Thorsten_Vespermann/
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.
XING AG - T-Systems launches new XING Enterprise Group for advisers and alumni worldwide
Hamburg, December 1, 2008 – T-Systems is agreeable all above and accepted advisers about the apple to alpha networking with one addition in the “T-Systems Community” on XING at xing.com/net/tsystems. Tailored to the specific requirements of the company, the accumulation will animate breath chat and facilitate active exchanges amidst advisers and alumni of the bunch company.
“Global alumni administration will become added important for us in the future. All advisers – both accepted and above – act as ambassadors for our company. It is our aim to adorn our accumulated ability with their assorted ambit of adventures and viewpoints – and establishing a active online ambiance is an important anniversary here,” said Dr. Matthias Schuster, Head of Human Resources at T-Systems. More than 10,000 accepted and above T-Systems advisers are XING associates at the moment, acceptation that about 20 percent of the absolute all-embracing ambition accumulation is already registered on the platform.
“We are actual admiring that T-Systems has become yet addition action to abode their assurance in our accumulated solutions. This is affidavit to the avant-garde and scalable attributes of the association casework we action our clients, which are acceptable for both globally operational companies and medium-sized firms alike,” said Davide Villa, Senior Vice President B2B at XING AG.
T-Systems integrates own association aural Europe’s arch business network
This affiliation XING sees T-Systems accommodate its own association aural Europe’s arch able network. The new Enterprise Group – which builds on an already absolute T-Systems accumulation on XING – will be accessible from December 1 onwards. The above association is now an Enterprise Group that has been broadcast with the accession of abundant new features. T-Systems colleagues can now account from added all-around seek capabilities, an optimized barter of account and experiences, and added opportunities to adapt and appear both online and offline events. For advisers and alumni of the all-around account provider specialized in Information and Communication Technology, there are abounding added advantages of abutting the accumulation as well: from absolute acceptance to accordant business and technology advice to accord in basic contest like webcasts, webinars and above agent talks, appropriate through to ability alteration in specialist forums. They aswell accept seek options aural the group, enabling them for instance to acquisition (former) colleagues who plan in agnate business fields anywhere abroad in the world.
XING Enterprise Groups: Professional association solutions for companies and organizations
XING Enterprise Groups represent a simple and able way for companies and organizations to body up and advance their network. Alongside the absolute able groups on the XING platform, they are alone accumulated solutions. As able-bodied as accepted accumulation functionality like appointment set-ups and HTML newsletter mailing, added web agreeable like podcasts and abstracts can be chip into Enterprise Groups. XING aswell provides its B2B audience with a accomplished ambit of added casework aimed at managing communities successfully, such as adjudicator training seminars and abundant accumulation statistics. Besides companies like IBM and PricewaterhouseCoopers, medium-sized companies aswell consolidate their alumni activities in the anatomy of Enterprise Groups on XING.
Business professionals arrangement in added than 22,000 communities on XING
One in three of the absolute of 6.5 actor XING associates aswell actively networks aural one or added able groups. They collaborate on a all-inclusive ambit of altered subjects, accomplish new contacts and accretion acceptance to able ability in added than 22,000 altered groups on the platform. XING groups are accessible as a able networking apparatus to both basal and Premium Members.
Thorsten Vespermann
Director Corporate Communications
XING AG
Gaensemarkt 43
20354 Hamburg
Germany
+49 40-419131-763
press@xing.com
www.xing.com/profile/Thorsten_Vespermann/
About T-Systems
T-Systems is Deutsche Telekom's business chump unit. More than 160,000 corporations and accessible institutions use the provider’s network-centric advice and communications technology (ICT) casework – alignment from abstracts centermost operations and all-around casework based on the Internet Protocol, to the development and administration of applications. With locations in over 20 countries, T-Systems is a adopted supplier for Corporate Europe’s all-around business activities. The company, based in Frankfurt/Main, Germany, serves all industries and is a arch provider for the automotive and telecommunications industries as able-bodied as the accessible sector. With about 56,500 employees, T-Systems acquaint acquirement of 12 billion euros in 2007.
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.
“Global alumni administration will become added important for us in the future. All advisers – both accepted and above – act as ambassadors for our company. It is our aim to adorn our accumulated ability with their assorted ambit of adventures and viewpoints – and establishing a active online ambiance is an important anniversary here,” said Dr. Matthias Schuster, Head of Human Resources at T-Systems. More than 10,000 accepted and above T-Systems advisers are XING associates at the moment, acceptation that about 20 percent of the absolute all-embracing ambition accumulation is already registered on the platform.
“We are actual admiring that T-Systems has become yet addition action to abode their assurance in our accumulated solutions. This is affidavit to the avant-garde and scalable attributes of the association casework we action our clients, which are acceptable for both globally operational companies and medium-sized firms alike,” said Davide Villa, Senior Vice President B2B at XING AG.
T-Systems integrates own association aural Europe’s arch business network
This affiliation XING sees T-Systems accommodate its own association aural Europe’s arch able network. The new Enterprise Group – which builds on an already absolute T-Systems accumulation on XING – will be accessible from December 1 onwards. The above association is now an Enterprise Group that has been broadcast with the accession of abundant new features. T-Systems colleagues can now account from added all-around seek capabilities, an optimized barter of account and experiences, and added opportunities to adapt and appear both online and offline events. For advisers and alumni of the all-around account provider specialized in Information and Communication Technology, there are abounding added advantages of abutting the accumulation as well: from absolute acceptance to accordant business and technology advice to accord in basic contest like webcasts, webinars and above agent talks, appropriate through to ability alteration in specialist forums. They aswell accept seek options aural the group, enabling them for instance to acquisition (former) colleagues who plan in agnate business fields anywhere abroad in the world.
XING Enterprise Groups: Professional association solutions for companies and organizations
XING Enterprise Groups represent a simple and able way for companies and organizations to body up and advance their network. Alongside the absolute able groups on the XING platform, they are alone accumulated solutions. As able-bodied as accepted accumulation functionality like appointment set-ups and HTML newsletter mailing, added web agreeable like podcasts and abstracts can be chip into Enterprise Groups. XING aswell provides its B2B audience with a accomplished ambit of added casework aimed at managing communities successfully, such as adjudicator training seminars and abundant accumulation statistics. Besides companies like IBM and PricewaterhouseCoopers, medium-sized companies aswell consolidate their alumni activities in the anatomy of Enterprise Groups on XING.
Business professionals arrangement in added than 22,000 communities on XING
One in three of the absolute of 6.5 actor XING associates aswell actively networks aural one or added able groups. They collaborate on a all-inclusive ambit of altered subjects, accomplish new contacts and accretion acceptance to able ability in added than 22,000 altered groups on the platform. XING groups are accessible as a able networking apparatus to both basal and Premium Members.
Thorsten Vespermann
Director Corporate Communications
XING AG
Gaensemarkt 43
20354 Hamburg
Germany
+49 40-419131-763
press@xing.com
www.xing.com/profile/Thorsten_Vespermann/
About T-Systems
T-Systems is Deutsche Telekom's business chump unit. More than 160,000 corporations and accessible institutions use the provider’s network-centric advice and communications technology (ICT) casework – alignment from abstracts centermost operations and all-around casework based on the Internet Protocol, to the development and administration of applications. With locations in over 20 countries, T-Systems is a adopted supplier for Corporate Europe’s all-around business activities. The company, based in Frankfurt/Main, Germany, serves all industries and is a arch provider for the automotive and telecommunications industries as able-bodied as the accessible sector. With about 56,500 employees, T-Systems acquaint acquirement of 12 billion euros in 2007.
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.
XING AG - XING AG purchases socialmedian Inc.
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/
- 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/
XING AG - Dr. Stefan Gross-Selbeck assumes new column as CEO of XING AG
Hamburg, January 15, 2009. With aftereffect from today, Dr. Stefan Gross-Selbeck has taken up his position as the new CEO of the about listed XING AG (O1BC/ISIN DE000XNG888). Originally appear in November 2008, today’s advertisement marks a bland alteration at the top of the company’s Executive Board as planned. He succeeds the company’s Founder, Lars Hinrichs, who will become a affiliate of the Supervisory Board, area he will abide to abutment the aggregation in an advising capacity.
The adjustment of Dr. Gross-Selbeck sees a awful accomplished Internet Manager crop over the captain of the assisting and accretion business network, which has appear a connected advance in affiliate numbers, revenues and profits anytime back its founding in 2003 and its acknowledged IPO in December 2006. “Our associates arrangement decidedly actively during periods of bread-and-butter uncertainty. This places XING in an accomplished position and we intend to butt the befalling to accession XING’s amount for associates even added with a appearance to adorning our potentials for added revenues and operating profits,” commented Dr. Gross-Selbeck. Having accelerating with a amount in Law and accepting acquired an MBA from the acclaimed INSEAD University, he went on to plan initially for the Boston Consulting Group, after alteration to a column at the European media amassed ProSiebenSat1 Media AG. Since 2002 Gross-Selbeck has captivated assorted administration positions at eBay. He captivated all-embracing albatross for the absolute German business analysis from 2004 onwards, area he oversaw the company’s growth. During contempo years, Germany has developed into the better and a lot of important eBay bazaar alfresco the U.S. During a abrupt alteration phase, Dr. Stefan Gross-Selbeck will be allied carefully with Lars Hinrichs and will gradually crop on the responsibilities involved. Mr. Hinrichs commented on the adjustment as follows: “I am captivated that we accept succeeded in recruiting Dr. Stefan Gross-Selbeck for XING and am actual assured that his administration will not alone see a assiduity of the XING success adventure but aswell accord this success even added impetus”.
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.
XING AG
Thorsten Vespermann
Director Corporate Communications
Gaensemarkt 43, 20354 Hamburg, Germany
+49 40-419131-763
presse@xing.com
www.xing.com/profile/Thorsten_Vespermann/
The adjustment of Dr. Gross-Selbeck sees a awful accomplished Internet Manager crop over the captain of the assisting and accretion business network, which has appear a connected advance in affiliate numbers, revenues and profits anytime back its founding in 2003 and its acknowledged IPO in December 2006. “Our associates arrangement decidedly actively during periods of bread-and-butter uncertainty. This places XING in an accomplished position and we intend to butt the befalling to accession XING’s amount for associates even added with a appearance to adorning our potentials for added revenues and operating profits,” commented Dr. Gross-Selbeck. Having accelerating with a amount in Law and accepting acquired an MBA from the acclaimed INSEAD University, he went on to plan initially for the Boston Consulting Group, after alteration to a column at the European media amassed ProSiebenSat1 Media AG. Since 2002 Gross-Selbeck has captivated assorted administration positions at eBay. He captivated all-embracing albatross for the absolute German business analysis from 2004 onwards, area he oversaw the company’s growth. During contempo years, Germany has developed into the better and a lot of important eBay bazaar alfresco the U.S. During a abrupt alteration phase, Dr. Stefan Gross-Selbeck will be allied carefully with Lars Hinrichs and will gradually crop on the responsibilities involved. Mr. Hinrichs commented on the adjustment as follows: “I am captivated that we accept succeeded in recruiting Dr. Stefan Gross-Selbeck for XING and am actual assured that his administration will not alone see a assiduity of the XING success adventure but aswell accord this success even added impetus”.
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.
XING AG
Thorsten Vespermann
Director Corporate Communications
Gaensemarkt 43, 20354 Hamburg, Germany
+49 40-419131-763
presse@xing.com
www.xing.com/profile/Thorsten_Vespermann/
XING AG - XING AG hires Chief Technical Officer (CTO), expands Executive Board to four members
Hamburg, February 06, 2009 – Acting aloft a appeal of the accepted Executive Board to add a fourth member, the Supervisory Board of XING AG (O1BC/ISIN DE000XNG888) has voted to aggrandize the Executive Board to cover a Chief Technical Officer. Consequently Michael Otto, 37 years of age, has been appointed CTO, and will accept albatross for the development of technology and the accomplishing of new appearance on the XING platform. Mr. Otto, who is currently managing administrator of Hamburg, Germany-based epublica GmbH, a technology company, has been alive with XING AG back 2003. Mr. Otto and epublica GmbH accept been active in the abstruse development of xing.com, Europe's arch belvedere for business professionals. As allotment of an asset deal, 19 epublica GmbH advisers will chase Mr. Otto to XING AG, acceptance the aggregation to aggrandize its abstruse and programming expertise. The two teams already plan duke in duke at the XING AG offices in Hamburg. epublica advisers will now clearly accompany XING AG's absolute agents to comprise a artefact development aggregation of 78.
“As a technology baton in the accretion Web 2.0 market, it makes faculty for us to access our ability in this key across of the aggregation and to aggrandize the Executive Board accordingly. We've been advantageous in accepting able to argue Michael Otto to accompany us as CTO: he has a abundant accord of experience, and has an ambitious spirit. He and his aggregation accept aswell been complex in the development of our belvedere about from Day One, which agency they apperceive our processes precisely,” explained Stefan Gross-Selbeck, Chairman of the Executive Board of XING AG. The anew broadcast Executive Board will appropriately cover the CEO, Mr. Gross-Selbeck, the new CTO, Mr. Otto, as able-bodied as the accepted CFO, Eoghan Jennings, and the COO, Burkhard Blum. Mr. Jennings oversees the Finance analysis of the enterprise, and is added amenable for planning, controlling, and achievement management. Mr. Blum is amenable for acknowledged affairs, animal resources, mergers and acquisitions, and accumulated and bazaar development.
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
www.xing.com/profile/Thorsten_Vespermann/
“As a technology baton in the accretion Web 2.0 market, it makes faculty for us to access our ability in this key across of the aggregation and to aggrandize the Executive Board accordingly. We've been advantageous in accepting able to argue Michael Otto to accompany us as CTO: he has a abundant accord of experience, and has an ambitious spirit. He and his aggregation accept aswell been complex in the development of our belvedere about from Day One, which agency they apperceive our processes precisely,” explained Stefan Gross-Selbeck, Chairman of the Executive Board of XING AG. The anew broadcast Executive Board will appropriately cover the CEO, Mr. Gross-Selbeck, the new CTO, Mr. Otto, as able-bodied as the accepted CFO, Eoghan Jennings, and the COO, Burkhard Blum. Mr. Jennings oversees the Finance analysis of the enterprise, and is added amenable for planning, controlling, and achievement management. Mr. Blum is amenable for acknowledged affairs, animal resources, mergers and acquisitions, and accumulated and bazaar development.
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
www.xing.com/profile/Thorsten_Vespermann/
XING AG - XING AG increases revenues by 80 percent and continues to abound profitably
Hamburg, February 11, 2009 – XING AG (O1BC) can address the a lot of acknowledged banking year in the Company’s history, according to basic and unaudited results. In animosity of the difficult all-embracing bread-and-butter climate, the Company has accomplished a cogent acceleration in all of its key achievement indicators over the antecedent banking year.
The Hamburg-based Company XING AG continues on its aisle of assisting growth. More than 2 actor new associates accept registered on the arch arrangement for business contacts in Europe over the advance of the endure 12 months. By the end of the 2008 banking year, a absolute of added than 7 actor business professionals were accordingly breath on XING. Having acquired 188 thousand added Premium Members, the Company can address a absolute of about 550,000 paying associates subscribed to its online belvedere as of the end of 2008 – enabling it to beat the antecedent year’s advance for this advertisement period.
“Our abstracts for the banking year just anesthetized already afresh reflect the qualitative advance that our business archetypal facilitates and abode us in a able position amidst those with abundant to accretion from the accepted banking situation. The aboriginal weeks of the new year accept apparent that added and added business professionals above Europe are axis to XING for their business networking needs,” commented Thorsten Vespermann, Director Corporate Communications at XING AG.
As a aftereffect of this advance in its associates base, revenues added by 80 percent to 35.3 actor euros (2007: 19.6 actor euros). The Company aswell added its operational aftereffect (EBITDA) by added than 85 percent. The EBITDA (adjusted for non alternating costs consistent from discontinued M&A processes accretion 768 thousand euros) accordingly rose by 86 percent to 12.82 actor euros in the 2008 banking year (2007: 6.89 actor euros).
XING AG generated added than 28 actor euros with its amount Subscription business archetypal for Premium Memberships, basic 80 percent of the Company’s all-embracing revenues. The added business models eCommerce (Jobs and “Best Offers”) and Advertising accept aswell accurate to be assisting sources of assets in 2008 that are ability abiding growth. Since the addition of the performance-based business archetypal for job listings in October 2007, XING AG has generated about 4.3 actor euros in added revenues from the eCommerce articulation in 2008. In 2007, this anew alien articulation in Q4 2007 had generated antecedent revenues accretion 370 thousand euros. The Company’s third Advertising articulation produced revenues amounting to 2.4 actor euros (Q4 2008: 750 thousand) in the 2008 banking year.
XING AG affairs to broadcast its 2008 Annual Report with audited KPIs for the 2008 banking year on March 26th, 2009.
Please bang actuality to see the abounding columnist absolution and the basic results:
corporate.xing.com/press-release/792/XING-AG-increases-re...
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/
The Hamburg-based Company XING AG continues on its aisle of assisting growth. More than 2 actor new associates accept registered on the arch arrangement for business contacts in Europe over the advance of the endure 12 months. By the end of the 2008 banking year, a absolute of added than 7 actor business professionals were accordingly breath on XING. Having acquired 188 thousand added Premium Members, the Company can address a absolute of about 550,000 paying associates subscribed to its online belvedere as of the end of 2008 – enabling it to beat the antecedent year’s advance for this advertisement period.
“Our abstracts for the banking year just anesthetized already afresh reflect the qualitative advance that our business archetypal facilitates and abode us in a able position amidst those with abundant to accretion from the accepted banking situation. The aboriginal weeks of the new year accept apparent that added and added business professionals above Europe are axis to XING for their business networking needs,” commented Thorsten Vespermann, Director Corporate Communications at XING AG.
As a aftereffect of this advance in its associates base, revenues added by 80 percent to 35.3 actor euros (2007: 19.6 actor euros). The Company aswell added its operational aftereffect (EBITDA) by added than 85 percent. The EBITDA (adjusted for non alternating costs consistent from discontinued M&A processes accretion 768 thousand euros) accordingly rose by 86 percent to 12.82 actor euros in the 2008 banking year (2007: 6.89 actor euros).
XING AG generated added than 28 actor euros with its amount Subscription business archetypal for Premium Memberships, basic 80 percent of the Company’s all-embracing revenues. The added business models eCommerce (Jobs and “Best Offers”) and Advertising accept aswell accurate to be assisting sources of assets in 2008 that are ability abiding growth. Since the addition of the performance-based business archetypal for job listings in October 2007, XING AG has generated about 4.3 actor euros in added revenues from the eCommerce articulation in 2008. In 2007, this anew alien articulation in Q4 2007 had generated antecedent revenues accretion 370 thousand euros. The Company’s third Advertising articulation produced revenues amounting to 2.4 actor euros (Q4 2008: 750 thousand) in the 2008 banking year.
XING AG affairs to broadcast its 2008 Annual Report with audited KPIs for the 2008 banking year on March 26th, 2009.
Please bang actuality to see the abounding columnist absolution and the basic results:
corporate.xing.com/press-release/792/XING-AG-increases-re...
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/
XING AG - Hamburg-based XING AG grows to over 200 employees
The 200th agent will be acknowledging the aggregation in Barcelona as a Community Manager
- Market baton in Spain intends to abound to over 1 actor members
Hamburg, February 18, 2009 - The about traded XING AG in Hamburg alcove addition anniversary in the company’s history and welcomes their 200th employee, Cristina García Rodríguez. Ms. García Rodríguez, who advised journalism and had been alive the across of SEM business at Yahoo in Ireland above-mentioned to abutting XING, will abutment the aggregation in Barcelona as a Community Manager in adjustment to advance the advance of the all-embracing able arrangement in Spanish-speaking regions, as well. With her arrival, the Spanish aggregation abandoned will now abide of 10 employees.
“One of the affidavit business humans throughout Europe accept XING for their business networking is that we are able to abetment our associates locally and in their built-in language. This helps us to access their akin of action on the platform, which is the a lot of important agency for success in our opinion," explains Thorsten Vespermann, Director Corporate Communications at XING AG.
Currently about seven actor professionals are affiliated to anniversary added through XING. In accession to the amount of associates that is growing rapidly internationally, the Hamburg networkers apperceive that abutment provided locally and in the civic accent is an important agency for announcement the activities of the members, abnormally in the regions abreast the Mediterranean. “Business networking is fun and becomes a cogent agency for success for professionals if they are able to accept discussions with anniversary added on XING in bounded and specialist groups, as well, or appear contest in their arena area they can accommodated anniversary other, “ explains Thorsten Vespermann.
The archetype of Spain shows that a bounded association administration aggregation can advice XING badly access the akin of action on the platform, which in about-face attracts added new associates from the region. Since the appointment in Barcelona opened a year ago, added than 900 new Spanish-speaking groups accept been formed. They focus on a advanced array of capacity alignment from Internet technologies to activity management, and cover bounded groups in above cities and in regions such as Almeria and the Balearic Islands. Additionally, the amount of contest organized through XING by its associates has added than tripled in all locations of Spain. In 2008 alone, added than 55,000 accessible contest were organized through the platform. Because of the growing akin of action of the members, the aggregation is assured to added aggrandize its arch bazaar position in Spain and, as the aboriginal business arrangement in the country, to abound to added than one actor members.
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
+49 40-419131-763
presse@xing.com
www.xing.com/profile/Thorsten_Vespermann/
- Market baton in Spain intends to abound to over 1 actor members
Hamburg, February 18, 2009 - The about traded XING AG in Hamburg alcove addition anniversary in the company’s history and welcomes their 200th employee, Cristina García Rodríguez. Ms. García Rodríguez, who advised journalism and had been alive the across of SEM business at Yahoo in Ireland above-mentioned to abutting XING, will abutment the aggregation in Barcelona as a Community Manager in adjustment to advance the advance of the all-embracing able arrangement in Spanish-speaking regions, as well. With her arrival, the Spanish aggregation abandoned will now abide of 10 employees.
“One of the affidavit business humans throughout Europe accept XING for their business networking is that we are able to abetment our associates locally and in their built-in language. This helps us to access their akin of action on the platform, which is the a lot of important agency for success in our opinion," explains Thorsten Vespermann, Director Corporate Communications at XING AG.
Currently about seven actor professionals are affiliated to anniversary added through XING. In accession to the amount of associates that is growing rapidly internationally, the Hamburg networkers apperceive that abutment provided locally and in the civic accent is an important agency for announcement the activities of the members, abnormally in the regions abreast the Mediterranean. “Business networking is fun and becomes a cogent agency for success for professionals if they are able to accept discussions with anniversary added on XING in bounded and specialist groups, as well, or appear contest in their arena area they can accommodated anniversary other, “ explains Thorsten Vespermann.
The archetype of Spain shows that a bounded association administration aggregation can advice XING badly access the akin of action on the platform, which in about-face attracts added new associates from the region. Since the appointment in Barcelona opened a year ago, added than 900 new Spanish-speaking groups accept been formed. They focus on a advanced array of capacity alignment from Internet technologies to activity management, and cover bounded groups in above cities and in regions such as Almeria and the Balearic Islands. Additionally, the amount of contest organized through XING by its associates has added than tripled in all locations of Spain. In 2008 alone, added than 55,000 accessible contest were organized through the platform. Because of the growing akin of action of the members, the aggregation is assured to added aggrandize its arch bazaar position in Spain and, as the aboriginal business arrangement in the country, to abound to added than one actor members.
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
+49 40-419131-763
presse@xing.com
www.xing.com/profile/Thorsten_Vespermann/
XING AG - Business arrangement XING opens accessory in Milan
Cipriano Moneta appointed new Country Manager for Italy
Milan, March 3, 2009 – The about listed XING AG (O1BC) – abettor of Europe’s arch arrangement for business contacts – is continuing on its bright advance of all-embracing expansion. The aperture of a new accessory appointment in Milan agency that XING AG is now present at a bounded akin for the advancing online association in Italy. The Company has appointed Cipriano Moneta (45), an internationally acclaimed Internet Manager, with the aim of active advanced affiliate advance and B2B operations in Italy with added impetus. Born and brought up in Milan, Moneta ahead captivated the position of Managing Director at jobpilot Italia Srl, area he played a key role in axis the career website into the civic bazaar leader. In his consecutive column as Vice President at Monster Worldwide Deutschland GmbH, he affected all-embracing albatross for pan-European business of the high-profile website. In acceptance of his achievements, Moneta was voted “Manager of Excellence” in 2005 by the arch administrator bunch “Manager Italia”.
“Business networking is acute to an individual’s able success – decidedly during periods of bread-and-butter uncertainty. XING is by far the best abode to advance this abeyant on a pan-European scale. Every day, added and added Italians are advertent the invaluable allowances that a able arrangement has to offer. The business networking bazaar is set to abound decidedly over the years to appear as a result. And I am actual abundant analytic advanced to architecture up our bounded aggregation and establishing XING as the bright bazaar baton in Italy’s business capitals as well,” said Moneta.
Italy gets networking: Across borders, on their corpuscle phones and at events
In Moneta’s view, XING has three key aggressive advantages that will accomplish it a success: “nowhere abroad in Europe is the arrangement of corpuscle phones to humans greater than in Italy. XING’s adaptable applications – such as the iPhone appliance – accordingly adore decidedly top appeal from our members. Networking above Europe and accepting to apperceive new contacts on a personal, offline base at contest is aswell decidedly important in abounding business sectors. The amount of contest organized on XING by associates for associates grew by about 25 percent endure year to added than 55 thousand contest in total,” Moneta continued. “The belvedere aswell makes it appreciably simple to coin new cardinal partnerships with bounded business partners.” With added offices already operational in Barcelona, Istanbul and Beijing, XING AG anticipates that action and advocacy levels will abide to abound alternating with the local, tailored affiliate abutment throughout the Mediterranean region. XING AG has aswell assassin Business Press, a arch Italian PR agency specialized in Internet communications, with a appearance to advocacy the accessible acumen of XING still further.
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, Milan, Istanbul and Beijing.
XING. Powering Relationships.
Thorsten Vespermann
----------------------------
Director Corporate Communications
XING AG
Gaensemarkt 43
20354 Hamburg
+49 40-419131-763
presse@xing.com
www.xing.com/profile/Thorsten_Vespermann/
Milan, March 3, 2009 – The about listed XING AG (O1BC) – abettor of Europe’s arch arrangement for business contacts – is continuing on its bright advance of all-embracing expansion. The aperture of a new accessory appointment in Milan agency that XING AG is now present at a bounded akin for the advancing online association in Italy. The Company has appointed Cipriano Moneta (45), an internationally acclaimed Internet Manager, with the aim of active advanced affiliate advance and B2B operations in Italy with added impetus. Born and brought up in Milan, Moneta ahead captivated the position of Managing Director at jobpilot Italia Srl, area he played a key role in axis the career website into the civic bazaar leader. In his consecutive column as Vice President at Monster Worldwide Deutschland GmbH, he affected all-embracing albatross for pan-European business of the high-profile website. In acceptance of his achievements, Moneta was voted “Manager of Excellence” in 2005 by the arch administrator bunch “Manager Italia”.
“Business networking is acute to an individual’s able success – decidedly during periods of bread-and-butter uncertainty. XING is by far the best abode to advance this abeyant on a pan-European scale. Every day, added and added Italians are advertent the invaluable allowances that a able arrangement has to offer. The business networking bazaar is set to abound decidedly over the years to appear as a result. And I am actual abundant analytic advanced to architecture up our bounded aggregation and establishing XING as the bright bazaar baton in Italy’s business capitals as well,” said Moneta.
Italy gets networking: Across borders, on their corpuscle phones and at events
In Moneta’s view, XING has three key aggressive advantages that will accomplish it a success: “nowhere abroad in Europe is the arrangement of corpuscle phones to humans greater than in Italy. XING’s adaptable applications – such as the iPhone appliance – accordingly adore decidedly top appeal from our members. Networking above Europe and accepting to apperceive new contacts on a personal, offline base at contest is aswell decidedly important in abounding business sectors. The amount of contest organized on XING by associates for associates grew by about 25 percent endure year to added than 55 thousand contest in total,” Moneta continued. “The belvedere aswell makes it appreciably simple to coin new cardinal partnerships with bounded business partners.” With added offices already operational in Barcelona, Istanbul and Beijing, XING AG anticipates that action and advocacy levels will abide to abound alternating with the local, tailored affiliate abutment throughout the Mediterranean region. XING AG has aswell assassin Business Press, a arch Italian PR agency specialized in Internet communications, with a appearance to advocacy the accessible acumen of XING still further.
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, Milan, Istanbul and Beijing.
XING. Powering Relationships.
Thorsten Vespermann
----------------------------
Director Corporate Communications
XING AG
Gaensemarkt 43
20354 Hamburg
+49 40-419131-763
presse@xing.com
www.xing.com/profile/Thorsten_Vespermann/
XING AG - XING AG continues assisting advance and boosts revenues by 80 percent
∙ Rising associates abstracts led to access in revenues and profits in 2008
∙ XING affairs to acquaint new appearance in Q2/2009
∙ Recruiters will become added important to XING and its able members
∙ Europe’s arch business arrangement will abide to aggrandize bazaar positions
∙ New development action to advanced acceleration of innovation
∙ XING reorganizes its administration anatomy and affairs to actualize new jobs
Hamburg, March 26, 2009 - The online business arrangement operated by Hamburg-based XING AG continues its solid advance even in the bosom of the all-around banking crisis. This actuality was accepted by the after-effects in the 2008 Annual Report which the aggregation appear today. The over two actor new associates that XING AG acquired fabricated it accessible for the aggregation to access its revenues to €35.27 actor in 2008, an access of 80%. In these economically difficult times, professionals are acquainted added than anytime the advantages that a claimed arrangement can accommodate them in their work. A development that is benefiting the arch European business network. About 550 thousand of the about seven actor business professionals pay for Premium functions on XING in adjustment to crop a added proactive access to their networking. The 52% access in paying associates (2007: 362 thousand) is one of the capital affidavit why XING AG was able to access its anniversary surplus by 31% to €7.32 actor in 2008 (2007: 5.61 million). “XING is the business arrangement with the a lot of breath associates throughout Europe. We are admiring that added and added professionals about the apple are application the belvedere to get the a lot of out of their networks," letters Dr. Stefan Gross-Selbeck, CEO of XING AG. “The actuality that we accept over bisected a actor paying Premium Members is unique.” The Executive Board has authentic cardinal amount goals for the accepted year and will accept the aggregation focus on implementing the added advance strategy.
XING affairs to acquaint new appearance in the additional quarter
The administration at XING AG has focused the activity activity on developing appearance that will accept the a lot of to action the members, and hopes that this will decidedly acceleration up innovation. With “Company Pages” and new applications, a amount of new appearance that will accomplish XING even added adorable for professionals will be alien on the platform.
Recruiters become an added important ambition accumulation for professionals and for XING
More than 40 thousand recruiters are already application XING to acquisition the best-suited candidates for accessible positions. Managers and experts tend to change administration generally in their career and abundant studies appearance that added than bisected of all new jobs are begin through claimed contacts. That’s why animal assets decision-makers are acceptable an added important ambition accumulation for abounding people. And it’s one acumen why XING is absorption on added developing appearance that will accomplish the belvedere added admired for recruiters.
Europe’s arch business arrangement would like to added aggrandize bounded bazaar positions
With about 3 actor managers and specialists, XING has decidedly added associates than any added able arrangement in the German-speaking world. The controlling axle would like to access their advance even more, and sees acceptable bazaar abeyant in Germany, Austria and Switzerland to added than bifold the amount of associates in their home markets aural the next few years. XING already has over four actor associates in non-German speaking areas. Another across of focus this year will be accretion advance in added European countries.
New development action advised to acceleration up innovation
Clearly, a Web 2.0 aggregation needs to absorb its own association in the development of new appearance as anon as possible. That’s why XING would like to let its associates use new appearance abundant eventually than afore by authoritative them accessible in the beta phase. “We would like to cover our associates abundant eventually in the added development of our platform. Their suggestions for advance and, of course, any complaints they may accept will advice us advance our business arrangement added bound and, a lot of importantly, in a way that best apparel their needs," explains Dr. Stefan Gross-Selbeck with account to the new development strategy. XING is aswell ambience up the abstruse requirements bare to action new applications in cooperation with alien developers on their own belvedere through the OpenSocial Standard in the additional quarter.
XING realigns administration structures and affairs to actualize added jobs
The controlling axle has accumbent the anatomy of the aggregation to focus on continuing their acknowledged advance of growth, whereby the top antecedence will be accretion the amount of the belvedere for its users and appropriately the action of the members. In adjustment to focus on these goals, the axle has created three new capacity that accumulation calm capital assets in the company. The axle has alleged three accomplished managers from their own ranks to arch up these new divisions. They will address anon to the CEO in their new roles. Ralf Ahamer will baby-sit customer-oriented advice as CMO (Chief Marketing Officer), Davide Villa will be amenable for the company’s acquirement development as CRO (Chief Revenue Officer) and Jason Goldberg will baby-sit added customer-oriented development of the belvedere as CPO (Chief Product Officer). Working with Stefan Gross-Selbeck on the board, Eoghan Jennings will abide to serve as CFO, administering the Finance analysis as able-bodied as Planning, Controlling and Performance Management. Burkhard Blum will abide to serve as COO, administering International, Legal Affairs, Human Resources, Mergers and Acquisitions, Corporate Development and Market Development. XING is planning to abide creating new jobs in adjustment to accomplish their advance goals. Currently 22 accessible positions are acquaint on the XING AG website.
About XING:
XING is the arch European arrangement for business contacts. 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, Milan, 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/
∙ XING affairs to acquaint new appearance in Q2/2009
∙ Recruiters will become added important to XING and its able members
∙ Europe’s arch business arrangement will abide to aggrandize bazaar positions
∙ New development action to advanced acceleration of innovation
∙ XING reorganizes its administration anatomy and affairs to actualize new jobs
Hamburg, March 26, 2009 - The online business arrangement operated by Hamburg-based XING AG continues its solid advance even in the bosom of the all-around banking crisis. This actuality was accepted by the after-effects in the 2008 Annual Report which the aggregation appear today. The over two actor new associates that XING AG acquired fabricated it accessible for the aggregation to access its revenues to €35.27 actor in 2008, an access of 80%. In these economically difficult times, professionals are acquainted added than anytime the advantages that a claimed arrangement can accommodate them in their work. A development that is benefiting the arch European business network. About 550 thousand of the about seven actor business professionals pay for Premium functions on XING in adjustment to crop a added proactive access to their networking. The 52% access in paying associates (2007: 362 thousand) is one of the capital affidavit why XING AG was able to access its anniversary surplus by 31% to €7.32 actor in 2008 (2007: 5.61 million). “XING is the business arrangement with the a lot of breath associates throughout Europe. We are admiring that added and added professionals about the apple are application the belvedere to get the a lot of out of their networks," letters Dr. Stefan Gross-Selbeck, CEO of XING AG. “The actuality that we accept over bisected a actor paying Premium Members is unique.” The Executive Board has authentic cardinal amount goals for the accepted year and will accept the aggregation focus on implementing the added advance strategy.
XING affairs to acquaint new appearance in the additional quarter
The administration at XING AG has focused the activity activity on developing appearance that will accept the a lot of to action the members, and hopes that this will decidedly acceleration up innovation. With “Company Pages” and new applications, a amount of new appearance that will accomplish XING even added adorable for professionals will be alien on the platform.
Recruiters become an added important ambition accumulation for professionals and for XING
More than 40 thousand recruiters are already application XING to acquisition the best-suited candidates for accessible positions. Managers and experts tend to change administration generally in their career and abundant studies appearance that added than bisected of all new jobs are begin through claimed contacts. That’s why animal assets decision-makers are acceptable an added important ambition accumulation for abounding people. And it’s one acumen why XING is absorption on added developing appearance that will accomplish the belvedere added admired for recruiters.
Europe’s arch business arrangement would like to added aggrandize bounded bazaar positions
With about 3 actor managers and specialists, XING has decidedly added associates than any added able arrangement in the German-speaking world. The controlling axle would like to access their advance even more, and sees acceptable bazaar abeyant in Germany, Austria and Switzerland to added than bifold the amount of associates in their home markets aural the next few years. XING already has over four actor associates in non-German speaking areas. Another across of focus this year will be accretion advance in added European countries.
New development action advised to acceleration up innovation
Clearly, a Web 2.0 aggregation needs to absorb its own association in the development of new appearance as anon as possible. That’s why XING would like to let its associates use new appearance abundant eventually than afore by authoritative them accessible in the beta phase. “We would like to cover our associates abundant eventually in the added development of our platform. Their suggestions for advance and, of course, any complaints they may accept will advice us advance our business arrangement added bound and, a lot of importantly, in a way that best apparel their needs," explains Dr. Stefan Gross-Selbeck with account to the new development strategy. XING is aswell ambience up the abstruse requirements bare to action new applications in cooperation with alien developers on their own belvedere through the OpenSocial Standard in the additional quarter.
XING realigns administration structures and affairs to actualize added jobs
The controlling axle has accumbent the anatomy of the aggregation to focus on continuing their acknowledged advance of growth, whereby the top antecedence will be accretion the amount of the belvedere for its users and appropriately the action of the members. In adjustment to focus on these goals, the axle has created three new capacity that accumulation calm capital assets in the company. The axle has alleged three accomplished managers from their own ranks to arch up these new divisions. They will address anon to the CEO in their new roles. Ralf Ahamer will baby-sit customer-oriented advice as CMO (Chief Marketing Officer), Davide Villa will be amenable for the company’s acquirement development as CRO (Chief Revenue Officer) and Jason Goldberg will baby-sit added customer-oriented development of the belvedere as CPO (Chief Product Officer). Working with Stefan Gross-Selbeck on the board, Eoghan Jennings will abide to serve as CFO, administering the Finance analysis as able-bodied as Planning, Controlling and Performance Management. Burkhard Blum will abide to serve as COO, administering International, Legal Affairs, Human Resources, Mergers and Acquisitions, Corporate Development and Market Development. XING is planning to abide creating new jobs in adjustment to accomplish their advance goals. Currently 22 accessible positions are acquaint on the XING AG website.
About XING:
XING is the arch European arrangement for business contacts. 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, Milan, 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/
XING AG - Eoghan Jennings to leave XING AG able September 30
Hamburg, April 8, 2009 – Eoghan Jennings is dispatch down as Chief Financial Officer of XING AG on April 30, in adjustment to accompany new business endeavors in the fields of adventure basic and accumulated finance. Since abutting XING AG – the abettor of the arch European business arrangement XING – in October 2004, he has been active as CFO in auspiciously establishing the solid foundations of the aggregation and has played a axial role in council the advancing development and advance of XING AG. After dispatch down from the Management Board, Mr. Jennings will abide to abutment the aggregation in an advising accommodation until September 30, 2009.
"Over the endure four years, Eoghan Jennings has played a above allotment in accretion able standards at the company. He has implemented structural changes with abundant application and foresight, decidedly in the areas of accounting and controlling. Both the Management Board and Supervisory Board would like to accurate their acknowledgment to Eoghan for his charge and invaluable contributions. We are admiring that he will be continuing to admonish the aggregation over the months ahead,” said Dr. Stefan Gross-Selbeck, CEO of XING AG. The Supervisory Board aswell acknowledgment Eoghan for his admirable achievements and wishes him every connected success in the future. “I accept thoroughly enjoyed accepting complex in the acknowledged advance of the company. I leave XING AG in actual able easily and attending advanced to afterward its continuing progress,” said Mr. Jennings. He will now be axis his architect to new challenges ahead, adding, “I absolutely enjoyed accidental to XING’s arresting success over the endure few years and I now intend to administer the acquaintance acquired at XING as an broker and adviser to added adolescent start-up companies.”
As Chief Financial Officer of XING AG, Mr. Jennings was active in the acceleration of the aggregation from a start-up action to a absolute basic bazaar amateur aural just a few years. Besides accepting abundant circuit of basic from business angels and clandestine disinterestedness and, he aswell oversaw the amplification and enhancement of centralized structures aural the company’s Finance department, ambience up centralized accounting and authoritative processes and implementing all-embracing accounting standards (IFRS). The acknowledged IPO of the aggregation in 2006 apparent a above highlight in his authoritative career at XING AG, consistent in an antecedent bazaar assets in balance of €150 million. In the aeon that followed, the XING AG allotment delivered the best achievement if compared with all added IPOs in Germany with a absolute allocated affair aggregate of added than €50 million.
Since the IPO of the company, Eoghan Jennings has aswell been amenable for establishing the Investor Relations administration and basic markets communications of XING AG, which is listed in the Prime Standard of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange. This role has included albatross for the accomplishing of Annual General Meetings, as able-bodied as for all acting and anniversary reports. His administration administration has apparent an access in the afterimage of the aggregation allotment and the amount of advertisement analysts, as able-bodied as the acknowledged accretion of cogent investors for the company.
About XING:
XING is the arch European arrangement for business contacts. 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, Milan, Istanbul and Beijing.
XING. Powering Relationships.
Thorsten Vespermann
Director Corporate Communications
XING AG
Gaensemarkt 43
20354 Hamburg
Germany
+49 40-419131-763
press@xing.com
www.xing.com/profile/Thorsten_Vespermann/
"Over the endure four years, Eoghan Jennings has played a above allotment in accretion able standards at the company. He has implemented structural changes with abundant application and foresight, decidedly in the areas of accounting and controlling. Both the Management Board and Supervisory Board would like to accurate their acknowledgment to Eoghan for his charge and invaluable contributions. We are admiring that he will be continuing to admonish the aggregation over the months ahead,” said Dr. Stefan Gross-Selbeck, CEO of XING AG. The Supervisory Board aswell acknowledgment Eoghan for his admirable achievements and wishes him every connected success in the future. “I accept thoroughly enjoyed accepting complex in the acknowledged advance of the company. I leave XING AG in actual able easily and attending advanced to afterward its continuing progress,” said Mr. Jennings. He will now be axis his architect to new challenges ahead, adding, “I absolutely enjoyed accidental to XING’s arresting success over the endure few years and I now intend to administer the acquaintance acquired at XING as an broker and adviser to added adolescent start-up companies.”
As Chief Financial Officer of XING AG, Mr. Jennings was active in the acceleration of the aggregation from a start-up action to a absolute basic bazaar amateur aural just a few years. Besides accepting abundant circuit of basic from business angels and clandestine disinterestedness and, he aswell oversaw the amplification and enhancement of centralized structures aural the company’s Finance department, ambience up centralized accounting and authoritative processes and implementing all-embracing accounting standards (IFRS). The acknowledged IPO of the aggregation in 2006 apparent a above highlight in his authoritative career at XING AG, consistent in an antecedent bazaar assets in balance of €150 million. In the aeon that followed, the XING AG allotment delivered the best achievement if compared with all added IPOs in Germany with a absolute allocated affair aggregate of added than €50 million.
Since the IPO of the company, Eoghan Jennings has aswell been amenable for establishing the Investor Relations administration and basic markets communications of XING AG, which is listed in the Prime Standard of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange. This role has included albatross for the accomplishing of Annual General Meetings, as able-bodied as for all acting and anniversary reports. His administration administration has apparent an access in the afterimage of the aggregation allotment and the amount of advertisement analysts, as able-bodied as the acknowledged accretion of cogent investors for the company.
About XING:
XING is the arch European arrangement for business contacts. 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, Milan, Istanbul and Beijing.
XING. Powering Relationships.
Thorsten Vespermann
Director Corporate Communications
XING AG
Gaensemarkt 43
20354 Hamburg
Germany
+49 40-419131-763
press@xing.com
www.xing.com/profile/Thorsten_Vespermann/
XING AG - New on XING: Free and automated affectation of companies, organizations and able associations
Beta adaptation begins with over 96,000 Company Pages
Hamburg, April 16, 2009 – XING, the arch European business network, will now affectation automatically generated profiles of companies, organizations and able associations. Having been accessible to an antecedent accumulation of analysis users back endure week, over 500,000 paying Premium Members based in the German-speaking apple will now accept the befalling to tap into the arrangement abeyant of about 100,000 aggregation profiles with the new Company Pages feature. The new profiles, which are chargeless of allegation to companies, organizations and able associations, access the afterimage of these organizations, presenting them in a clearer way and advocacy the acquaintance abeyant of the platform. The beta adaptation already enables associates to get in blow with acquaintance humans at the adapted companies from a basin of about 100,000 profiles: for anniversary Company Page, at atomic four advisers advance claimed XING profiles, and can be contacted at the bang of a mouse.
Additional advice about the age of employees, career akin of advisers who are XING members, and breadth of time with the company, is generated automatically. The Company Pages affection is based on advice already absolute in XING affiliate profiles. To repeat, companies, organizations and able organizations do not accept to expend their own assets to actualize these profiles, and Company Pages are chargeless of allegation for all XING members.
New acknowledgment aperture sorts affiliate requests for a added customer-centered development approach
“The beta absolution of the new Company Pages is a absolute archetype for our new access to development, accepting the XING association complex in the development of new appearance as anon as possible," explained Jason Goldberg, Chief Product Officer at XING AG. “In adjustment to bigger administer the accretion aggregate of affiliate suggestions and carry it aback into artefact development, we are aswell introducing a new acknowledgment apparatus on the belvedere powered by UserVoice Inc. based in Santa Cruz, CA to accompany with the barrage of Company Pages.” The new acknowledgment aperture allows associates to amount products, accomplish suggestions for approaching developments and improvements, and animadversion on suggestions of others. What makes the acknowledgment aperture different is its accessible nature: all suggestions, all comments can be beheld by all XING members.
Besides convalescent and accretion the new Company Pages, XING intends to advanced its acceleration of innovation, and acquaint new appearance in Q2 of 2009. One such activity involves advancing the abstruse background for amalgam new applications from alien developers into the XING website application OpenSocial standards. “In the future, we're traveling to absolution new appearance in beta, and are analytic advanced to a lot of user feedback. As abundant as we adore accepting kudos, criticism and accurate suggestions for improvements will advice us even more, giving us the adventitious to accomplish enhancements and developments even faster than before. We’ll abide to advance and aggrandize the new Company Pages based on the suggestions and wishes of our associates so that the affection is as admired as it can be for XING users," said Mr. Goldberg.
About XING:
XING is the arch European arrangement for business contacts. 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, Milan, Istanbul and Beijing.
XING. Powering Relationships.
Thorsten Vespermann
Director Corporate Communications
XING AG
Gaensemarkt 43
20354 Hamburg
Germany
+49 40-419131-763
press@xing.com
www.xing.com/profile/Thorsten_Vespermann/
Hamburg, April 16, 2009 – XING, the arch European business network, will now affectation automatically generated profiles of companies, organizations and able associations. Having been accessible to an antecedent accumulation of analysis users back endure week, over 500,000 paying Premium Members based in the German-speaking apple will now accept the befalling to tap into the arrangement abeyant of about 100,000 aggregation profiles with the new Company Pages feature. The new profiles, which are chargeless of allegation to companies, organizations and able associations, access the afterimage of these organizations, presenting them in a clearer way and advocacy the acquaintance abeyant of the platform. The beta adaptation already enables associates to get in blow with acquaintance humans at the adapted companies from a basin of about 100,000 profiles: for anniversary Company Page, at atomic four advisers advance claimed XING profiles, and can be contacted at the bang of a mouse.
Additional advice about the age of employees, career akin of advisers who are XING members, and breadth of time with the company, is generated automatically. The Company Pages affection is based on advice already absolute in XING affiliate profiles. To repeat, companies, organizations and able organizations do not accept to expend their own assets to actualize these profiles, and Company Pages are chargeless of allegation for all XING members.
New acknowledgment aperture sorts affiliate requests for a added customer-centered development approach
“The beta absolution of the new Company Pages is a absolute archetype for our new access to development, accepting the XING association complex in the development of new appearance as anon as possible," explained Jason Goldberg, Chief Product Officer at XING AG. “In adjustment to bigger administer the accretion aggregate of affiliate suggestions and carry it aback into artefact development, we are aswell introducing a new acknowledgment apparatus on the belvedere powered by UserVoice Inc. based in Santa Cruz, CA to accompany with the barrage of Company Pages.” The new acknowledgment aperture allows associates to amount products, accomplish suggestions for approaching developments and improvements, and animadversion on suggestions of others. What makes the acknowledgment aperture different is its accessible nature: all suggestions, all comments can be beheld by all XING members.
Besides convalescent and accretion the new Company Pages, XING intends to advanced its acceleration of innovation, and acquaint new appearance in Q2 of 2009. One such activity involves advancing the abstruse background for amalgam new applications from alien developers into the XING website application OpenSocial standards. “In the future, we're traveling to absolution new appearance in beta, and are analytic advanced to a lot of user feedback. As abundant as we adore accepting kudos, criticism and accurate suggestions for improvements will advice us even more, giving us the adventitious to accomplish enhancements and developments even faster than before. We’ll abide to advance and aggrandize the new Company Pages based on the suggestions and wishes of our associates so that the affection is as admired as it can be for XING users," said Mr. Goldberg.
About XING:
XING is the arch European arrangement for business contacts. 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, Milan, Istanbul and Beijing.
XING. Powering Relationships.
Thorsten Vespermann
Director Corporate Communications
XING AG
Gaensemarkt 43
20354 Hamburg
Germany
+49 40-419131-763
press@xing.com
www.xing.com/profile/Thorsten_Vespermann/
XING AG - XING AG continues assisting growth
•New development action leads to an accelerated bounce of innovation
•XING opens up to third parties
•Number of advisers added by 89 percent to adapt for growth
•New CFO of XING starting July 1: Ingo Chu
Hamburg, May 14, 2009 – In the aboriginal three months of this year, the business arrangement run by Hamburg-based XING AG, listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange, acquired 51 thousand new paying members. 601 thousand XING associates now accept to pay for Premium functions, which amounts to a advance of 43.1 percent aural the endure twelve months (Q1/2008: 420 thousand). Furthermore, the absolute associates abject has added by about 500,000 back the alpha of the year to 7.5 actor (Q1/2009: 7.48 actor compared to 5.71 actor in Q3/2008).
The Company was aswell able to addition revenues over the antecedent year’s aboriginal division by 43.3%, admitting the connected all-around banking crisis (Q1/2009: €10.76 actor against €7.51 actor in Q1/2008). In the absorption of accelerating the acceleration of addition and advancing for accepted and advancing growth, 112 new advisers and managers were assassin in the accomplished 12 months. In the aboriginal division of 2009, the Company assassin over 50 new employees, appropriately commutual HR activities for the absolute year, with the barring of a few accessible positions. At present, XING AG has over 239 employees, which amounts to an access of 89% over the antecedent aboriginal division (Q1/2008: 127). Even with the abundant access in staff, the Company was able to hardly addition its profits by 3.7% in Q1/09 (Q1/08: €1.62 actor compared to €1.68 actor in Q1/09).
“In a aeon of bread-and-butter crisis, XING is continuing to abound and abide actual profitable, and we're annoyed with these results. In adjustment to added aggrandize our bazaar position, we accept assassin a amount of actual able employees, invested heavily and alien a new development strategy, which will abundantly advanced our acceleration of innovation. Now with the acknowledged barrage of OpenSocial applications, we’ve laid the abstruse foundation for accouterment our associates with accordant appearance developed by third-party developers. By accomplishing so, we’ve started ambience our cardinal advance for accretion the viral advance of our association in adjustment to ensure assisting advance in the future. Furthermore, I’m blessed to advertise that we’ve assassin a actual competent new CFO for the company, Ingo Chu,” said Dr. Stefan Gross-Selbeck, CEO of XING AG.
Ingo Chu to be new CFO of XING AG
Starting July 1, 2009, Ingo Chu will be the new CFO of XING AG. Mr. Chu is 38 years of age, and brings with him years of acquaintance alive for Internet companies and the media, and has the all-important ability set to advice XING AG accomplish its goals of accretion operations. Mr. Chu currently works at the Bertelsmann Group, area he has been for about 14 years. He has captivated assorted positions at Bertelsmann at a authoritative level, and for the accomplished seven years, has been CFO of the RTL Shop GmbH, a Bertelsmann company. Starting July 1, he will accept the role of CFO at XING AG. He will arch the Accounting, Investor Relations, Controlling, and BI divisions. Mr. Chu will alter the accepted CFO Eoghan Jennings, who is abrogation the Company to accompany added career opportunities, and has agreed to argue XING AG until September 30.
About XING:
XING is the arch European online business network. Over seven actor associates use XING in 16 languages to do business, acquisition jobs, and accompany a career. XING helps associates get affiliated and break in blow with their contacts with customized networking solutions and services. Members are breath on XING because of the absolute amount generated, with XING Jobs, over 26 thousand specialized groups, and over 90 thousand abide networking contest a year, organized by associates for members.
XING AG went accessible in December 2006 as the aboriginal Web 2.0 aggregation to do so, and the XING AG allotment has been able since. A around-the-clock access in associates abstracts leads to accretion revenues and profits. XING AG is headquartered in Hamburg, Germany, and has bounded offices in Barcelona, Istanbul, Milan, and Beijing.
XING. Powering Relationships.
Thorsten Vespermann
Director Corporate Communications
XING AG
Gaensemarkt 43
20354 Hamburg
Germany
+49 40-419131-763
press@xing.com
www.xing.com/profile/Thorsten_Vespermann/
•XING opens up to third parties
•Number of advisers added by 89 percent to adapt for growth
•New CFO of XING starting July 1: Ingo Chu
Hamburg, May 14, 2009 – In the aboriginal three months of this year, the business arrangement run by Hamburg-based XING AG, listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange, acquired 51 thousand new paying members. 601 thousand XING associates now accept to pay for Premium functions, which amounts to a advance of 43.1 percent aural the endure twelve months (Q1/2008: 420 thousand). Furthermore, the absolute associates abject has added by about 500,000 back the alpha of the year to 7.5 actor (Q1/2009: 7.48 actor compared to 5.71 actor in Q3/2008).
The Company was aswell able to addition revenues over the antecedent year’s aboriginal division by 43.3%, admitting the connected all-around banking crisis (Q1/2009: €10.76 actor against €7.51 actor in Q1/2008). In the absorption of accelerating the acceleration of addition and advancing for accepted and advancing growth, 112 new advisers and managers were assassin in the accomplished 12 months. In the aboriginal division of 2009, the Company assassin over 50 new employees, appropriately commutual HR activities for the absolute year, with the barring of a few accessible positions. At present, XING AG has over 239 employees, which amounts to an access of 89% over the antecedent aboriginal division (Q1/2008: 127). Even with the abundant access in staff, the Company was able to hardly addition its profits by 3.7% in Q1/09 (Q1/08: €1.62 actor compared to €1.68 actor in Q1/09).
“In a aeon of bread-and-butter crisis, XING is continuing to abound and abide actual profitable, and we're annoyed with these results. In adjustment to added aggrandize our bazaar position, we accept assassin a amount of actual able employees, invested heavily and alien a new development strategy, which will abundantly advanced our acceleration of innovation. Now with the acknowledged barrage of OpenSocial applications, we’ve laid the abstruse foundation for accouterment our associates with accordant appearance developed by third-party developers. By accomplishing so, we’ve started ambience our cardinal advance for accretion the viral advance of our association in adjustment to ensure assisting advance in the future. Furthermore, I’m blessed to advertise that we’ve assassin a actual competent new CFO for the company, Ingo Chu,” said Dr. Stefan Gross-Selbeck, CEO of XING AG.
Ingo Chu to be new CFO of XING AG
Starting July 1, 2009, Ingo Chu will be the new CFO of XING AG. Mr. Chu is 38 years of age, and brings with him years of acquaintance alive for Internet companies and the media, and has the all-important ability set to advice XING AG accomplish its goals of accretion operations. Mr. Chu currently works at the Bertelsmann Group, area he has been for about 14 years. He has captivated assorted positions at Bertelsmann at a authoritative level, and for the accomplished seven years, has been CFO of the RTL Shop GmbH, a Bertelsmann company. Starting July 1, he will accept the role of CFO at XING AG. He will arch the Accounting, Investor Relations, Controlling, and BI divisions. Mr. Chu will alter the accepted CFO Eoghan Jennings, who is abrogation the Company to accompany added career opportunities, and has agreed to argue XING AG until September 30.
About XING:
XING is the arch European online business network. Over seven actor associates use XING in 16 languages to do business, acquisition jobs, and accompany a career. XING helps associates get affiliated and break in blow with their contacts with customized networking solutions and services. Members are breath on XING because of the absolute amount generated, with XING Jobs, over 26 thousand specialized groups, and over 90 thousand abide networking contest a year, organized by associates for members.
XING AG went accessible in December 2006 as the aboriginal Web 2.0 aggregation to do so, and the XING AG allotment has been able since. A around-the-clock access in associates abstracts leads to accretion revenues and profits. XING AG is headquartered in Hamburg, Germany, and has bounded offices in Barcelona, Istanbul, Milan, and Beijing.
XING. Powering Relationships.
Thorsten Vespermann
Director Corporate Communications
XING AG
Gaensemarkt 43
20354 Hamburg
Germany
+49 40-419131-763
press@xing.com
www.xing.com/profile/Thorsten_Vespermann/
XING AG - XING has a new abide Twitter search
Hamburg, June 25, 2009 –XING (www.xing.com) – the arch European business arrangement – will today barrage Twitter Buzz, a new web-based app acceptance professionals to accumulate up on trends and opinions on the accepted microblogging service, Twitter. The app gives over seven actor XING associates acceptance to a real-time Twitter keyword filter, and shows after-effects anon on the alone XING affiliate home page. With Twitter Buzz, you can seek for your aggregation or advance the competition, see what’s accepting said about the accessible barter fair or the latest software releases.
Jason Goldberg, Chief Product Officer of XING AG, said “In contempo months, we’ve launched a amount of appearance with a individual goal: Making XING even added admired for as abounding of our associates as possible. We listened to affiliate feedback, and put antecedence on absolution absolutely those appearance which will add the a lot of amount to the able lives of our users. The new app Twitter Buzz fits this abstraction exactly.”
Twitter Buzz is one of the aboriginal new XING OpenSocial apps
Following in the success of XING News and Ask XING, Twitter Buzz represents the third OpenSocial app developed by XING, currently in beta. The new app will affection 5 languages from its launch, and can be displayed on the XING home page and on a appropriate overview page. Due to the accepted attributes of the OpenSocial API, XING will be able of amalgam third-party applications, the aboriginal of which will go abide in advancing weeks.
Twitter Buzz is chargeless of allegation for all XING members, and can be added by beat here:
www.xing.com/opensocial/canvas;app=3
Two months ago, XING launched its aboriginal Twitter-based add-on, acceptance associates to cheep about contest they were accessory or organizing. The success of this affection was substantial, and confirms the boundless use of Twitter for business-related topics.
About XING:
XING is the arch European online business network. Over seven actor associates use XING in 16 languages to do business, acquisition jobs, and accompany a career. XING helps associates get affiliated and break in blow with their contacts with customized networking solutions and services. Members are breath on XING because of the absolute amount generated, with XING Jobs, over 26 thousand specialized groups, and over 90 thousand abide networking contest a year, organized by associates for members.
XING AG went accessible in December 2006 as the aboriginal Web 2.0 aggregation to do so, and the XING AG allotment has been able since. A around-the-clock access in associates abstracts leads to accretion revenues and profits. XING AG is headquartered in Hamburg, Germany, and has bounded offices in Barcelona, Istanbul, Milan, and Beijing.
XING. Powering Relationships.
Thorsten Vespermann
Director Corporate Communications
XING AG
Gaensemarkt 43
20354 Hamburg
press@xing.com
+49 40-419131-763
www.xing.com/profile/Thorsten_Vespermann/
Jason Goldberg, Chief Product Officer of XING AG, said “In contempo months, we’ve launched a amount of appearance with a individual goal: Making XING even added admired for as abounding of our associates as possible. We listened to affiliate feedback, and put antecedence on absolution absolutely those appearance which will add the a lot of amount to the able lives of our users. The new app Twitter Buzz fits this abstraction exactly.”
Twitter Buzz is one of the aboriginal new XING OpenSocial apps
Following in the success of XING News and Ask XING, Twitter Buzz represents the third OpenSocial app developed by XING, currently in beta. The new app will affection 5 languages from its launch, and can be displayed on the XING home page and on a appropriate overview page. Due to the accepted attributes of the OpenSocial API, XING will be able of amalgam third-party applications, the aboriginal of which will go abide in advancing weeks.
Twitter Buzz is chargeless of allegation for all XING members, and can be added by beat here:
www.xing.com/opensocial/canvas;app=3
Two months ago, XING launched its aboriginal Twitter-based add-on, acceptance associates to cheep about contest they were accessory or organizing. The success of this affection was substantial, and confirms the boundless use of Twitter for business-related topics.
About XING:
XING is the arch European online business network. Over seven actor associates use XING in 16 languages to do business, acquisition jobs, and accompany a career. XING helps associates get affiliated and break in blow with their contacts with customized networking solutions and services. Members are breath on XING because of the absolute amount generated, with XING Jobs, over 26 thousand specialized groups, and over 90 thousand abide networking contest a year, organized by associates for members.
XING AG went accessible in December 2006 as the aboriginal Web 2.0 aggregation to do so, and the XING AG allotment has been able since. A around-the-clock access in associates abstracts leads to accretion revenues and profits. XING AG is headquartered in Hamburg, Germany, and has bounded offices in Barcelona, Istanbul, Milan, and Beijing.
XING. Powering Relationships.
Thorsten Vespermann
Director Corporate Communications
XING AG
Gaensemarkt 43
20354 Hamburg
press@xing.com
+49 40-419131-763
www.xing.com/profile/Thorsten_Vespermann/
XING AG - Ingo Chu assumes new column as CFO of XING AG
Hamburg, July 01, 2009 – Ingo Chu (38) started his position today as the new CFO of the about listed XING AG, based in Hamburg, Germany. Prior to demography up his new column at the company, Mr. Chu formed for about 14 years at the Bertelsmann Group, as a administrator in the TV and eCommerce divisions. His a lot of contempo position was as CFO of the RTL Shop GmbH in Cologne/Hanover. As new CFO at XING AG, he assumes albatross for the Controlling, Investor Relations, Accounting and Business Intelligence divisions. Mr. Chu succeeds the above CFO Eoghan Jennings, as planned.
"XING is one of the a lot of acknowledged European Internet companies, and the alone aggregation of its affectionate in the world: a amusing arrangement that's listed on the banal market, and is aswell growing profitably. I'm actual aflame to accompany the aggregation and get started on the tasks apprehension me," commented Mr. Chu.
"Ingo is able-bodied abreast with Internet business and media at a top authoritative level. His acquaintance and ability will be invaluable to us. We're in an ideal position to abide our advance strategy," commented Dr. Stefan Gross-Selbeck, CEO of XING AG.
About XING:
XING is the arch European online business network. Over seven actor associates use XING in 16 languages to do business, acquisition jobs, and accompany a career. XING helps associates get affiliated and break in blow with their contacts with customized networking solutions and services. Members are breath on XING because of the absolute amount generated, with XING Jobs, over 26 thousand specialized groups, and over 90 thousand abide networking contest a year, organized by associates for members.
XING AG went accessible in December 2006 as the aboriginal Web 2.0 aggregation to do so, and the XING AG allotment has been able since. A around-the-clock access in associates abstracts leads to accretion revenues and profits. XING AG is headquartered in Hamburg, Germany, and has bounded offices in Barcelona, Istanbul, Milan, and Beijing.
XING. Powering Relationships.
Thorsten Vespermann
----------------------------
Director Corporate Communications
XING AG
Gaensemarkt 43
20354 Hamburg
Germany
+49 40-419131-763
press@xing.com
www.xing.com/profile/Thorsten_Vespermann/
"XING is one of the a lot of acknowledged European Internet companies, and the alone aggregation of its affectionate in the world: a amusing arrangement that's listed on the banal market, and is aswell growing profitably. I'm actual aflame to accompany the aggregation and get started on the tasks apprehension me," commented Mr. Chu.
"Ingo is able-bodied abreast with Internet business and media at a top authoritative level. His acquaintance and ability will be invaluable to us. We're in an ideal position to abide our advance strategy," commented Dr. Stefan Gross-Selbeck, CEO of XING AG.
About XING:
XING is the arch European online business network. Over seven actor associates use XING in 16 languages to do business, acquisition jobs, and accompany a career. XING helps associates get affiliated and break in blow with their contacts with customized networking solutions and services. Members are breath on XING because of the absolute amount generated, with XING Jobs, over 26 thousand specialized groups, and over 90 thousand abide networking contest a year, organized by associates for members.
XING AG went accessible in December 2006 as the aboriginal Web 2.0 aggregation to do so, and the XING AG allotment has been able since. A around-the-clock access in associates abstracts leads to accretion revenues and profits. XING AG is headquartered in Hamburg, Germany, and has bounded offices in Barcelona, Istanbul, Milan, and Beijing.
XING. Powering Relationships.
Thorsten Vespermann
----------------------------
Director Corporate Communications
XING AG
Gaensemarkt 43
20354 Hamburg
Germany
+49 40-419131-763
press@xing.com
www.xing.com/profile/Thorsten_Vespermann/
MindMeister - XING integrates Social Brainstorming apparatus MindMeister into new appliance platform
MindMeister on XINGStore this angel in big sizeFrom today, acknowledgment to the affiliation of the arch web-based amusing brainstorming apparatus MindMeister into the new XING Partner Ecosystem, 7.5 actor XING users can create, share, and collaboratively adapt apperception maps anon aural the platform. Along with MindMeister, XING is introducing a added 15 3rd affair applications today.
Hamburg, July 22, 2009 – A absolute of 16 applications from XING and 13 new ally from seven countries will be launched footfall by footfall on the XING belvedere from today onwards. Utilizing the new appliance belvedere of the XING Partner Ecosystem, Europe’s arch business arrangement will now accommodate its associates with a abundance of business-related apps developed by accomplice companies. In the advancing days, new accoutrement by MindMeister, Huddle.net, Doodle, Dopplr, Deutsche Welle, SlideShare, spreed, travelload, Tungle, sueddeutsche.de, Wallstreet:Online, WELT ONLINE and ZCOPE will be alien to the belvedere via the new OpenSocial interface. From account and activity administration through to biking planning and abstracts administration – the new apps can be installed free-of-charge at www.xing.com/opensocial and will be accessible to all XING members, in accession to the absolute appearance on the XING platform.
Stefan Gross-Selbeck, CEO of XING AG, said: “Working calm with our partners, our cardinal aim is to accomplish XING even added admired for our business community. With this ambition in mind, the requests and requirements of our associates will anatomy the key focus of our efforts as we advance the XING Partner Ecosystem added and baddest new apps on an advancing basis.”
The aboriginal apps to be alien are targeted primarily at business professionals who coact accidentally with colleagues and business partners, who biking abundantly on business and ambition to break abreast about account and accepted affairs.
Brainstorm online with accompany and colleagues
The award-winning online apperception mapping account MindMeister is one of the avant-garde applications accepting presented today for all XING members. Users can actualize and acceptation apperception maps beeline from the XING home awning or baddest them from a account of predefined templates – for assorted capacity as claimed assignment management, affair preparation, conception of business plans, or SWOT analyses. A appropriate “Curriculum Vitae” apperception map can calmly be anchored aural a user’s accessible XING contour to advertise apprenticeship and abilities in a atypical way.
“We’re absolutely aflame to be a allotment of the barrage ally of this new platform. What makes the affiliation abnormally ambrosial in our appearance is the adeptness to allotment apperception maps anon with your absolute XING contacts and again accordingly plan on them online. This opens up abounding new possibilities for amusing brainstorming, acceptance you to coact with others on business proposals, deals and any added affectionate of activity above all bounded boundaries,” says Till Vollmer, Managing Director of MeisterLabs GmbH.
MindMeister is accessible as a 3rd affair appliance aural the XING Partner Ecosystem starting today. Furthermore, all XING associates will accept adorable discounts if purchasing a abounding associates at www.MindMeister.com - 20% for XING exceptional users, 10% for chargeless anniversary holders.
About MindMeister:
MindMeister is the market-leading collaborative online apperception mapping and anticipation tool. Launched in May 2007, the website bound acquired absorption a allotment of businesses, educational organizations and consumers. MindMeister's allowances comprise affluence of use, online and offline availability, real-time collaboration, and sharing. It innovates the way you crop notes, brainstorm, or plan your projects.
MindMeister - a alone browser-based software account - takes out the altercation of advancement software installs for acceptance in organizations like schools or enterprises.
About XING:
XING is the arch European online business network. Over 7.5 actor associates use XING in 16 languages to do business, acquisition jobs, and accompany a career. XING helps associates get affiliated and break in blow with their contacts with customized networking solutions and services. Members are breath on XING because of the absolute amount generated, with XING Jobs, over 26 thousand specialized groups, and over 90 thousand abide networking contest a year, organized by associates for members.
XING AG went accessible in December 2006 as the aboriginal Web 2.0 aggregation to do so. A around-the-clock access in associates abstracts leads to accretion revenues and profits. XING AG is headquartered in Hamburg, Germany, and has bounded offices in Barcelona, Istanbul and Milan.
MeisterLabs GmbH
Verena Betten
Marketing Manager
Phone: +49 (89) 12135359
Fax: +49 (89) 18921347
Email: verena@mindmeister.com
Hamburg, July 22, 2009 – A absolute of 16 applications from XING and 13 new ally from seven countries will be launched footfall by footfall on the XING belvedere from today onwards. Utilizing the new appliance belvedere of the XING Partner Ecosystem, Europe’s arch business arrangement will now accommodate its associates with a abundance of business-related apps developed by accomplice companies. In the advancing days, new accoutrement by MindMeister, Huddle.net, Doodle, Dopplr, Deutsche Welle, SlideShare, spreed, travelload, Tungle, sueddeutsche.de, Wallstreet:Online, WELT ONLINE and ZCOPE will be alien to the belvedere via the new OpenSocial interface. From account and activity administration through to biking planning and abstracts administration – the new apps can be installed free-of-charge at www.xing.com/opensocial and will be accessible to all XING members, in accession to the absolute appearance on the XING platform.
Stefan Gross-Selbeck, CEO of XING AG, said: “Working calm with our partners, our cardinal aim is to accomplish XING even added admired for our business community. With this ambition in mind, the requests and requirements of our associates will anatomy the key focus of our efforts as we advance the XING Partner Ecosystem added and baddest new apps on an advancing basis.”
The aboriginal apps to be alien are targeted primarily at business professionals who coact accidentally with colleagues and business partners, who biking abundantly on business and ambition to break abreast about account and accepted affairs.
Brainstorm online with accompany and colleagues
The award-winning online apperception mapping account MindMeister is one of the avant-garde applications accepting presented today for all XING members. Users can actualize and acceptation apperception maps beeline from the XING home awning or baddest them from a account of predefined templates – for assorted capacity as claimed assignment management, affair preparation, conception of business plans, or SWOT analyses. A appropriate “Curriculum Vitae” apperception map can calmly be anchored aural a user’s accessible XING contour to advertise apprenticeship and abilities in a atypical way.
“We’re absolutely aflame to be a allotment of the barrage ally of this new platform. What makes the affiliation abnormally ambrosial in our appearance is the adeptness to allotment apperception maps anon with your absolute XING contacts and again accordingly plan on them online. This opens up abounding new possibilities for amusing brainstorming, acceptance you to coact with others on business proposals, deals and any added affectionate of activity above all bounded boundaries,” says Till Vollmer, Managing Director of MeisterLabs GmbH.
MindMeister is accessible as a 3rd affair appliance aural the XING Partner Ecosystem starting today. Furthermore, all XING associates will accept adorable discounts if purchasing a abounding associates at www.MindMeister.com - 20% for XING exceptional users, 10% for chargeless anniversary holders.
About MindMeister:
MindMeister is the market-leading collaborative online apperception mapping and anticipation tool. Launched in May 2007, the website bound acquired absorption a allotment of businesses, educational organizations and consumers. MindMeister's allowances comprise affluence of use, online and offline availability, real-time collaboration, and sharing. It innovates the way you crop notes, brainstorm, or plan your projects.
MindMeister - a alone browser-based software account - takes out the altercation of advancement software installs for acceptance in organizations like schools or enterprises.
About XING:
XING is the arch European online business network. Over 7.5 actor associates use XING in 16 languages to do business, acquisition jobs, and accompany a career. XING helps associates get affiliated and break in blow with their contacts with customized networking solutions and services. Members are breath on XING because of the absolute amount generated, with XING Jobs, over 26 thousand specialized groups, and over 90 thousand abide networking contest a year, organized by associates for members.
XING AG went accessible in December 2006 as the aboriginal Web 2.0 aggregation to do so. A around-the-clock access in associates abstracts leads to accretion revenues and profits. XING AG is headquartered in Hamburg, Germany, and has bounded offices in Barcelona, Istanbul and Milan.
MeisterLabs GmbH
Verena Betten
Marketing Manager
Phone: +49 (89) 12135359
Fax: +49 (89) 18921347
Email: verena@mindmeister.com
XING AG - XING Partner Ecosystem starts with 16 applications from 13 partners
The new XING Partner Ecosystem is paving the way for even added assorted means for the over 7.5 actor XING associates to account from the belvedere in their circadian alive lives. At the aforementioned time, the barrage marks the aperture up of the arch European business arrangement for new applications from third-party developers.
Hamburg, July 22, 2009 – A absolute of 16 applications from XING and 13 new ally from seven countries will be launched footfall by footfall on the XING belvedere from this afternoon onwards. Utilizing the new appliance belvedere of the XING Partner Ecosystem, Europe’s arch business arrangement will accommodate its associates with a abundance of business-related apps developed by accomplice companies. In the advancing days, new accoutrement by Huddle.net, Doodle, Dopplr, Deutsche Welle, MindMeister, SlideShare, spreed, travelload, Tungle, sueddeutsche.de, Wallstreet:Online, WELT ONLINE and ZCOPE will be alien to the belvedere via the new OpenSocial interface. From account and activity administration through to biking planning and abstracts administration – the new apps can be installed free-of-charge at www.xing.com/opensocial and will be accessible to all XING members, in accession to the absolute appearance on the XING platform.
Stefan Gross-Selbeck, CEO of XING AG, said: “Working calm with our partners, our cardinal aim is to accomplish XING even added admired for our business community. With this ambition in mind, the requests and requirements of our associates will anatomy the key focus of our efforts as we advance the XING Partner Ecosystem added and baddest new apps on an advancing basis.”
New apps will ensure added amount for assorted business needs
XING associates accept a all-inclusive ambit of altered able interests and requirements. Accordingly, applications will accommodate altered degrees of added amount for altered users. This acumen forms the axial acumen why the barrage of the XING Partner Ecosystem incorporates a advanced array of new apps advised for associates to accomplish use of XING in even added assorted ways. The aboriginal apps to be alien are targeted primarily at business professionals who coact accidentally with colleagues and business partners, who biking abundantly on business and ambition to break abreast about account and accepted affairs. New apps will be added to the appliance belvedere on a connected base over the advancing weeks. These will accompaniment the apps already developed by XING itself, including the “XING News” and “Ask XING” apps launched in May and the “TwitterBuzz” app launched in June. Uniquely for business networks, the XING Partner Ecosystem will accordingly accommodate a ample mix of all-embracing apps that are tailored absolutely to specific industries and professions, or accept a bounded focus. Together with new partners, XING will be accretion this spectrum of applications on an advancing basis.
XING Partner Ecosystem: New opportunities for third-party developers too
Jason Goldberg, Chief Product Officer at XING AG, sees the aperture up of the belvedere as an appropriately agitative befalling for XING, its associates and third-party developers alike:
“The new XING Partner Ecosystem and the enabling of acceptance to alien developers backpack immense abeyant for architecture on the user amount our associates can accretion from XING. We will be accommodating with both all-embracing and bounded partners, as we are acquainted too that a lot of business is bounded for abounding of our users. Besides our members, our ally are of advance aswell set to account abundantly from alms their app to a association of added than 7.5 actor users.”
XING actively selects accomplice companies and requires them to both accommodated the Company’s austere standards with account to abstracts aloofness and abstruse and agreeable quality, and aswell to action advantageous business-related casework to the better amount of associates possible. Mr. Goldberg continues: “We are actual admiring about the ample acknowledgment we accept already accustomed from third-party developers adulatory to plan with us. The user acknowledgment we are now accepting will be in actuality key to developing the a lot of accordant apps for our members, calm with the actual best partners.” Companies absorbed in partnering with XING can apprentice added about the XING Partner Ecosystem at www.xing.com/net/opensocialpartner.
Here’s a arbitrary of the aboriginal new accomplice apps:
Social scheduling:
Doodle
Doodle is a arch online apparatus if it comes to acquisition the appropriate time for a accumulation of professionals to meet. It takes abroad the affliction of email volleys and agenda addendum and closes the gap amid claimed agenda systems. On XING, Doodle is added with amusing features, e.g. you can see affair acclamation in advance in accepted with your contacts.
Tungle
Tungle.me, a aboriginal in click-to-meet technology, is the simplest way for professionals to accomplish affairs happen. Tungle.me enhances a user’s contour by acceptance XING associates to appearance their availability and bound agenda a affair by proposing assorted times. When the affair is booked, everyone’s agenda is automatically updated. Tungle syncs with Outlook, Google Calendar, Apple iCal and Entourage for Mac.
Collaboration/project management/workspaces:
Huddle Workspaces
Huddle Workspaces offers XING associates defended workspaces to abreast allotment advice and plan calm with their connections. Users can abundance and allotment files, coact on abstracts and actualize clandestine discussions. With Huddle Workspaces, abstracts can be created and edited online, users may aswell column comments and appeal approvals. Tasks, whiteboards, buzz and web conferencing are accessible aloft synchronising with a free, abounding Huddle.net account.
MindMeister
MindMeister brings apperception mapping to the web, application its accessories for real-time accord to acquiesce absolutely all-around brainstorming sessions. Users can create, administer and allotment apperception maps online and acceptance them anytime, anywhere through the award-winning web interface. Mind maps are awful advantageous to begin and allotment ideas, administer meetings, anatomy abstracts and plan projects the simple way.
ZCOPE
ZCOPE is an simple to use activity administration apparatus for networked teams of all industries alive calm from limited locations. It follows the active adjustment and is focussed on the capital in managing projects. Using ZCOPE, teams can allotment version-controlled documents, acquaint via activity blogs, and coact on tasks.
Collaboration/web meetings:
spreed
spreed is a web-based band-aid for acclimation web meetings, online conferences and presentations in Europe and about the world. Using spreed, XING associates can authority free-of-cost web affairs and blast conferences, accord presentations, deliver documents, or artlessly accommodated online with attendees.
That means: they assets a affair room, allure participants, and present themselves and their account to the audience, abide on the Internet.
Sharing:
SlideShare
SlideShare allows XING associates to upload PowerPoint presentations, Word or PDF documents, allotment them with added members, and to acquisition able presentations on a advanced amount of topics. XING associates can use SlideShare to bury presentations or abstracts into their profile, and appearance off their expertise, product, or account to their network: yet addition way to get even added business leads.
Travel:
Dopplr: Where Next?
Dopplr is an online account for smarter travel. It helps you allotment your biking affairs abreast with accompany and colleagues. It spots co-incidences and helps you accomplish added of your trips. For example, it can acquaint you that three humans you apperceive will be in Tokyo if you are there next week. Dopplr’s Social Atlas helps you ascertain acceptable places to eat, break and analyze while traveling.
travelload
travelload helps common travelers adapt their trips, administer itineraries, and more. Create a alone avenue itinerary, and column it on your XING profile, or download capital cruise advice assimilate your smartphone or adaptable device, and crop it with you wherever you go.
News:
Deutsche Welle
Deutsche Welle is Germany's all-embracing anchorperson that produces television, radio and online agreeable in 30 languages. Its different mix of news, accomplishments advice and cultural highlights offers European insights to all-embracing issues to humans about the world. The "DW News app" offers XING associates the achievability to accommodate accepted account from Deutsche Welle into their profile. Every affiliate can acclimatize the settings to accommodated their needs. Besides selecting a language, it is aswell accessible to allegorize accountable headings in altered ways.
wallstreet:online
For the abundant XING associates in the Finance industry, the wallstreet:online app is the ideal accessory to a XING profile. wallstreet:online is the better and a lot of breath banking association in Germany. Users can actualize basic portfolios and watch lists, apprehend account and appearance abundant analyses and opinions. By bond banal data to the latest association postings, the wallstreet:online app puts abundant bazaar advice just a mouseclick away.
WELT ONLINE
With one of the better circulations in Germany and a ample ambit of columnist coverage, the online account aperture WELT ONLINE keeps XING readers abreast and in-the-know on a circadian base – all-encompassing accomplishments advantage and contemporary stories. Users can clarify account appropriately to their own interests and appearance these account items anon on their alpha page. They can aswell acquisition out what added humans are reading, and allotment angle on specific issues and accepted address with both the XING and WELT ONLINE communities.
Edutainment:
sueddeutsche.de – CareerCamp
XING users can analysis their career opportunities at the sueddeutsche.de CareerCamp by demography tests on a array of capacity such as etiquette, accepted ability or personality. Users can aswell see their baronial a allotment of all participants, or just their acquaintance network. The app aswell appearance account and links to absorbing and a lot of latest online autograph on sueddeutsche.de, the online aperture of the Süddeutsche Zeitung, Germany's better circadian above newspaper.
About XING:
XING is the arch European online business network. Over 7.5 actor associates use XING in 16 languages to do business, acquisition jobs, and accompany a career. XING helps associates get affiliated and break in blow with their contacts with customized networking solutions and services. Members are breath on XING because of the absolute amount generated, with XING Jobs, over 26 thousand specialized groups, and over 90 thousand abide networking contest a year, organized by associates for members.
XING AG went accessible in December 2006 as the aboriginal Web 2.0 aggregation to do so. A around-the-clock access in associates abstracts leads to accretion revenues and profits. XING AG is headquartered in Hamburg, Germany, and has bounded offices in Barcelona, Istanbul and Milan.
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/
Hamburg, July 22, 2009 – A absolute of 16 applications from XING and 13 new ally from seven countries will be launched footfall by footfall on the XING belvedere from this afternoon onwards. Utilizing the new appliance belvedere of the XING Partner Ecosystem, Europe’s arch business arrangement will accommodate its associates with a abundance of business-related apps developed by accomplice companies. In the advancing days, new accoutrement by Huddle.net, Doodle, Dopplr, Deutsche Welle, MindMeister, SlideShare, spreed, travelload, Tungle, sueddeutsche.de, Wallstreet:Online, WELT ONLINE and ZCOPE will be alien to the belvedere via the new OpenSocial interface. From account and activity administration through to biking planning and abstracts administration – the new apps can be installed free-of-charge at www.xing.com/opensocial and will be accessible to all XING members, in accession to the absolute appearance on the XING platform.
Stefan Gross-Selbeck, CEO of XING AG, said: “Working calm with our partners, our cardinal aim is to accomplish XING even added admired for our business community. With this ambition in mind, the requests and requirements of our associates will anatomy the key focus of our efforts as we advance the XING Partner Ecosystem added and baddest new apps on an advancing basis.”
New apps will ensure added amount for assorted business needs
XING associates accept a all-inclusive ambit of altered able interests and requirements. Accordingly, applications will accommodate altered degrees of added amount for altered users. This acumen forms the axial acumen why the barrage of the XING Partner Ecosystem incorporates a advanced array of new apps advised for associates to accomplish use of XING in even added assorted ways. The aboriginal apps to be alien are targeted primarily at business professionals who coact accidentally with colleagues and business partners, who biking abundantly on business and ambition to break abreast about account and accepted affairs. New apps will be added to the appliance belvedere on a connected base over the advancing weeks. These will accompaniment the apps already developed by XING itself, including the “XING News” and “Ask XING” apps launched in May and the “TwitterBuzz” app launched in June. Uniquely for business networks, the XING Partner Ecosystem will accordingly accommodate a ample mix of all-embracing apps that are tailored absolutely to specific industries and professions, or accept a bounded focus. Together with new partners, XING will be accretion this spectrum of applications on an advancing basis.
XING Partner Ecosystem: New opportunities for third-party developers too
Jason Goldberg, Chief Product Officer at XING AG, sees the aperture up of the belvedere as an appropriately agitative befalling for XING, its associates and third-party developers alike:
“The new XING Partner Ecosystem and the enabling of acceptance to alien developers backpack immense abeyant for architecture on the user amount our associates can accretion from XING. We will be accommodating with both all-embracing and bounded partners, as we are acquainted too that a lot of business is bounded for abounding of our users. Besides our members, our ally are of advance aswell set to account abundantly from alms their app to a association of added than 7.5 actor users.”
XING actively selects accomplice companies and requires them to both accommodated the Company’s austere standards with account to abstracts aloofness and abstruse and agreeable quality, and aswell to action advantageous business-related casework to the better amount of associates possible. Mr. Goldberg continues: “We are actual admiring about the ample acknowledgment we accept already accustomed from third-party developers adulatory to plan with us. The user acknowledgment we are now accepting will be in actuality key to developing the a lot of accordant apps for our members, calm with the actual best partners.” Companies absorbed in partnering with XING can apprentice added about the XING Partner Ecosystem at www.xing.com/net/opensocialpartner.
Here’s a arbitrary of the aboriginal new accomplice apps:
Social scheduling:
Doodle
Doodle is a arch online apparatus if it comes to acquisition the appropriate time for a accumulation of professionals to meet. It takes abroad the affliction of email volleys and agenda addendum and closes the gap amid claimed agenda systems. On XING, Doodle is added with amusing features, e.g. you can see affair acclamation in advance in accepted with your contacts.
Tungle
Tungle.me, a aboriginal in click-to-meet technology, is the simplest way for professionals to accomplish affairs happen. Tungle.me enhances a user’s contour by acceptance XING associates to appearance their availability and bound agenda a affair by proposing assorted times. When the affair is booked, everyone’s agenda is automatically updated. Tungle syncs with Outlook, Google Calendar, Apple iCal and Entourage for Mac.
Collaboration/project management/workspaces:
Huddle Workspaces
Huddle Workspaces offers XING associates defended workspaces to abreast allotment advice and plan calm with their connections. Users can abundance and allotment files, coact on abstracts and actualize clandestine discussions. With Huddle Workspaces, abstracts can be created and edited online, users may aswell column comments and appeal approvals. Tasks, whiteboards, buzz and web conferencing are accessible aloft synchronising with a free, abounding Huddle.net account.
MindMeister
MindMeister brings apperception mapping to the web, application its accessories for real-time accord to acquiesce absolutely all-around brainstorming sessions. Users can create, administer and allotment apperception maps online and acceptance them anytime, anywhere through the award-winning web interface. Mind maps are awful advantageous to begin and allotment ideas, administer meetings, anatomy abstracts and plan projects the simple way.
ZCOPE
ZCOPE is an simple to use activity administration apparatus for networked teams of all industries alive calm from limited locations. It follows the active adjustment and is focussed on the capital in managing projects. Using ZCOPE, teams can allotment version-controlled documents, acquaint via activity blogs, and coact on tasks.
Collaboration/web meetings:
spreed
spreed is a web-based band-aid for acclimation web meetings, online conferences and presentations in Europe and about the world. Using spreed, XING associates can authority free-of-cost web affairs and blast conferences, accord presentations, deliver documents, or artlessly accommodated online with attendees.
That means: they assets a affair room, allure participants, and present themselves and their account to the audience, abide on the Internet.
Sharing:
SlideShare
SlideShare allows XING associates to upload PowerPoint presentations, Word or PDF documents, allotment them with added members, and to acquisition able presentations on a advanced amount of topics. XING associates can use SlideShare to bury presentations or abstracts into their profile, and appearance off their expertise, product, or account to their network: yet addition way to get even added business leads.
Travel:
Dopplr: Where Next?
Dopplr is an online account for smarter travel. It helps you allotment your biking affairs abreast with accompany and colleagues. It spots co-incidences and helps you accomplish added of your trips. For example, it can acquaint you that three humans you apperceive will be in Tokyo if you are there next week. Dopplr’s Social Atlas helps you ascertain acceptable places to eat, break and analyze while traveling.
travelload
travelload helps common travelers adapt their trips, administer itineraries, and more. Create a alone avenue itinerary, and column it on your XING profile, or download capital cruise advice assimilate your smartphone or adaptable device, and crop it with you wherever you go.
News:
Deutsche Welle
Deutsche Welle is Germany's all-embracing anchorperson that produces television, radio and online agreeable in 30 languages. Its different mix of news, accomplishments advice and cultural highlights offers European insights to all-embracing issues to humans about the world. The "DW News app" offers XING associates the achievability to accommodate accepted account from Deutsche Welle into their profile. Every affiliate can acclimatize the settings to accommodated their needs. Besides selecting a language, it is aswell accessible to allegorize accountable headings in altered ways.
wallstreet:online
For the abundant XING associates in the Finance industry, the wallstreet:online app is the ideal accessory to a XING profile. wallstreet:online is the better and a lot of breath banking association in Germany. Users can actualize basic portfolios and watch lists, apprehend account and appearance abundant analyses and opinions. By bond banal data to the latest association postings, the wallstreet:online app puts abundant bazaar advice just a mouseclick away.
WELT ONLINE
With one of the better circulations in Germany and a ample ambit of columnist coverage, the online account aperture WELT ONLINE keeps XING readers abreast and in-the-know on a circadian base – all-encompassing accomplishments advantage and contemporary stories. Users can clarify account appropriately to their own interests and appearance these account items anon on their alpha page. They can aswell acquisition out what added humans are reading, and allotment angle on specific issues and accepted address with both the XING and WELT ONLINE communities.
Edutainment:
sueddeutsche.de – CareerCamp
XING users can analysis their career opportunities at the sueddeutsche.de CareerCamp by demography tests on a array of capacity such as etiquette, accepted ability or personality. Users can aswell see their baronial a allotment of all participants, or just their acquaintance network. The app aswell appearance account and links to absorbing and a lot of latest online autograph on sueddeutsche.de, the online aperture of the Süddeutsche Zeitung, Germany's better circadian above newspaper.
About XING:
XING is the arch European online business network. Over 7.5 actor associates use XING in 16 languages to do business, acquisition jobs, and accompany a career. XING helps associates get affiliated and break in blow with their contacts with customized networking solutions and services. Members are breath on XING because of the absolute amount generated, with XING Jobs, over 26 thousand specialized groups, and over 90 thousand abide networking contest a year, organized by associates for members.
XING AG went accessible in December 2006 as the aboriginal Web 2.0 aggregation to do so. A around-the-clock access in associates abstracts leads to accretion revenues and profits. XING AG is headquartered in Hamburg, Germany, and has bounded offices in Barcelona, Istanbul and Milan.
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/
XING AG - XING AG expands its management
Hamburg, July 24, 2009 – XING AG (ISIN DE000XNG888) is accretion its administration team. The Supervisory Board has appointed Dr. Helmut Becker to the Executive Board as of September 15, 2009. He shall accompany the Executive Board in the anew created position of Chief Marketing and Sales Officer, fusing calm the advertisement curve of business and sales at XING AG.
Dr. Becker a lot of afresh captivated the column of Senior Director of Advertising and Internet Marketing at eBay Deutschland, and as Managing Director of eBay Advertising AG. Prior to that, he was the managing administrator of the eBay accessory Shopping.com Deutschland, and Director of Strategy and Corporate Development at eBay. He completed his university studies in Hamburg and Cambridge, area he becoming a PhD.
“In hiring Helmut Becker, we’re abacus an aberrant administrator to our Executive Board. His acquaintance in marketing, advertising, and sales will advice drive the added development of XING. I’m actual blessed that he chose to access the claiming and accompany XING," explains Dr. Stefan Gross-Selbeck, CEO of XING AG.
About XING:
XING is the arch European online business network. Over 7.5 actor associates use XING in 16 languages to do business, acquisition jobs, and accompany a career. XING helps associates get affiliated and break in blow with their contacts with customized networking solutions and services. Members are breath on XING because of the absolute amount generated, with XING Jobs, over 26 thousand specialized groups, and over 90 thousand abide networking contest a year, organized by associates for members.
XING AG went accessible in December 2006 as the aboriginal Web 2.0 aggregation to do so. A around-the-clock access in associates abstracts leads to accretion revenues and profits. XING AG is headquartered in Hamburg, Germany, and has bounded offices in Barcelona, Istanbul, Milan, 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/
Dr. Becker a lot of afresh captivated the column of Senior Director of Advertising and Internet Marketing at eBay Deutschland, and as Managing Director of eBay Advertising AG. Prior to that, he was the managing administrator of the eBay accessory Shopping.com Deutschland, and Director of Strategy and Corporate Development at eBay. He completed his university studies in Hamburg and Cambridge, area he becoming a PhD.
“In hiring Helmut Becker, we’re abacus an aberrant administrator to our Executive Board. His acquaintance in marketing, advertising, and sales will advice drive the added development of XING. I’m actual blessed that he chose to access the claiming and accompany XING," explains Dr. Stefan Gross-Selbeck, CEO of XING AG.
About XING:
XING is the arch European online business network. Over 7.5 actor associates use XING in 16 languages to do business, acquisition jobs, and accompany a career. XING helps associates get affiliated and break in blow with their contacts with customized networking solutions and services. Members are breath on XING because of the absolute amount generated, with XING Jobs, over 26 thousand specialized groups, and over 90 thousand abide networking contest a year, organized by associates for members.
XING AG went accessible in December 2006 as the aboriginal Web 2.0 aggregation to do so. A around-the-clock access in associates abstracts leads to accretion revenues and profits. XING AG is headquartered in Hamburg, Germany, and has bounded offices in Barcelona, Istanbul, Milan, 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/
XING AG - XING AG invests in the bosom of the crisis, boosts midyear revenues by 35 percent
•Total revenues access by 35 percent to €21.54 actor
•41 percent college revenues from Premium Memberships
•Over 635,000 paying associates about the world
•21 percent advance for XING Jobs
•Key investments for new business models already fabricated in H1
Hamburg, August 13, 2009 – XING AG (ISIN: DE000XNG888) today appear absolute revenues of €21.54 for the aboriginal six months of 2009. This is an access of 35 percent over absolute revenues for H1/2008 (€15.91 million).
In the aboriginal six months of this banking year, the arch European business arrangement acquired over 900 thousand new members. At the alpha of August 2009, the XING associates abject exceeded 8 actor for the aboriginal time.
Alongside connected absolute associates growth, 85 thousand paying Premium Members were acquired in H1/2009. As of June 30, 2009, XING numbered 635 thousand Premium Members, an access of 35 percent over the antecedent year’s abstracts (H1/2008 470 thousand). Accordingly, the amount business articulation "Premium Memberships” generated 41 percent college revenues in H1/2009 (€17.86 million) than in H1/2008 (€12.64 million), active the Company’s ample addition in absolute revenues.
Revenues from job listings aswell added in H1/2009 to €2.23 million, a 21 percent addition over H1/2008 (€1.84 million). Despite an online job ad bazaar heavily hit by the bread-and-butter crisis, XING AG was able to sustainably addition revenues in this area, accepting added bazaar allotment in this additional key business segment.
Midyear EBITDA after-effects added hardly over those of the antecedent year, to €5.90 actor in H1/2009 from €5.76 in H1/2008. Furthermore, XING AG has invested heavily in its own programming and development assets with the aim of ablution new business models, articles and appearance even faster in the future, and accepting new sources of revenues.
These investments in new business segments and in acknowledged recruiting efforts for accelerating the acceleration of addition are reflected in accumulation after-effects of €2.18 actor for H1/2009, which are below those of the antecedent midyear after-effects (€2.95 million), as expected.
“In the aboriginal six months of 2009, we’ve invested heavily in developing new business models, and fabricated solid advance in alive appear our cardinal goals. In the additional bisected of the year, we’ll abide to focus on authoritative XING added ambrosial for our members, and aswell barrage new sources of revenues. We accept new functionalities abnormally for recruiters are already in the beta phase. In addition, we will abide to advance in the advance of associates abstracts in our European amount markets,” explained Dr. Stefan Gross-Selbeck, CEO of XING AG.
About XING:
XING is the arch European online business network. Over 8 actor associates use XING in 16 languages to do business, acquisition jobs, and accompany a career. XING helps associates get affiliated and break in blow with their contacts with customized networking solutions and services. Members are breath on XING because of the absolute amount generated, with XING Jobs, over 30 thousand specialized groups, and over 90 thousand abide networking contest a year, organized by associates for members.
Since the 2006 IPO, the XING AG allotment has accustomed a solid position for itself on the banal market, the aboriginal and to date alone Web 2.0 aggregation to do so. XING AG is headquartered in Hamburg, Germany, and has bounded offices in Barcelona, Istanbul and Milan.
XING. Powering Relationships.
Thorsten Vespermann
----------------------------
Director Corporate Communications
XING AG
Gaensemarkt 43
20354 Hamburg
Germany
+49 40-419131-763
press@xing.com
www.xing.com/profile/Thorsten_Vespermann/
•41 percent college revenues from Premium Memberships
•Over 635,000 paying associates about the world
•21 percent advance for XING Jobs
•Key investments for new business models already fabricated in H1
Hamburg, August 13, 2009 – XING AG (ISIN: DE000XNG888) today appear absolute revenues of €21.54 for the aboriginal six months of 2009. This is an access of 35 percent over absolute revenues for H1/2008 (€15.91 million).
In the aboriginal six months of this banking year, the arch European business arrangement acquired over 900 thousand new members. At the alpha of August 2009, the XING associates abject exceeded 8 actor for the aboriginal time.
Alongside connected absolute associates growth, 85 thousand paying Premium Members were acquired in H1/2009. As of June 30, 2009, XING numbered 635 thousand Premium Members, an access of 35 percent over the antecedent year’s abstracts (H1/2008 470 thousand). Accordingly, the amount business articulation "Premium Memberships” generated 41 percent college revenues in H1/2009 (€17.86 million) than in H1/2008 (€12.64 million), active the Company’s ample addition in absolute revenues.
Revenues from job listings aswell added in H1/2009 to €2.23 million, a 21 percent addition over H1/2008 (€1.84 million). Despite an online job ad bazaar heavily hit by the bread-and-butter crisis, XING AG was able to sustainably addition revenues in this area, accepting added bazaar allotment in this additional key business segment.
Midyear EBITDA after-effects added hardly over those of the antecedent year, to €5.90 actor in H1/2009 from €5.76 in H1/2008. Furthermore, XING AG has invested heavily in its own programming and development assets with the aim of ablution new business models, articles and appearance even faster in the future, and accepting new sources of revenues.
These investments in new business segments and in acknowledged recruiting efforts for accelerating the acceleration of addition are reflected in accumulation after-effects of €2.18 actor for H1/2009, which are below those of the antecedent midyear after-effects (€2.95 million), as expected.
“In the aboriginal six months of 2009, we’ve invested heavily in developing new business models, and fabricated solid advance in alive appear our cardinal goals. In the additional bisected of the year, we’ll abide to focus on authoritative XING added ambrosial for our members, and aswell barrage new sources of revenues. We accept new functionalities abnormally for recruiters are already in the beta phase. In addition, we will abide to advance in the advance of associates abstracts in our European amount markets,” explained Dr. Stefan Gross-Selbeck, CEO of XING AG.
About XING:
XING is the arch European online business network. Over 8 actor associates use XING in 16 languages to do business, acquisition jobs, and accompany a career. XING helps associates get affiliated and break in blow with their contacts with customized networking solutions and services. Members are breath on XING because of the absolute amount generated, with XING Jobs, over 30 thousand specialized groups, and over 90 thousand abide networking contest a year, organized by associates for members.
Since the 2006 IPO, the XING AG allotment has accustomed a solid position for itself on the banal market, the aboriginal and to date alone Web 2.0 aggregation to do so. XING AG is headquartered in Hamburg, Germany, and has bounded offices in Barcelona, Istanbul and Milan.
XING. Powering Relationships.
Thorsten Vespermann
----------------------------
Director Corporate Communications
XING AG
Gaensemarkt 43
20354 Hamburg
Germany
+49 40-419131-763
press@xing.com
www.xing.com/profile/Thorsten_Vespermann/
XING AG - XING AG: Dr. Helmut Becker assumes new column as Chief Commercial Officer
Hamburg, September 15, 2009 – Dr. Helmut Becker started his position today as the new Chief Commercial Officer (CCO) of the about listed XING AG (ISIN: DE000XNG888). This adjustment marks the accession of addition awful accomplished Internet administrator at the arch European online business network, and is set to angle the aggregation in acceptable account for the planned amplification of its business operations. Prior to demography up his new column at the company, Dr. Becker was Senior Director Advertising and Internet Marketing at eBay Deutschland and Managing Director at eBay Advertising AG. He has aswell captivated added chief authoritative positions as Managing Director of the eBay accessory Shopping.com Deutschland and Director Strategy and Corporate Development at eBay.
“The XING adventure so far has been a big success, and I am aflame at the anticipation of alive with my aggregation appear abounding added in the future. XING is blooming as a absolute aftereffect of the allowances our associates accretion from amplification of their own able network. And by continuously accretion added amount for our members, there is abounding befalling for us as a aggregation to accessible up new sources of revenue,” Dr. Becker commented.
About XING:
XING is the arch European online business network. Over 8 actor associates use XING in 16 languages to do business, acquisition jobs, and accompany a career. XING helps associates get affiliated and break in blow with their contacts with customized networking solutions and services. Members are breath on XING because of the absolute amount generated, with XING Jobs, over 30 thousand specialized groups, and over 90 thousand abide networking contest a year, organized by associates for members. Since the 2006 IPO, the XING AG allotment has accustomed a solid position for itself on the banal market, the aboriginal and to date alone Web 2.0 aggregation to do so. XING AG is headquartered in Hamburg, Germany, and has bounded offices based in its key cardinal advance markets.
XING. Powering Relationships.
Thorsten Vespermann
Director Corporate Communications
XING AG
Gaensemarkt 43
20354 Hamburg
Germany
+49 40-419131-763
press@xing.com
www.xing.com/profile/Thorsten_Vespermann/
“The XING adventure so far has been a big success, and I am aflame at the anticipation of alive with my aggregation appear abounding added in the future. XING is blooming as a absolute aftereffect of the allowances our associates accretion from amplification of their own able network. And by continuously accretion added amount for our members, there is abounding befalling for us as a aggregation to accessible up new sources of revenue,” Dr. Becker commented.
About XING:
XING is the arch European online business network. Over 8 actor associates use XING in 16 languages to do business, acquisition jobs, and accompany a career. XING helps associates get affiliated and break in blow with their contacts with customized networking solutions and services. Members are breath on XING because of the absolute amount generated, with XING Jobs, over 30 thousand specialized groups, and over 90 thousand abide networking contest a year, organized by associates for members. Since the 2006 IPO, the XING AG allotment has accustomed a solid position for itself on the banal market, the aboriginal and to date alone Web 2.0 aggregation to do so. XING AG is headquartered in Hamburg, Germany, and has bounded offices based in its key cardinal advance markets.
XING. Powering Relationships.
Thorsten Vespermann
Director Corporate Communications
XING AG
Gaensemarkt 43
20354 Hamburg
Germany
+49 40-419131-763
press@xing.com
www.xing.com/profile/Thorsten_Vespermann/
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