Linkedin has in the presentation of the quarterly figures, announced that the site now around 135 million members. The growth would still continue: the business networking site, there would be an average of two members per second.
There would, in the last quarter, a total of approximately 15.4 million new members in LinkedIn reported. Also, the number of employees that the site works rose significantly: Linkedin took 282 employees, bringing the total to approximately 1800 employees grew. Although recent figures are missing was the Netherlands late last year at the top of the rankings, what percentage of the population with a Linkedin account.
The company behind the social networking site claims that it is still expanding. That would also be the reason for the net loss of 1.6 million dollars, that for the last quarter in the books was set. It is the first time that Linkedin losses since the fourth quarter of 2009. The company behind the site is since this year a publicly traded company.
LinkedIn was founded in 2003, and is intended as a networking site for, in particular employers and employees. The company needs Facebook more than for themselves: there are over 800 million profiles created.