By BOB Goswami
December 01, 2011
World's largest professional network LinkedIn launched three local languages in Asia to boost usage of the social network. It introduced Bahasa Malaysia, Bahasa Indonesia and Korean languages in its continued expansion plans in the continent.
LinkedIn Managing Director and Vice President of APAC and Japan Arvind Rajan announced this today in a blog post.
He said the new three local languages will support better the growing number of professionals in the social network site. It will also precipitate a whole new generation of members locally in LinkedIn, enhancing experience of the community, added Rajan.
Currently there are more than 20 million members in LinkedIn from Asia-Pacific and Japan and the company aims of adding large numbers of members of the 55 million plus Facebook users in the three countries.
According to LinkedIn, there are more than 800,000 professionals in LinkedIn from Indonesia, about 300,000 from Korea and nearly 700,000 from Malaysia.
The three newly launched website for local languages are my.linkedin.com, in.linkedin.com and kr.linkedin.com. Members who are now using the website in English can switch to their own language settings from linkd.in/changelanguage.
Apart from English, LinkedIn is also available in French, Italian, German, Japanese, Portuguese, Romanian, Swedish, Turkish, Spanish and Russian.
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