100 Million Links

Professional networking site LinkedIn has crossed the 100 million membership mark in the Asia-Pacific region. With 37 million members, India is the second largest market for the site globally after the US. It has 23 million members in China and eight million users in Australia. Now, 22 per cent of LinkedIn's global member base of over 450 million comes from the APAC region. The company has doubled its user numbers in this region in just two years and has seen a strong growth in South-east Asia, too. LinkedIn, currently, has 18 million users in South-east Asia, with six million coming from Indonesia, four million from Philippines, three million from Malaysia and one million from Singapore. Tata Consultancy Services, Wipro and Infosys are among the top five companies on its site with a strong network of employees.