LinkedIn, the world's largest professional social networking site, is a social network (SNS) for business customers. It was established in February 2002 and started in 2003. It was listed in the United States on May 20, 20 1 1, and its headquarters is located in Mountain View, California, USA.

The purpose of the website is to let registered users maintain the contacts they know and trust in their business dealings, commonly known as "contacts". Users can invite people they know to become people in the "network" circle. Now the number of users has reached 200 million, and a new member joins every second on average. On February 25th, 20 14, the simplified Chinese version of LinkedIn website was officially launched, and the Chinese name was announced as "LinkedIn". ?

: 2065438+On August 19, 2003, LinkedIn, a professional social network, announced the launch of university page service and entered the education market. LinkedIn is a new service, similar to the current enterprise page. The only difference is that it is aimed at academic institutions and helps them to target users such as students, alumni, teachers and parents.

This academic project of LinkedIn was launched on August 19, 2009. In the initial stage, there will be 200 universities around the world, including Insead, new york University, University of Michigan, Rochester Institute of Technology and University of Illinois. LinkedIn plans to attract more universities to join in the future.