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Professional networking platform <keyword id="28120" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="linkedin" source="Orion">LinkedIn</keyword> on Wednesday said it has crossed 100 million members in India, a 56 per cent growth in its member base over the last three years in the country. India has solidified its position as the second largest market for Microsoft-owned LinkedIn globally. The largest share of members in India are from software &amp; IT, followed by manufacturing, corporate services (consulting, accounting and HR), finance, and education industries, the company informed. "Our 100 million member community in India is using the platform extensively for more than jobs now. They are over-indexing on networking, messaging, and learning more than any other region globally," said Ashutosh Gupta, India Country Manager, LinkedIn. "As we look to welcome the next 100 million professionals, we aim to be a true partner in the lives of professionals as India continues to build a skills-first labour market," he added. As jobs and career paths become increasingly non-linear, companies in India are adopting a skills-first approach to hiring with more than 50 per cent of recruiters on LinkedIn explicitly using skills data to fill their roles, which is higher than the global average of 45 per cent. In 2022 alone, professionals in India spent 4.6 million hours learning on the platform, which is nearly 2x the learning hours spent on LinkedIn in the US. "Despite tough macroeconomic conditions, learning in-demand skills will be critical for professionals to become more employable in any job market and reach their career goals in 2023," said the platform. This year's list of LinkedIn's top 10 most in-demand skills in India features management (1st spot), communication (4), and sales (10). Tech skills such as software development (2), SQL (3), and Java (5). Leadership (6) and analytical skills (8) also feature on the list as important soft skills needed across various job functions. SEE ALSO: <a target="_blank" class="c-link c-message_attachment__title_link" href="https://www.businessinsider.in/careers/news/top-10-high-demand-jobs-in-india-linkedin-report-for-2023/slidelist/97131086.cms">Top 10 high-demand jobs in India: LinkedIn report for 2023</a> <a target="_blank" class="c-link c-message_attachment__title_link" href="https://www.businessinsider.in/tech/mobile/news/oneplus-11-vs-iqoo-11-price-specs-and-features-compared/slidelist/97703167.cms">OnePlus 11 vs iQOO 11 – price, specs and features compared</a>

LinkedIn 100 million members milestone in India—making it the second largest market

<ul><li>India is the second biggest market for LinkedIn, which Microsoft bought over in 2016 for $26.2 billion.</li><li>The number of users has gone up by 25% in the last 18 months at a time when unemployment in the country rose.</li><li>LinkedIn is also looking to beef up its team in India as it starts rolling out more products that are born in Bengaluru but get adopted in other countries.</li></ul>LinkedIn now has 62 million users in India⁠— nearly 10% of its total member base globally come from the subcontinent as the world’s largest professional networking platform completes 10 years in the country. It took the company, now owned by Microsoft, 3 years to go from 30 million in 2015 to 50 million in June 2018 but in the last 18 months, the number of users has gone up about 25%. Thrilled but composed, Ashutosh Gupta, who was elevated as the country head for LinkedIn India, explained to Business Insider what led to this rise in people getting on board. “We tend to send, the first few updates on your feed will be very job focussed. So that you get what you want and you are more engaged. Another dimension is, the brand campaign that we did called #InItTogether. It also brought about the diversity of the jobs that we have on the platform,” Gupta said. 
 
 
 
 
 
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 Even the demography of the members on the platform, as put out by napoleoncat.com, reflects the spike in job seekers in India. Nearly 90% of the members are under the age of 34, compared to Facebook where the age group of 18 to 34 makes up for about 70% of the user base. There are half a million jobs listed on the platform and as the company statement put it, 2 professionals are joining the platform every second. The company is also targeting small business owners, telling them that the network can help them find new opportunities. 
 
 
 
 
 
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 It also helped that the company realised that the mobile connectivity in India is patchy at best. Therefore, the launch of LinkedIn Lite, which loads faster even when data speeds are slower, was also a big factor for the rise in user engagement, which has gone up by 27% in the last one year. LinkedIn is increasing research and development in India LinkedIn Lite was the company’s first product made outside of its Mountainview headquarters. It was developed by the team in India that is familiar with the problems of a developing economy where the telecom infrastructure is still evolving. Now, it is in use in over 60 countries. But with 62 million users, India is now the second largest market for the networking platform that was <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/enterprise/microsoft-buys-linkedin-for-26-2-billion/articleshow/52730444.cms" data-type="tilCustomLink" target="_blank">bought over by Microsoft for $26.2 billion in 2016</a>. India is also the fastest-growing market for LinkedIn. Therefore, it has become more important for the American corporation than ever before. <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/help/linkedin/answer/98189/linkedin-events-overview?lang=en" data-type="tilCustomLink" target="_blank">LinkedIn Events</a>, which was born out of India, is the other product born out of the India unit. The feature allows members to organise an event where other members can be invited for a face-to-face interaction. A bit like <a href="https://www.meetup.com/" data-type="tilCustomLink" target="_blank">Meetup</a>. “The R&amp;D team in Bengaluru has global mandates too,” Gupta said. As LinkedIn grows its India business and develops new products, there will be more jobs AT LinkedIn too But Ashutosh stopped short of putting a number to it. So keep an eye out! SEE ALSO: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/thelife/personalities/news/here-is-the-linkedin-top-voices-2019-india-list/articleshow/72357073.cms" data-type="tilCustomLink" target="_blank">From Kiran Bedi to Divya Gokulnath -- these are the top voices of india in 2019 on Linkedin</a>

LinkedIn added 12 million Indian subscribers in the last 18 months as people got hungry for jobs

<table class="image-container float_right" width="200"><tr><td><div class="image"></div><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/democonference/4994503718/sizes/l/in/photostream/">Flickr/The DEMO Conference</a></td></tr></table><keyword id="28120" type="CITY" weightage="60" keywordseo="Linkedin">LinkedIn</keyword>'s performance since its IPO has made investors very happy. 
Its shares are trading at nearly 3X its opening day price of $45, and has almost a $13 billion market cap.
But in order to keep Wall Street on its side, LinkedIn needs to make a major acquisition sooner than later, <a href="http://www.pehub.com/182562/why-linkedins-big-deal-may-be-coming-soon-2/?utm_source=dlvr.it&amp;utm_medium=twitter">Connie Loizos of peHUB reports</a>. 
Even though LinkedIn's growth was incredible between March 2011 and September 2012, with its sales growing across all of its revenue streams (premium subscriptions, <keyword id="6359973" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="recruitment">recruitment</keyword>, and advertising), it needs to look for external growth opportunities in order to maintain that pace.
But analysts have mixed opinions for what LinkedIn should do next. 
Rick Summer, a senior equity analyst at Morningstar, told Loizos that he sees a day where LinkedIn looks "more like a <keyword id="6361043" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="60" keywordseo="Software">software</keyword> company, managing job candidates from their sourcing to managing the candidate inside the walls of a company."
With that in mind, Summer says that SilkRoad, a 10-year-old employee management software company, could be a good acquisition target.
Other analysts say LinkedIn should also consider acquiring these companies: 
<ul>
<li><keyword id="131455" type="ENTERTAINMENT" weightage="60" keywordseo="monster">Monster</keyword>.com, an employment website</li>
<li>Chinese recruitment site ChinaHR</li>
<li>Viadeo, the world's second largest social network for professionals</li>
<li>Question and answer site Quora</li>
<li>DemandBase, a B2B marketing software company</li>
<li>Business advertising startup Bizo</li>
</ul>

LinkedIn Is Perfectly Poised To Make A Huge Acquisition

Professional networking platform <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/careers/news/how-to-maximize-your-linkedin-presence-and-land-a-high-paying-job-at-the-professional-networking-company/articleshow/87588993.cms" data-type="tilCustomLink">LinkedIn</a> on Thursday unveiled a user interface in Hindi, with the goal to support 600 million Hindi language speakers globally. With this launch, <keyword id="28120" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="linkedin" source="Orion">LinkedIn</keyword> aims to break down language barriers, providing greater access to professional and networking opportunities to Hindi speakers in India and around the world. With the launch of Hindi, LinkedIn now supports 25 languages globally. "We have witnessed high engagement and member growth in the last year, and it is at this exciting inflection point that we are strengthening our vision to create economic opportunity for 'every' member of the workforce, and taking down language barriers for Hindi speakers across the world," Ashutosh Gupta, India Country Manager, LinkedIn said in a statement. Starting Thursday, as part of the Phase 1 roll-out of LinkedIn in Hindi, members will be able to access their feed, profile, jobs, messaging, and create content in Hindi on desktop, and on their Android and iOS phones. As the next step, LinkedIn will work towards widening the range of job opportunities available for Hindi speaking professionals across industries, including more banking, and government jobs. The platform will also continue to add more Hindi publishers and creators in the coming weeks to boost member engagement and conversations in Hindi. Smartphone users will need to select Hindi as their preferred device language under phone settings to view the LinkedIn mobile application in Hindi. For members who are already using Hindi as their preferred language on their smartphones, the LinkedIn experience will automatically be available in Hindi. On desktop, members will need to click on the 'Me' icon at the top of their LinkedIn homepage and select 'Settings and Privacy'. Members then need to click on 'Account Preferences' on the left, select 'Site Preferences', click 'Change' next to 'Language', and select 'Hindi' from the drop down list. India is a core market for growth at LinkedIn and the second largest market in terms of members after the US, accounting for 82 million members as part of a global community of 800 million members. India's member base has grown by 20+ million in the past three years (15 per cent year-over-year growth) and it has witnessed a spike in engagement and conversations on the platform since the pandemic, tye company claims.

LinkedIn is now available in Hindi

<keyword id="28120" type="CITY" weightage="60" keywordseo="Linkedin">LinkedIn</keyword> just reached a huge milestone. 
It now has more than 200 million members, with nearly two new users signing up every second, LinkedIn SVP of Product Deep Nashir announced on the company blog.
LinkedIn hit 100 million members back in March 2011, and has added more than 13 million new members since its last announcement in November 2012. 
If LinkedIn were a country, it would have the 5th largest population in the world. <keyword id="6354576" type="CITY" weightage="60" keywordseo="Facebook">Facebook</keyword>, on the other hand, would have the <a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/revealed-the-third-largest-country-in-the-world--facebook-hits-one-billion-users-8197597.html">third largest population in the world</a>. 
Another fun fact: Virgin Group founder Richard Branson is the most followed person on LinkedIn, beating out President Barack Obama.
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If LinkedIn Were A Country, It Would Have The 5th Largest Population In The World

<ul><li>The hedge fund billionaire clarified his <a href="https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/ray-dalio-wuhan-coronavirus-exaggerated-effect-markets-recovery-2020-2-1028892444" target="_blank" rel="noopener">comments regarding the "exaggerated" impact</a> he's seen the Wuhan coronavirus have on financial markets in a LinkedIn <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/posts/raydalio_clarification-it-was-reported-that-i-said-activity-6633399853529485312-syRG/">post</a> Wednesday.</li><li>The impact of coronavirus will be temporary, Dalio said, and the market sell-off did not reflect that.</li><li>Coronavirus has infected 45,000 and killed 1,100, rocking financial markets across asset classes and regions.</li><li><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/international?r=US&amp;IR=T?utm_source=markets&amp;utm_medium=ingest" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories</a>.</li></ul> Ray Dalio clarified in a <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/posts/raydalio_clarification-it-was-reported-that-i-said-activity-6633399853529485312-syRG/">LinkedIn post</a> that he believes coronavirus could have a substantial impact in the near-term, but that the market sell-off did not reflect the temporary nature of the outbreak. The post followed up comments Dalio made <a href="https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/ray-dalio-wuhan-coronavirus-exaggerated-effect-markets-recovery-2020-2-1028892444">Tuesday</a> at a conference in Abu Dhabi that the coronavirus "probably had a bit of an exaggerated effect on the pricing of assets because of the temporary nature of that." Dalio, who runs Bridgewater Associates - the largest hedge fund in the world - corrected what he meant by those comments in his post."I think the most likely outcome is that this virus will be a larger version of SARS that will have a significant temporary effect but won't have a big long term influence, so the downward market price moves related to it are probably becoming exaggerated," he said. At the height of investor fear around the Wuhan coronavirus, markets across <a href="https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/stocks-coronavirus-outbreak-whacked-hit-selloff-sp500-carnival-starbucks-2020-2-1028883005">asset</a> <a href="https://markets.businessinsider.com/commodities/news/oil-prices-coronavirus-slip-year-low-china-demand-falls-20-2020-2-1028868536">classes</a> and <a href="https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/chinese-stocks-plunge-wuhan-coronavirus-racks-up-infections-deaths-2020-2-1028866955">countries</a> sold off. US equities have mostly <a href="https://www.insider.com/us-stock-indices-immune-coronavirus-chinese-markets-dow-sp-nasdaq-2020-2">recovered</a>, but other markets such as <a href="https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/oil-contango-warning-signal-oversupply-worry-coronavirus-brent-crude-2020-2-1028894129">oil</a> and copper remain in the lurch. Coronavirus has <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/china-virus-everything-we-know-deadly-2019-ncov-wuhan-spread-2020-1">infected 45,000 and killed 1,100</a> in its spread to more than 20 countries.The economic effects are already apparent: US companies including <a href="https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/coronavirus-outbreak-stock-market-impact-tesla-apple-nike-starbucks-disney-2020-2-1028882739?utm_source=markets&amp;utm_medium=ingest#starbucks5">Apple, Disney, and Starbucks</a> shuttered their operations in the region while Chinese manufacturing and retail have seen disruptions as well. Multiple economists have warned the virus could <a href="https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/wuhan-virus-could-slash-china-economic-growth-sp-says-2020-1-1028842611?utm_source=markets&amp;utm_medium=ingest">undermine growth</a> in China, the world's second-largest economy. In his Tuesday talk, Dalio pointed to wealth and political inequalities as trends he finds concerning for the global economy.

Ray Dalio clarifies his previous comments that the market impact of coronavirus has been 'exaggerated'

<div class="KonaFilter image-container float_right" style="width:400px"><div class="image">BI Intelligence</div></div>Social media transcends geography, and the sheer scale and diversity of audiences on the sites makes them tremendously important. 
In a <a href="https://intelligence.businessinsider.com/social-media-census-2013-10?utm_source=House&amp;utm_medium=Edit&amp;utm_term=S-BGGST-NETWORKS-2&amp;utm_content=link&amp;utm_campaign=BIIMobile" onclick="this.href = this.href + '-' + window.location.search.substr(1).replace(/\&amp;|\=/g, '-');">recent report from BI Intelligence</a>, we compare the world's largest social networks in two ways. <a href="https://intelligence.businessinsider.com/social-media-census-2013-10?utm_source=House&amp;utm_medium=Edit&amp;utm_term=S-BGGST-NETWORKS-2&amp;utm_content=link&amp;utm_campaign=BIIMobile" onclick="this.href = this.href + '-' + window.location.search.substr(1).replace(/\&amp;|\=/g, '-');">First, we evaluate the biggest properties side-by-side in terms of total audience size. Then we analyze the markets where each has the most growth potential, and their demographics in terms of country-of-origin.</a>
Here are some of the biggest surprises: 
<ul>
<li><a href="https://intelligence.businessinsider.com/social-media-census-2013-10?utm_source=House&amp;utm_medium=Edit&amp;utm_term=S-BGGST-NETWORKS-2&amp;utm_content=link&amp;utm_campaign=BIIMobile" onclick="this.href = this.href + '-' + window.location.search.substr(1).replace(/\&amp;|\=/g, '-');">YouTube ranks close behind Facebook</a> for number of monthly active users (MAUs), for second-place worldwide.</li>
<li><a href="https://intelligence.businessinsider.com/social-media-census-2013-10?utm_source=House&amp;utm_medium=Edit&amp;utm_term=S-BGGST-NETWORKS-2&amp;utm_content=link&amp;utm_campaign=BIIMobile" onclick="this.href = this.href + '-' + window.location.search.substr(1).replace(/\&amp;|\=/g, '-');">China's Qzone is the third largest social network in the world.</a></li>
<li><a href="https://intelligence.businessinsider.com/social-media-census-2013-10?utm_source=House&amp;utm_medium=Edit&amp;utm_term=S-BGGST-NETWORKS-2&amp;utm_content=link&amp;utm_campaign=BIIMobile" onclick="this.href = this.href + '-' + window.location.search.substr(1).replace(/\&amp;|\=/g, '-');">Three of the world's top 10 social properties are messaging platforms:</a> WhatsApp, LINE, and WeChat.</li>
<li><a href="https://intelligence.businessinsider.com/social-media-census-2013-10?utm_source=House&amp;utm_medium=Edit&amp;utm_term=S-BGGST-NETWORKS-2&amp;utm_content=link&amp;utm_campaign=BIIMobile" onclick="this.href = this.href + '-' + window.location.search.substr(1).replace(/\&amp;|\=/g, '-');">Nearly 90% of Facebook users reside outside the U.S.</a></li>
<li>About one-quarter of LinkedIn's users are in India. In fact, <a href="https://intelligence.businessinsider.com/social-media-census-2013-10?utm_source=House&amp;utm_medium=Edit&amp;utm_term=S-BGGST-NETWORKS-2&amp;utm_content=link&amp;utm_campaign=BIIMobile" onclick="this.href = this.href + '-' + window.location.search.substr(1).replace(/\&amp;|\=/g, '-');">there are more Indians than Americans on LinkedIn and Google+.</a></li>
<li><a href="https://intelligence.businessinsider.com/social-media-census-2013-10?utm_source=House&amp;utm_medium=Edit&amp;utm_term=S-BGGST-NETWORKS-2&amp;utm_content=link&amp;utm_campaign=BIIMobile" onclick="this.href = this.href + '-' + window.location.search.substr(1).replace(/\&amp;|\=/g, '-');">Major social networks that are officially blocked in China still have many millions of Chinese active users</a> who use various stratagems to access these services. Google+ has 100 million users in China, Twitter has 80 million, and YouTube has 60 million.</li>
<li>Asia-Pacific overall has more active social media users than any region, and several Southeast Asian markets are off the charts when it comes to mobile social media usage. <a href="https://intelligence.businessinsider.com/social-media-census-2013-10?utm_source=House&amp;utm_medium=Edit&amp;utm_term=S-BGGST-NETWORKS-2&amp;utm_content=link&amp;utm_campaign=BIIMobile" onclick="this.href = this.href + '-' + window.location.search.substr(1).replace(/\&amp;|\=/g, '-');">Eighty-two percent of Thai smartphone owners access social media daily on their phones.</a></li>
</ul>
<a href="https://intelligence.businessinsider.com/social-media-census-2013-10?utm_source=House&amp;utm_medium=Edit&amp;utm_term=S-BGGST-NETWORKS-2&amp;utm_content=link&amp;utm_campaign=BIIMobile" onclick="this.href = this.href + '-' + window.location.search.substr(1).replace(/\&amp;|\=/g, '-');">Access The Full Report And All Our Social Media Data By Signing Up For A Free Trial Today&gt;&gt;</a>
<a href="https://intelligence.businessinsider.com/social-media-census-2013-10?utm_source=House&amp;utm_medium=Edit&amp;utm_term=S-BGGST-NETWORKS-2&amp;utm_content=link&amp;utm_campaign=BIIMobile" onclick="this.href = this.href + '-' + window.location.search.substr(1).replace(/\&amp;|\=/g, '-');">In full, the report:</a>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://intelligence.businessinsider.com/social-media-census-2013-10?utm_source=House&amp;utm_medium=Edit&amp;utm_term=S-BGGST-NETWORKS-2&amp;utm_content=link&amp;utm_campaign=BIIMobile" onclick="this.href = this.href + '-' + window.location.search.substr(1).replace(/\&amp;|\=/g, '-');">Provides a census comparing social networks to one another in active audience size</a></li>
<li><a href="https://intelligence.businessinsider.com/social-media-census-2013-10?utm_source=House&amp;utm_medium=Edit&amp;utm_term=S-BGGST-NETWORKS-2&amp;utm_content=link&amp;utm_campaign=BIIMobile" onclick="this.href = this.href + '-' + window.location.search.substr(1).replace(/\&amp;|\=/g, '-');">Examines the nuances of how each of the largest social networks shape up on a global level and where their audiences are coming from</a></li>
<li><a href="https://intelligence.businessinsider.com/social-media-census-2013-10?utm_source=House&amp;utm_medium=Edit&amp;utm_term=S-BGGST-NETWORKS-2&amp;utm_content=link&amp;utm_campaign=BIIMobile" onclick="this.href = this.href + '-' + window.location.search.substr(1).replace(/\&amp;|\=/g, '-');">Posits where the major social networks might next build their audience</a></li>
<li><a href="https://intelligence.businessinsider.com/social-media-census-2013-10?utm_source=House&amp;utm_medium=Edit&amp;utm_term=S-BGGST-NETWORKS-2&amp;utm_content=link&amp;utm_campaign=BIIMobile" onclick="this.href = this.href + '-' + window.location.search.substr(1).replace(/\&amp;|\=/g, '-');">Takes a regional look at how social media usage has developed in the biggest markets, and how behavior is shifting</a></li>
<li><a href="https://intelligence.businessinsider.com/social-media-census-2013-10?utm_source=House&amp;utm_medium=Edit&amp;utm_term=S-BGGST-NETWORKS-2&amp;utm_content=link&amp;utm_campaign=BIIMobile" onclick="this.href = this.href + '-' + window.location.search.substr(1).replace(/\&amp;|\=/g, '-');">Zooms back out to take a broad look at where the biggest social audiences reside</a></li>
</ul>

The Surprising Facts About The Biggest Social Media Audiences Around The World

<a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/Jeff-Weiner-alongside-Indian-Linkedin-team-announces-three-new-offerings-for-India/articleshow/54289587.cms">LinkedIn recently unveiled three new products for the Indian market. </a>While it is encouraging to see that <keyword id="28120" type="CITY" weightage="100" keywordseo="Linkedin">LinkedIn</keyword> currently has more than 37 million members in India making it the second-largest and one of the fast-growing markets for the company globally, it is more exciting to see that the country hosts the company’s only other R&amp;D center outside of the U.S. 
 <keyword id="299066" type="PERSON" weightage="100" keywordseo="Jeff-Weiner">Jeff Weiner</keyword>, CEO &amp; Co-Founder, LinkedIn, landed in <keyword id="6354321" type="CITY" weightage="60" keywordseo="Bengaluru">Bengaluru</keyword>, India’s <keyword id="6357722" type="COMPANY" weightage="60" keywordseo="silicon-valley">silicon valley</keyword> yesterday and said that after meeting his Indian employees, he wanted to take them back to the actual Silicon Valley with him, which wouldn’t have been the case some years back. 
 
Jeff thinks that <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/Byju-opens-up-about-meeting-Chan-Zuckerberg-initiative-international-plans-and-how-he-chooses-teachers-for-the-app-/articleshow/54250709.cms">the Indian startup ecosystem is thriving</a>, ’I have been closely been following the people, stories about the <keyword id="6362513" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="20" keywordseo="Startups">startups</keyword> here. To see the high energy here is remarkable. The government deserves a lot of credit for creating the right environment which is attracting investment from all over the world to encourage the spirit of entrepreneurship.’ 
 Both Jeff and <keyword id="323918" type="PERSON" weightage="100" keywordseo="Akshay-Kothari">Akshay Kothari</keyword>, India Manger &amp; product head <keyword id="278010" type="COMPANY" weightage="20" keywordseo="LinkedIn-India">Linkedin India</keyword> feel that the Indian government has had a huge role to play in this change of dynamics. With Startup India and Digital India, people are getting the right kind of opportunities with the help of technology. With these three new initiatives, they wish to accelerate growth for the human resources in India. 
 
<a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/LinkedIn-launches-three-new-features-/articleshow/54293727.cms">ALSO READ: LinkedIn wants you to get your dream job, no matter what your circumstances are</a> 
 
Akshay is a man whom Jeff hand-picked after acquiring his startup Pulse, in 2013. Pulse, which was a mobile application that enabled users to create personalized news feeds, now is integrated into LinkedIn. While Akshay, an Indian got an immense exposure in the Valley, many start-ups have not scaled to such heights. 
 
‘I miss Silicon Valley. That was my home for almost a decade. While things in India are picking up for startups, they’re still behind compared to the US in terms of administrative issues. I remember starting out my company, Pulse with all incorporation, tax-filing etc. done within 24 hours in the valley. I never had to worry about such issues afterward. Startups in India cannot say the same,” says Akshay. 
“While things have become faster and easier for Indian startups, it is important to make everything smoother to match up to developed countries,” he adds, when asked about what he misses the most about silicon valley. 
 
So while LinkedIn tries to help start-ups get the right talent, the Indian government still might have to get them to the right platform, which is in the making.

LinkedIn’s Co-Founder Jeff Weiner and India Head, Akshay
Kothari see quality talent sprouting in the country

India is expected to overtake the US as the second-largest <keyword id="390059" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="smartphone-market">smartphone market</keyword> next year with robust annual growth, says a Morgan Stanley research report. According to the report on global technology and telecom, the country's <keyword id="28168" type="TECHNOLOGY" weightage="20" keywordseo="Smartphone">smartphone</keyword> market will grow at a compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) of 23 per cent through 2018 and would account for 30 per cent of the global growth during the period. 

	"We expect India to overtake the US next year as the second-largest smartphone market by units. India will grow nearly five times faster than the world's largest smartphone market China, where growth has decelerated," the report said.
 

	It added, "We estimate a 23 per cent CAGR in units in India, compared with 5 per cent over the same period in China. By 2018, we estimate 192 million smartphones will be shipped to India, or 11 per cent of global units."
 

	Morgan Stanley said there are only 225 million smartphone subscribers in the country, accounting for 18 per cent of the total population.
 

	"The improvement in demographics, as measured by declining age dependency, has been one of the most important factors supporting higher potential growth in India... We expect consumption to maintain a relatively high growth rate, driven by an increase in per-capita income growth and an emerging middle class," it noted.
 

	On consumption of data, the report said the country is on the cusp of significant growth in data traffic driven by rising data users as well as growing data usage per user.
 

	"We expect India's internet penetration to reach 50 per cent by 2018, up from 26 per cent last year, driven by rising smartphone availability and affordability, online content and changing user behavior," it said.
 The global consultancy estimates <keyword id="1948108" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="4G-smartphones">4G smartphones</keyword> will account for 75 per cent of 170 million shipments by the next year, which currently has less than 1 per cent subscriber penetration in the country. The report, which is based on 2,600 <keyword id="3334600" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="urban-smartphone-buyers">urban smartphone buyers</keyword>, said the respondents paid an average of Rs 8,500 for their smartphones and plan to spend 40 per cent more on their next phone.

India to become second largest smartphone market by 2017: Morgan Stanley

We're officially in the second largest bull market since WWII.The S&amp;P 500 Index's current bull market became the second best performing in the modern economic era on Monday. Stocks have climbed by about 270% <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/obama-makes-one-of-greatest-stock-market-calls-ever-2017-3">from their March 2009 low</a> over the last eight years, according to data from <a href="https://lplresearch.com/2017/09/19/welcome-to-the-second-largest-bull-market-since-wwii/">LPL Financial</a>.The current bull market has eclipsed the 267% gain seen from June 1949 to August 1956. But the bull market from October 1990 to March 2000 remains in the top spot."The logical question we continue to receive is: how much further can it go? We have an old bull market and an old expansion. When will the music stop?" wrote Ryan Detrick, Senior Market Strategist for LPL Financial, in <a href="https://lplresearch.com/2017/09/19/welcome-to-the-second-largest-bull-market-since-wwii/">commentary</a>."The current bull market is officially 101 months old, which might sound old (and it is), but remember that bull markets don't die of old age, they die of excesses."<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image">LPL Financial</div></div></div> <div class="margin-top"> <h3>NOW WATCH: <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-transformation-of-whole-foods-puts-entire-grocery-industry-on-notice-2017-8">Amazon's transformation of Whole Foods puts the entire grocery industry on notice</a></h3> <div> </div> </div>

We're officially in the second largest bull market since WWII

<div class="KonaFilter image-container float_right" style="width:400px"><div class="image">BI Intelligence</div></div>From the acquisition of WhatsApp by Facebook, to the growing prominence of anonymous messaging apps like Whisper and Secret, mobile-social messaging is having a tech moment.
Why? Because these apps are incredibly popular. Last year, three of the world's top 10 social properties were messaging platforms: WhatsApp, LINE, and WeChat.
<a href="https://intelligence.businessinsider.com/social-media-census-2013-10?utm_source=House&amp;utm_medium=Edit&amp;utm_term=S-BGGST-NETWORKS-3&amp;utm_content=link&amp;utm_campaign=BIIMobile" onclick="this.href = this.href + '-' + window.location.search.substr(1).replace(/\&amp;|\=/g, '-');">In a recent report from BI Intelligence, we take a global snapshot of social networks and find a lot of other surprises as well.</a> For example, YouTube is close behind Facebook for monthly active users (MAUs), or in second-place worldwide. And China's Qzone is the third largest social property in the world in terms of audience size.
In the report, BI Intelligence compares the world's largest social networks in two ways. <a href="https://intelligence.businessinsider.com/social-media-census-2013-10?utm_source=House&amp;utm_medium=Edit&amp;utm_term=S-BGGST-NETWORKS-3&amp;utm_content=link&amp;utm_campaign=BIIMobile" onclick="this.href = this.href + '-' + window.location.search.substr(1).replace(/\&amp;|\=/g, '-');">First, we evaluate the biggest properties side-by-side in terms of total audience size. Then we analyze the markets where each has the most growth potential, and their demographics in terms of country-of-origin.</a>
<a href="https://intelligence.businessinsider.com/social-media-census-2013-10?utm_source=House&amp;utm_medium=Edit&amp;utm_term=S-BGGST-NETWORKS-3&amp;utm_content=link&amp;utm_campaign=BIIMobile">Access The Full Report And All Our Social Media Data By Signing Up For A Free Trial Today&gt;&gt;</a>
Here are some of the other big surprises: 
<ul>
<li><a href="https://intelligence.businessinsider.com/social-media-census-2013-10?utm_source=House&amp;utm_medium=Edit&amp;utm_term=S-BGGST-NETWORKS-3&amp;utm_content=link&amp;utm_campaign=BIIMobile" onclick="this.href = this.href + '-' + window.location.search.substr(1).replace(/\&amp;|\=/g, '-');">Nearly 90% of Facebook users reside outside the U.S.</a></li>
<li><a href="https://intelligence.businessinsider.com/social-media-census-2013-10?utm_source=House&amp;utm_medium=Edit&amp;utm_term=S-BGGST-NETWORKS-3&amp;utm_content=link&amp;utm_campaign=BIIMobile" onclick="this.href = this.href + '-' + window.location.search.substr(1).replace(/\&amp;|\=/g, '-');">Thirty percent of Facebook's users reside in Asia.</a></li>
<li>About one-quarter of LinkedIn's users are in India. In fact, <a href="https://intelligence.businessinsider.com/social-media-census-2013-10?utm_source=House&amp;utm_medium=Edit&amp;utm_term=S-BGGST-NETWORKS-3&amp;utm_content=link&amp;utm_campaign=BIIMobile" onclick="this.href = this.href + '-' + window.location.search.substr(1).replace(/\&amp;|\=/g, '-');">there are more Indians than Americans on LinkedIn and Google+.</a></li>
<li><a href="https://intelligence.businessinsider.com/social-media-census-2013-10?utm_source=House&amp;utm_medium=Edit&amp;utm_term=S-BGGST-NETWORKS-3&amp;utm_content=link&amp;utm_campaign=BIIMobile" onclick="this.href = this.href + '-' + window.location.search.substr(1).replace(/\&amp;|\=/g, '-');">Major social networks that are officially blocked in China still have many millions of Chinese active users</a> who use various stratagems to access these services. Google+ has 100 million users in China, Twitter has 80 million, and YouTube has 60 million.</li>
<li>Asia-Pacific overall has more active social media users than any region, and several Southeast Asian markets are off the charts when it comes to mobile social media usage. <a href="https://intelligence.businessinsider.com/social-media-census-2013-10?utm_source=House&amp;utm_medium=Edit&amp;utm_term=S-BGGST-NETWORKS-3&amp;utm_content=link&amp;utm_campaign=BIIMobile" onclick="this.href = this.href + '-' + window.location.search.substr(1).replace(/\&amp;|\=/g, '-');">Eighty-two percent of Thai smartphone owners access social media daily on their phones.</a></li>
</ul>
<a href="https://intelligence.businessinsider.com/social-media-census-2013-10?utm_source=House&amp;utm_medium=Edit&amp;utm_term=S-BGGST-NETWORKS-3&amp;utm_content=link&amp;utm_campaign=BIIMobile" onclick="this.href = this.href + '-' + window.location.search.substr(1).replace(/\&amp;|\=/g, '-');">In full, the report:</a>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://intelligence.businessinsider.com/social-media-census-2013-10?utm_source=House&amp;utm_medium=Edit&amp;utm_term=S-BGGST-NETWORKS-3&amp;utm_content=link&amp;utm_campaign=BIIMobile" onclick="this.href = this.href + '-' + window.location.search.substr(1).replace(/\&amp;|\=/g, '-');">Provides a census comparing social networks to one another in active audience size</a></li>
<li><a href="https://intelligence.businessinsider.com/social-media-census-2013-10?utm_source=House&amp;utm_medium=Edit&amp;utm_term=S-BGGST-NETWORKS-3&amp;utm_content=link&amp;utm_campaign=BIIMobile" onclick="this.href = this.href + '-' + window.location.search.substr(1).replace(/\&amp;|\=/g, '-');">Examines the nuances of how each of the largest social networks shape up on a global level and where their audiences are coming from</a></li>
<li><a href="https://intelligence.businessinsider.com/social-media-census-2013-10?utm_source=House&amp;utm_medium=Edit&amp;utm_term=S-BGGST-NETWORKS-3&amp;utm_content=link&amp;utm_campaign=BIIMobile" onclick="this.href = this.href + '-' + window.location.search.substr(1).replace(/\&amp;|\=/g, '-');">Posits where the major social networks might next build their audience</a></li>
<li><a href="https://intelligence.businessinsider.com/social-media-census-2013-10?utm_source=House&amp;utm_medium=Edit&amp;utm_term=S-BGGST-NETWORKS-3&amp;utm_content=link&amp;utm_campaign=BIIMobile" onclick="this.href = this.href + '-' + window.location.search.substr(1).replace(/\&amp;|\=/g, '-');">Takes a regional look at how social media usage has developed in the biggest markets, and how behavior is shifting</a></li>
<li><a href="https://intelligence.businessinsider.com/social-media-census-2013-10?utm_source=House&amp;utm_medium=Edit&amp;utm_term=S-BGGST-NETWORKS-3&amp;utm_content=link&amp;utm_campaign=BIIMobile" onclick="this.href = this.href + '-' + window.location.search.substr(1).replace(/\&amp;|\=/g, '-');">Zooms back out to take a broad look at where the biggest social audiences reside</a></li>
</ul>
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<div class="image-container float_right" style="width:400px"><div class="image"></div><a href="http://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20130225195955-71744402-taking-on-a-turnaround">LinkedIn/HP</a>HP CEO Meg Whitman</div>HP today became the first company on <keyword id="28120" type="CITY" weightage="60" keywordseo="Linkedin">LinkedIn</keyword> to get 1 million followers, <a href="http://marketing.linkedin.com/blog/what-hps-1-million-linkedin-followers-means-for-marketers">LinkedIn announced</a> today.
"Our 1 million followers are connected to over 43 million people on LinkedIn, roughly one-quarter of the entire LinkedIn population,” says Natalie Malaszenko, vice president of digital marketing for HP.
HP grew its LinkedIn followers in a couple of ways. For instance, CEO Meg Whitman has just begun to write for LinkedIn's "Influencers" series, where big names write columns exclusively for LinkedIn members. She's generated about 29,000 followers after posting <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/in/megwhitman/">two columns</a> this week, one on HP's turnaround, and another on her <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20130226150031-71744402-why-i-support-civil-marriage-for-same-sex-couples">change of heart about gay marriage</a>.
More importantly, HP has been using targeted LinkedIn Follow ads, which encourage users to subscribe to HP updates which appear when they log in to the professional network. Those have helped it add 300,000 followers in two months, according to LinkedIn vice president of marketing Nick Besbeas.
This isn't the largest <keyword id="6354632" type="COMPANY" weightage="60" keywordseo="Social-media">social media</keyword> following HP has. Its Facebook page has nearly 2.3 million fans. But HP's LinkedIn presence has more than five times the number of Twitter followers @HP has—180,000.

People Are Loving HP On LinkedIn

Tata Consultancy Services has topped the <keyword id="28120" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="linkedin" source="Orion">LinkedIn</keyword>'s latest list of top companies to work for in India, followed by <keyword id="6370971" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="accenture" source="Orion">Accenture</keyword> and <keyword id="28721" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="cognizant" source="Orion">Cognizant</keyword> in the second and third place respectively. Professional networking platform LinkedIn on Tuesday released the 2024 Top Companies list for India wherein <keyword id="6357647" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="it-companies" source="Orion">IT companies</keyword> bagged the top three ranks, while <keyword id="6354241" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="financial-services" source="Orion">financial services</keyword> firms dominated the list with 9 out of 25 companies from this sector. The 8th edition has derived insights from LinkedIn data, and lists the top 25 large companies, 15 best mid-size companies, and provides insights on in-demand skills, top locations, and the largest job functions within these companies. Amongst large companies (500+ employees in India), Tata Consultancy Services retained its top spot this year, followed by Accenture and Cognizant. Continuing the trend from last year, financial services dominated the 2024 list with 9 out of 25 companies from this sector including Macquarie Group (4th place), Morgan Stanley (5th), and JPMorgan Chase and Co (6th), LinkedIn said. Software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform Lentra ranked first on the list of top mid-size companies list (250-500 employees), followed by Indian online travel platform MakeMyTrip. The list also featured fashion and beauty retailer Nykaa and fantasy sports platform Dream11, showcasing the wide range of opportunities available in diverse industries for job seekers in India. "The in-demand skills that the top companies are looking for in the financial services sector include investor relations, capital markets, and investment banking. Companies in the technology sector are looking for skills such as enterprise software, data storage technologies, software development life cycle (SDLC), and artificial intelligence (AI)," the data revealed. Revenue analysis, nonprofit management, and mobile application development are some of the other skills that are witnessing a surge in demand, it added. Silicon valley of India, Bengaluru was named the top location where these top companies are based and looking to hire talent, followed by Hyderabad, Mumbai Metropolitan Region, and Pune. LinkedIn said the ranking of companies is based on eight pillars that have been shown to lead to career progression such as the ability to advance, skills growth, company stability, external opportunity, company affinity, gender diversity, educational background, and employee presence in the country.

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