Rafat Ali
Nov 22, 2009 11:40 AM
Jason Goldberg, the chief product officer of Xing, the European biz social network that Burda just bought a big stake in, is leaving the company with this deal, about 12 months after his social news startup Socialmedian was sold to the Germany-headquartered company. The Socialmedian sale price at that point…
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Robert Andrews
Nov 24, 2008 8:01 AM
LinkedIn rival Xing’s founder and CEO Lars Hinrichs has stepped down from the post, and is being replaced by Dr. Stefan Gross-Selbeck, eBay’s general manager for Germany. But Hinrichs remains on the company’s board and remains its largest shareholder. Rumours had circulated in news reports, which Hinrichs said on Twitter…
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Robert Andrews
May 19, 2008 11:10 AM
Hamburg-based business social network Xing may have just 5.7 million users against LinkedIn’s 21 million, but the site has plenty of grunt to front up on an acquisition trail that has seen it buy three European biz nets in the last 14 months. “We can spend at least 40 million…
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Joseph Weisenthal
Mar 27, 2008 3:13 PM
Xing, the publicly traded German social networking service that’s a bit like LinkedIn, has reported FY07 revenue of EUR 19.61 million, up more than triple from the previous year’s EUR 6.11 million. Of this, EUR 17.84 million came from subscriptions services, with the rest coming from advertising. EBITDA of EUR…
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Rafat Ali
Jan 22, 2008 8:26 PM
Xing, the Germany-based European business social network, is contuing on rolling up smaller European social networks: it has now bought out Turkish business social network Cember.net, for a total of about Euro 4.36 million (£ 3.25 million), to be paid in stages. Cember.net has about 280,000 members who use the…
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