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It works even on 2G feature phones and eats up less than 1 MB of space. The company has also tied up with Infor for a customer relations tool
LinkedIn is the world's largest online professional network with 500 million members world-wide, 42 millon of them in India. It has recently launched a 'lite' version of its app tailored to run on mobile devices rather than on a desktop. LinkedIn Lite’ is an app for Android phones and tablets and occupies less than 1 MB of space.
The lite version of LinkedIn was fully developed in India by its R&D team based in Bangalore and after its launch to Indian users, it will be offered in over 60 countries. It has been written to work even on basic 2G phones, where it opens in 2 seconds or less. While clever programming reduces data usage by 80 per cent, it does not compromise on any of LinkedIn's signature features: news feed, jobs, profile, network, messaging, notifications, and search.
Says LinkedIn’s Country Manager for India, Akshay Kothari: "Regardless of their device or location, we hope to level the playing field for all LinkedIn members so they can get closer to their dream jobs, grow their networks and become more successful."
India is LinkedIn's largest market in the Asia Pacific region with over 35 per cent share—and the largest outside the US.
Top Indian business buzzwords
LinkedIn recently released its ranking of Top Ten most over-used business buzzwords in India. It analysed the profile summaries of 39 million members in India and compiled the Buzzwords 2017 list.
The top ten India Buzzwords for this year are 1. Specialized 2. Leadership 3. Expert 4. Strategic 5. Passionate 6. Certified 7. Responsible 8. Excellent 9. Experienced 10. Focused.
Indian partnership
Last week, Infor, a leading global provider of business applications announced integration of its Customer Relationship Management (CRM) solution with LinkedIn's Sales Navigator.
While Infor CRM provides a complete view of applicable customer touch points across sales, marketing, customer service, and support teams, and helps organizations maximize the impact of interactions across the entire customer lifecycle, LinkedIn Sales Navigator taps into the power of LinkedIn’s more than 500 million member network to help sales professionals find and build relationships with prospects and customers.
This integration is expected to deliver new tools to assist sales professionals identify new contacts with contextual lead recommendations with alerts to job or company changes.