According to the New York Times, US high school students are now creating LinkedIn profiles to include with their college applications.[14] Based in the United States, the site is, as of 2013, available in 24 languages,[2] including Arabic, Chinese, English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Dutch, Swedish, Danish, Romanian, Russian, Turkish, Japanese, Czech, Polish, Korean, Indonesian, Malay, and Tagalog.[15][16] LinkedIn filed for an initial public offering in January 2011 and traded its first shares on May 19, 2011, under the NYSE symbol "LNKD".[17]