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"It looks like LinkedIn has progressed one more step in China after a WeChat update over the weekend revealed that the wildly-popular messaging service has integrated profiles from the career-focused social network.\r\n\r\nThe latest update to both WeChat and\u00A0Weixin, the version available in China,\u00A0lets\u00A0users link their LinkedIn account to WeChat. This would likely help to raise the profile of LinkedIn among WeChat's users, especially in China, given that the messaging service has an\u00A0estimated 500 million plus registered users in the country alone. It\u00A0has\u00A0270 million active users\u00A0worldwide.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nThe latest development comes after LinkedIn\u00A0made a move in the country\u00A0earlier this month with the appointment of\u00A0Derek Shen, the founder and former CEO of Chinese Groupon-like group-buying site\u00A0Nuomi, as the president of LinkedIn China.\r\n\r\nLinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman also\u00A0previously\u00A0acknowledged the importance of the Android ecosystem to China. We speculated that this meant we could expect LinkedIn to\u00A0focus its efforts on mobile in the world\u2019s largest smartphone market as well -- and the company has delivered, albeit with a small step.\r\n\r\nThe latest WeChat update also adds real-time location sharing with its Walkie Talkie voice feature, universal search including chat history search, notifications if you are mentioned in a group chat, as well as the ability to share sticker sets with friends.\r\n\r\nHeadline image via Justin Sullivan/Getty Images"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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