Nearly seven years after its inception, microsoft Corp. (MSFT.O) is shutting down LinkedIn in china, signalling the end of the last major US-owned social network in the country as Chinese authorities tighten their grip on the internet.
LinkedIn made a post on its blog on thursday that the platform will be replaced later this year with a stripped-down variant entitled "InJobs" that would focus just on employment and would not emphasise a social feed or share options.
In 2014, the platform moved into china, admitting that it would have to filter some of the information users posted on its website to comply with Chinese regulations. LinkedIn has announced that they had had success in assisting Chinese users in finding employment and other economic possibilities. In the more social elements of sharing and keeping informed, however, LinkedIn has not had the same degree of success. In china, however, they face a considerably more difficult working climate and stricter compliance standards.
LinkedIn's activities in china have been widely followed as a model for how a Western social media app may operate within the country's strictly regulated internet, where several other platforms are prohibited, including (TWTR.N), facebook (FB.O), and Alphabet Inc's (GOOGL.O) YouTube.
LinkedIn made a post on its blog on thursday that the platform will be replaced later this year with a stripped-down variant entitled "InJobs" that would focus just on employment and would not emphasise a social feed or share options.
In 2014, the platform moved into china, admitting that it would have to filter some of the information users posted on its website to comply with Chinese regulations. LinkedIn has announced that they had had success in assisting Chinese users in finding employment and other economic possibilities. In the more social elements of sharing and keeping informed, however, LinkedIn has not had the same degree of success. In china, however, they face a considerably more difficult working climate and stricter compliance standards.
LinkedIn's activities in china have been widely followed as a model for how a Western social media app may operate within the country's strictly regulated internet, where several other platforms are prohibited, including (TWTR.N), facebook (FB.O), and Alphabet Inc's (GOOGL.O) YouTube.
