Beepmo describes itself as “a location-based social network for business professionals focused on Asia.” All users have to do is to key in their LinkedIn login to start using the mobile app. Beepmo helps professionals to track other professionals who are nearby. If you find someone whom you wish to meet, simply connect with him/her, and then send a message to arrange a meeting/coffee. The app also has an “ice breaker” feature that helps you to find out who are your common friends on LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter. It could be ...
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Coffee Chat: Running LinkedIn Singapore like a Startup
This post is a part of our coverage of Startups in Asia (Singapore), Penn Olson’s first tech conference. Our full coverage of the event can be found here, for our RSS feed, click here. Summary Penn Olson founder Willis Wee talked with LinkedIn APAC VP Arvind Rajan about running LinkedIn like a startup. Arvind talked about how he focuses heavily on taking the time to hire the right team. They also talked about LinkedIn's expansion, which has kept Arvind on the road nearly 80 percent of the time over the past few months. As for the ...
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LinkedIn Advises Users to Banish CV Buzzwords – Here’s Your Top 10, Singapore [INFOGRAPHIC]
The Infographic of the Day series visually expresses important stories from Asia and the world of technology. Motivated. Dynamic. Innovative. Three much-used - indeed, overused - adjectives on many people’s CVs. There are other resumé regulars, too - such as “interpersonal skills,” “track record” - that have become cliché and tiresome, used unthinkingly, and which are blasts from the past that really ought to be avoided like the plague and used few and far between. D’oh! LinkedIn (NYSE:LNKD), the business-oriented social network, has picked through the buzzwords on the profiles of its ...
Dec 1 2011
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LinkedIn Now in 3 New Languages: Bahasa Indonesia, Bahasa Malaysia, and Korean
Update: We asked why LinkedIn has decided to go with Indonesian, Bahasa Malaysia, and Korean first. And here's the team's take: Malaysia, Indonesia and Korea represent a huge growth area in Asia and we’re tremendously excited to help millions of local professionals establish their professional identity and network. The addition of three new languages is the latest step in our strategy of making LinkedIn a more relevant experience for our growing professional member base around the world. We believe there is a lot we can learn from our local members that ...
Nov 28 2011
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Running LinkedIn Singapore Like A Startup [PREVIEW]
Arvind Rajan, LinkedIn’s Managing Director for the Asia Pacific region is an experienced entrepreneur, corporate leader, and also an advisor. And we’re of course glad to have him at Startup Asia Singapore held on 3 February 2012 for a coffee chat, not at Starbucks but live on stage. I met Arvind a couple of times just to chat and to get to know him better as a friend. He is a nice chatty guy and also a person I go to when I need advice. When in our chats, one of the ...
Nov 9 2011
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Hubblr: A New Dashboard for Global Social Marketing – China Included
There are a lot of social media dashboards out there that try to bring together your social missives, but only one includes integration with China’s hippest social network - that’s Hubblr. It’s a brand-new, enterprise-oriented web app from an Australian start-up that’s aimed at making PR and online marketing across the globe - including China - a safer and slicker experience. Hubblr’s CEO and co-founder, Michael Lam (pictured right), gave me a guided tour over Skype, and then we coincidentally ran into each other again at TC Disrupt Beijing last week, giving ...
Oct 20 2011
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LinkedIn Launches in Japan, Poised for 20 Million Users in Asia
We all knew this was coming from news earlier this year, but we were a bit taken by surprise just now to learn that LinkedIn (NYSE:LNKD) held a press conference today to announce its Japanese launch as well as its new office in Tokyo. The AP quotes LinkedIn’s head of operations in the Asia Pacific region, Arvind Rajand, as saying: We think there are tremendous opportunities for growth not only in Japan but in entire region … If you look at LinkedIn’s business as a whole around the world, we ...
Aug 17 2011
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India Still Dominates LinkedIn in Asia
As we told you earlier today, Penn Olson is now one of featured publications listed on LinkedIn Today. And while our readers span the entire globe, I thought I’d revisit some of LinkedIn’s user numbers for Asia, to see how many of the network’s 120 million users are representin’ the east side (so to speak.) When I last peeked in back at the end of June, India was the big outlier with over 10 million users, which (assuming that LinkedIn's figures are reliable) accounts for more than half the users in ...
Aug 17 2011
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LinkedIn Today: An Alternative Way To Follow Our Asia Tech Stories
There are over 200 publications on LinkedIn Today and we’re happy to announce that Penn-Olson.com is one of them. We’ve been live on the site since late last week and we’re seeing some of our readers already connecting with us on LinkedIn Today. If you’re an avid LinkedIn user and reader of our blog, head over there to give us a follow. Our team thanks you in advance. Just for your information, here’s a video by LinkedIn which will give you some tips on how to use LinkedIn Today efficiently and effectively. Other ...
Jun 23 2011
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The Social Media Landscape in India [VIDEO]
Want to know how India is shaping up in the social media space? The country is doing great and the good folks at Nielsen India, made a video to explain exactly that. (They seriously deserve a like on Facebook for creating this awesome video.) They revealed several interesting statistics. Of the 80 million Indians online, one-third of them are on social media sites. Breaking down the stats, there are about: 28 million Facebook users 9 million Twitter users 9 million LinkedIn users in India. Social media is so popular among Indian Internet users that consulting ...
Jun 10 2011
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Derek Ling, CEO of Tianji, Talks On Professional Social Networks In China
Derek Ling is the CEO and founder of Tianji, the largest professional social networking site (SNS) in China with over 6 million registered users. Prior to Tianji, Derek was at Motorola to lead the company’s market entry strategy and business development in Greater China. He also served as Apple’s Director of Business Development for Greater China and was responsible for building iPod and education markets in China. He was also the former Vice President at Sina. In this interview, Derek shared with us about Tianji and also the professional social network market ...
Jun 2 2011
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4 Tips For Entrepreneurs, From LinkedIn’s APAC Head
Last night, together with a group of tech friends in Singapore, I attended a meet-up session with Arvind Rajan, the APAC Head at LinkedIn . It was a casual session, and also a way for Rajan to understand the technology (and political) scene in Singapore and Asia. Rajan briefly shared a little about LinkedIn’s history and how he ended up in Asia. The rest of the session was totally casual, no scoops (unfortunately), and no hard-sell PR bullshit (thumbs-up go out to the folks at Edelman for an event well done). When ...
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