::::LinkedIn: India becomes second largest market::::

<div class=&quot;custm_img_blk&quot;><img src=&quot;http://www.techgig.com/files/photo_1335231870_temp.jpg&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; width=&quot;300&quot; height=&quot;180&quot; align=&quot;left&quot; /></div><span style=&quot;text-align: left&quot;>Social networking site LinkedIn's Indian user base has grown 300% in the three years it has had a marketing presence in India. The firm, today, has about 14 million users from India, which has quickly become its second-largest market globally, bigger than China and only behind the United States, according to Jeff Weiner, LinkedIn's chief executive.&nbsp;</span><br /><br /><span style=&quot;text-align: left&quot;>Those 14 million Indian users join another 135 million-odd who are tapping into some 2 million companies and many more individuals to seek out jobs (or be sought out for one), organise conferences and network with a broad spectrum of people. On a recent trip to India to keynote his firm's B2B conference in Mumbai, Weiner-the 42-year-old former executive-in-residence, with two venture capital firms in Silicon Valley-said the firm's mobile business accounts for a fifth of its user base today, compared to 8% in January 2011.&nbsp;</span><br /><br /><span style=&quot;text-align: left&quot;>&quot;Mobile is our fastest-growing business,&quot; says Weiner. &quot;LinkedIn connects talent with opportunity at a massive scale. Ultimately, our vision is to create an economic opportunity for every professional,&quot; he adds. The stage may now be set for monetisation. In February, on an earnings call after announcing the company's fourth-quarter results of 2011, Weiner had said that now that&nbsp;</span><span style=&quot;text-align: left&quot;>LinkedIn</span><span style=&quot;text-align: left&quot;>&nbsp;had got the product and user experience right, the time was ripe to test ads in the mobile environment.&nbsp;</span>

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