ApnaCircle.com is a social media platform for professionals. Business, career and networking are the three pillars on which this social media site is built. In the recent past, ApnaCircle.com, which was founded by Mr. Yogesh Bansal and which is now a Viadeo Group Company, revamped its user-interface to enable easy navigation.  It also launched a Blackberry app last year so as to woo the executive...

The world’s prominent professional social networking web-portal LinkedIn has managed to cross a significant milestone. The total number of subscribers has crossed 200 Million, declared the company. With 18 Million members, India is second only to USA (74 Million) in terms of membership. The other countries with mention-worthy contribution are United Kingdom (11 million), Brazil (11 million) and...

LinkedIn has eased the way forward for businesses who intend to attract professionals and prospective clients in the Business-to-Business network. In a rather positive development, the company has introduced a custom API for management of ads and marketing campaigns on its site. Earlier, the service was open through the LinkedIn ads page, akin to the Google Adsense. The service was remotely similar...

LinkedIn, the professional social networking website, via its official blog has revealed the desire-factor of companies. The report, simply titled, ‘100 most in-demand employers’ clearly puts Google as the most sought-after company, the world-over. However, Indians interestingly prefer knowledge-based Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) company Accenture. The world over, people’s top five aspired-to...

LinkedIn has announced the opening of its first regional office in Middle East today according to a report on The Next Web. The growing number of professionals who have started using the social network in the Middle East has now mandated the establishment of a regional office. The office is located in Dubai, a part of the United Arab Emirates. According to a blogpost put up by an employee, LinkedIn...

Professional networking site, ApnaCircle has added a company page feature to the service which will now enable companies to highlight and share important news, products and career opportunities on the network. This feature has been long overdue and has already been deployed successfully by its more popular rival, LinkedIn. The new features are listed below. Overview Tab: This is the landing page for...

ApnaCircle, a Business and Career networking site, has partnered with Indo Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) for the ITBP Half Marathon. The web-site will act as ‘Online Networking Partner’ for the event. It is heartening to know that the power of social networking has now reached such significant heights as to be considered a vital contributing factor to jacking up the popularity for an event. Social...

Less than a month ago, I connected with a freelance writer via Twitter. A colleague gave me her twitter handle, I tweeted, she replied, and within 4 days she was hired by my firm as a freelance writer for a big client. Although this worked in both our favors, social media monitoring agency Reppler along with Lab42 has conducted a research study which shows that a colossal 91% of employers use social...

The rise of Social Media changed the way the recruitment Industry worked. LinkedIn was the first social network to leverage online and social platforms to connect employees and employers with each other. Right now it is a sizable business which plays a huge role in the way people network professionally. In fact, it has pretty much owned the professional networking space since a while now. The action...

Indian users on the professional networking site LinkedIn have crossed the 15 Million mark. India is second only to US in terms of users. The site which is preferred by professionals world-wide has been able to garner the support of over 161 Million user world-wide & accordingly, its 1/10th user base comes from India alone. The milestone of 15 million professional Indian users has been crossed...