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The concern for LinkedIn is that professional networkers are increasingly using Facebook, which also recently <a href="/blog/1256-facebook-welcomes-third-party-developers">opened up to widget developers</a>. LinkedIn, which <a href="/blog/760-linkedin-targets-europe-after-new-funding-round">recently raised £6.5m in funding</a> for European expansion, has around 11m members. Meanwhile, rival business network <a href="http://www.xing.com/">Xing</a> has continued its acquisition policy with the <a href="http://corporate.xing.com/index.php?id=106&no_cache=1&L=1&tx_ttnews[tt_news]=459&tx_ttnews[backPid]=6&cHash=39eb557748">purchase of Neurona</a>, the biggest business network in Spain with over 835,000 members. Earlier this year, Xing acquired <a href="/blog/981-xing-buys-spanish-business-social-network">Spain's second biggest business network eConozco</a>. These two deals now make Xing the market leader in the Spanish speaking world.

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Business network LinkedIn is reportedly planning to open its platform to developers over the next nine months. <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/">LinkedIn</a> founder and chairman Reid Hoffman <a href="http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=5482">told Dan Farber</a> that he wants to create a way for users who spend time on <a href="http://www.facebook.com/">Facebook</a> to get LinkedIn notifications.

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