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  &lt;p&gt;Xing has managed to increase its membership considerably during 2006, with almost 250,000 new members added in the final quarter alone. This brought the network's total membership to 1.69m. &lt;/p&gt;
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    &lt;li&gt;At the end of 2005, the network had 680,000 members, which means Xing has achieved 149% growth in 12 months. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
    &lt;li&gt;Xing increased its paying membership by 13%, from 189,000 in 2005 to over 221,000. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
    &lt;li&gt;Xing is now the market leader in the German-speaking world, with 1.2m members in Germany, Switzerland and Austria.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
    &lt;li&gt;It increased revenue by over 200% to&#160;&#8364;10m (&#163;6.8m), with &#8364;3.6m (&#163;2.4m) generated in the last quarter. &lt;/li&gt;
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  &lt;p&gt;CEO and Founder Lars Hinrichs predicts greater growth next year: &lt;/p&gt;
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      &lt;em&gt;"Since the Initial Public Offering, we are now in a position to expand via acquisitions, as well as through our own strong organic growth. I&#8217;m confident that we will be able to register initial successes here in the first half of 2007.&#8221;&lt;/em&gt;
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      &lt;Quote&gt;"Since the Initial Public Offering, we are now in a position to expand via acquisitions, as well as through our own strong organic growth. I&#8217;m confident that we will be able to register initial successes here in the first half of 2007.&#8221;&lt;/Quote&gt;
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    &lt;strong&gt;Open Business Club AG, which operates German business social network &lt;/strong&gt;
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      &lt;strong&gt;Xing&lt;/strong&gt;
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    &lt;strong&gt;, has announced its preliminary results for 2006.&lt;/strong&gt;
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  &lt;p&gt;Back in December, &lt;a href="/blog/637-web-2-0-company-xing-raises-eur35-7-million-in-ipo"&gt;Xing became the first web 2.0 company to go public&lt;/a&gt;, and its results for the past year show some pretty impressive growth.&lt;/p&gt;
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  <learn-more-formatted>&lt;p&gt;For background on online PR and social media more generally, It's worth reading our (free to registered users) &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://econsultancy.com/reports/online-pr-and-social-media-trends-briefing"&gt;Social Media Trends Briefing&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; (June 2009). Econsultancy has also published &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://econsultancy.com/reports/social-media-and-online-pr-digital-marketing-template-files"&gt;Social Media and Online PR Template Files&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, which you can adapt and use for your own projects. For innovation in this space, download our &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://econsultancy.com/reports/innovation-report"&gt;Innovation Report&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;</learn-more-formatted>
  <learn-more-unformatted>&lt;p&gt;For background on online PR and social media more generally, It's worth reading our (free to registered users) &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://econsultancy.com/reports/online-pr-and-social-media-trends-briefing"&gt;Social Media Trends Briefing&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; (June 2009). Econsultancy has also published &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://econsultancy.com/reports/social-media-and-online-pr-digital-marketing-template-files"&gt;Social Media and Online PR Template Files&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, which you can adapt and use for your own projects. For innovation in this space, download our &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://econsultancy.com/reports/innovation-report"&gt;Innovation Report&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;</learn-more-unformatted>
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