Sagging Economy Boosts Professional Social Nets

Times are bad, so professional networks are suffering along with every other online site, right? Apparently not, at least in terms of traffic. LinkedIn, which just raised another $22.7 million (£14.7 million) last week, saw a surge in traffic in the last three months ending September. Worldwide traffic to Linked­In jumped 123 per cent compared with last year according to research firm Nielsen, which put the growth in the internet audience of 10 per cent. European rival Xing saw its third-quarter revenue surge 86 per cent to

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