Social networking service LinkedIn is to create 200 jobs in Dublin, it has been announced.

Any probe into Microsoft’s proposed $26.2bn (€23.2bn) acquisition of professional social network LinkedIn, announced early last week, is likely to focus on the tie-up’s potential to leverage vast amounts of user data, the EU’s anti-competitive chief said yesterday.

Microsoft is acquiring professional social network LinkedIn for $26.2bn (€23.19bn) in one of the largest tech-industry deals on record, as the maker of Windows software attempts to put itself at the centre of people’s business lives.

LinkedIn’s shares plunged about 35% yesterday, wiping out nearly $9 billion (€8bn) of market value, after the social network for professionals shocked Wall Street with a revenue forecast that fell far short of expectations.

Pádraic, a Project Director for Cork Foundation has been wondering about how best to use LinkedIn.

Online professional network, LinkedIn, is to recruit 100 workers and take its workforce in Ireland to 1,000.

The IDA has said it is confident that web and technological companies here will continue to expand into the future.

LinkedIn has said it has 100 vacancies at its European headquarters in Dublin.

LinkedIn has launched a new standalone iOS App named LinkedIn Lookup which aims to help users know their co-workers better.

A worldwide intellectual property watchdog has ruled that an Irishman cannot keep the Linkedin.ie domain name after the employment network LinkedIn.com made a complaint.

Business-orientated social media network company, LinkedIn has acquired more than 17,000 sq m of new office space in Dublin, which will allow it the capacity to increase its Irish-based workforce by around 600 people over the coming years.