XING is the social network for business professionals.

• More than 11.4 million members worldwide (September 2011) use XING to boost their business, job, and career.
  
  
• XING is a platform where professionals from all kinds of different industries can meet up, find jobs, colleagues, new assignments, cooperation partners, experts and generate business ideas.
  
  
• Members can meet and exchange views in around 50,000 specialist groups, while also getting together at networking events.
  
  
• XING is the only social network in the world with full SSL encryption as standard. For more information about this, please go to Security at XING.
  
  
• The platform is operated by XING AG, which was founded in Hamburg, Germany, in 2003 and has been publicly listed since 2006.
  
  
• In December 2010, XING acquired amiando AG, a Munich-based company and Europe’s leading provider of online event management and ticketing.
  
  
• The company currently employs 420 people and is still on the lookout for new talent to join the team.