In a blog post, the company said it has faced many challenging environments, and there are many compliance requirements in China. The company has announced that it is planning to launch a new stand-alone app called InJobs.

LinkedIn to Shut in China, Will be Replaced with a New App “InJobs”

In China, LinkedIn will be replaced with a new app, InJobs which will have few similar features to LinkedIn but will not have a social feed or will not let users share posts or articles. In a blog post, Microsoft says, Earlier, in March, LinkedIn said no new members would be able to sign-up on LinkedIn China. Many scholars reported on getting warning letters from LinkedIn as they were sharing prohibited content that will not be viewable in China, but other country users can see it. It’s been around seven years now when LinkedIn was launched in a simple Chinese version. At the time of launch in 2014, China raised difficult questions, because it required to censor content. Apart from LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook are blocked in China since 2009, and Google has moved its search operations to Hong Kong in 2010. Microsoft has changed the Chinese language search results on Bing and has a customized version of Windows 10.

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