According to openBLOG OPEN Business Club AG, the company behind XING, will co-operate with the US company Zoom Information Inc.
ZoomInfo is a business information search engine that indexes the Business Web to quickly find information about industries, companies and people. The partnership will provide XING’s 2 million-plus members with immediate access to profiles on nearly 36 million business people and 3.8 million companies directly from the XING platform.
The integration between XING’s platform and ZoomInfo’s search engine is planned to go live in the fall of 2007. The entry into the US market is another step in the framework of the announced international expansion strategy of OPEN Business Club AG. The cooperation agreement with ZoomInfo represents the company’s first in North America.
I am a member of XING and this is a very interesting step forward. XING recently launched the Marketplace and now this step into the US market. The new partnership can give LinkedIn a harder competition in its home market. Guess I have to take a serious look at ZoomInfo…
Update.
I did check my own information at ZoomInfo, it turned out to be 7-8 years old. A search at Google would give much more and current information about me.
