OPEN Business Club AG (the company behind XING) acquires Neurona, the Spanish market leader for online business networking. Neurona has more than 830,000 membes and is the largest contact online business network in Spain and Latin America.

At the OpenBC blog it says Our dedication for the Spanish Market rises: Neurona joins XING.

Following our first acquisition of eConozco , with over 150,000 members, we now have a *huge number* of Spanish speaking business professionals in Spain and Latin America on the site, which indisputably makes us the market leader in the Spanish business networking market (on top of our already established market leadership in Germany).

Spanish can serve as an additional way into the US market. LinkedIn is in English only, now XING + Neurona will target another section of their home market.