LinkedIn Cuts 716 Jobs, Kills App in Deepening China Pullout
- Microsoft unit aims to shelve InCareer app by August
- LinkedIn first shuttered its social networking site in 2021
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Microsoft Corp.’s LinkedIn plans to shut its jobs app in China and cut about 716 jobs, as the US professional networking service further shrinks its presence in the world’s No. 2 economy.
LinkedIn, citing intense competition, will phase out the InCareer local jobs app by August. It intends to cut local engineering and product teams, while downsizing functions such as sales and marketing, it said in a blogpost.