Within the last month, LinkedIn has added company profiles into their results. There are now profiles for 160,000 of the largest companies added onto the more than 20 million people profiles. These can only be viewed by members who are logged in.

Companies include the Fortune 500 to philanthropic organizations. The information for the company profiles is pulled from LinkedIn plus aggregated information that is pulled form LinkedIn’s partners, CapitalIQ and BusinessWeek.

LinkedIn selects these companies through finding trends in the work history of users and identifying connections between companies. Companies are not able to add their own profiles. In the next few months changes will allow employees to edit company overviews, upload logos, and add other custom modules.

These company profiles are resources for members to research and explore companies for both job and business opportunities.

Uses of LinkedIn Company Profiles

1. Locating contacts at companies that you are trying to network with.
2. View job opportunities.
3. Read latest company news.
4. See listing people that have recently joined the company.

Top 10 most viewed company profiles for the first month: source: LinkedIn Blog

1. IBM
2. Accenture
3. Microsoft
4. Google
5. Oracle
6. Hewlett-Packard
7. Cisco Systems
8. Pricewaterhouse Coopers
9. Deloitte
10. GE

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