Business network Viadeo debuts in UK

Viadeo, a business social network with more than one million members across Europe, has launched in the UK.

The site, which was started in 2002 by three French entrepreneurs as an
internal tool, aims to allow business professionals to create profiles
and build networks online and meet and exchange information and views

with like-minded people worldwide on issues from the stock market to

digital marketing.

The site went public in France in 2004, and by the end of 2005 there
were 100,000 members and 10 staff. It is similar to other such
networking sites as LinkedIn, Xing and Ecademy.

Viadeo claims 3,000 new users join each day and the site is available in
English, French, Spanish, German, Portuguese and Italian.

With Viadeo, users can not only create personal profiles online, but
also participate in the business community aspect of the network.
Viadeo's "hubs" allow business people to network with like-minded people
all over the world through discussion boards, forums, blogs and RSS
feeds.