Our next question comes from LinkedIn member Robert Holly (phonetic) who is joining us from Charlotte, North Carolina.

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Now we're going to take a question from LinkedIn member Esther Abeyja (phonetic).

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Our next question is from LinkedIn member Wayne Kulich (phonetic).

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Our first question is from LinkedIn member Chuck Painter.

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LinkedIn grew its member base to 218 million, an 8% increase sequentially.

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LinkedIn culled through its member profiles and came up with a top ten list of terms that are overused by professionals in the United States.

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While it doesn't appear that member accounts were accessed, the attack displayed LinkedIn's tardiness in implementing the most advanced password-encryption systems.

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And in the center is LinkedIn's richest and fastest-growing opportunity: turning the company's 161 million member profiles into the 21st-century version of a "little black book" that no corporate recruiter can live without.

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