LinkedIn is pulling out of China, though Microsoft remains

Microsoft Corp is shutting down LinkedIn in China following increased regulatory scrutiny, but the firm has other businesses still exposed in the important market.

While other tech behemoths — like Google and Facebook Inc. — have mostly stayed out of China, Microsoft’s search engine Bing and its cloud-based business software remain. In addition, its Windows operating system still dominates in China, the Wall Street Journal reported.

LinkedIn is the only major US-owned social network operating in the country, where the government requires such platforms to follow strict rules and regulations.

The Redmond, Washington-headquartered tech giant said it was pulling the plug on LinkedIn in China nearly seven years after its launch and would replace it with a stripped-down version of the platform that would focus only on jobs.