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(Reuters) - Facebook Inc Professional version of its social network for companies will be launched in the coming months, a person familiar with the matter told Reuters on Monday.
# 1 social network in the internet world, with 1.35 billion monthly users has quietly tested a version of its site-oriented collaboration in the workplace. The service, called Facebook at work, allowing users to exchange messages and documents using the scroll on the new Facebook and other known elements of the public version of Facebook.
The professional version of Facebook that could compete with services like LinkedIn Corp and Salesforce.com Inc and Microsoft Corp, allows users to specific portions of their existing Facebook profiles are hold, the person said. Work activities are not common in the user's personal profile, and do not disturb baby pictures, videos and general popular jokes in the public version of Facebook with the professional version.
A Facebook team in London leads the effort and a small number of companies currently a pilot version of the service, the person said.
It is still unclear how Facebook plans to make money with a professional service. Facebook is currently charging a subscription fee for the test, according to a report in the Financial Times, which first reported the news service. Facebook currently generates its revenue from the ads that appear on your existing service.
Shares of LinkedIn, a social network for professional users, fell 5 percent to $ 222.12 in midday trading on Monday. Salesforce.com is down 1.74 percent to $ 62.80 and Microsoft remained virtually unchanged at $ 49.54.
Facebook shares fell 1 percent to $ 74.13.
(Reporting by Alexei Oreskovic; average Diane Craft Spanish)
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