LinkedIn faces setback in China over verifying of identities

Shanghai

LINKEDIN is often held up as a model of how a foreign Internet company can do business in China. Increasingly, it also serves as an example of how difficult that task can be.

Last week, the jobs-and-professional-networking service blocked individuals from advertising jobs on its site in China, after it ran afoul of new government regulations requiring it to verify their real identities, according to a person familiar with the situation.