[3][4] The site is primarily focused on the German-speaking market, alongside XING Spain, and competes with the American platform LinkedIn.

[5][6] OPEN Business Club AG was founded in August 2003 in Hamburg, Germany, by Lars Hinrichs.

[20] In 2017, XING acquired global expat network InterNations and Austrian recruitment company Prescreen.

[22] XING became the first Web 2.0 company to go public in Europe,[23] debuting on 7 December 2006 at an issue price of 30 euros per share.

The platform offers personal profiles, groups, discussion forums, event coordination, and other common social community features.

XING also offers the system for closed communities, called Enterprise groups with their own access paths and interface designs.