Ann: 1PG Grows Database to more than 1.1 Billion Profiles, page-69

Thanks Arryd.
Certainly seems they have their ducks in a row. Amazing that Linkedin, FB & Twitter have been so clumsy to allow 3rd parties come in and scrape profiles to then compete against them. But as most have hinted, the horse has bolted for the moment, there is certainly no margin of saftey in this - if they hit breakeven they will really be on the way.

I wonder if this is how all social/professional networks will be created moving forward, why target individual users to sign up to your network when one can simply scrape the web for the profiles - then effectively force users onto the platform. I guess it wouldn't work too well with social networks, but certainly advertises would love it - the white pages of the globe, listing your job, geography, contact details, etc. all available for sale.