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LinkedIn Corp. headquarters in Mountain View, Calif. in 2011.(Photo: Paul Sakuma, AP)

Social networking siteLinkedIn says it plans to open a sales office in downtown Detroit and initially hire 30 local workers to fill it.

The office willfocuson selling LinkedIn's products to assist businesses withmarketing, hiring and sales growth. The office will open later this year;itsprecise location will later be announced,saidMarquise McCoy, LinkedIn's corporate communications manager.

This will actually be the first office that we are opening in the U.S. in 10 years," Mike Gamson, LinkedIn's senior vice president of global solutions, said in a statement. LinkedIn chose Detroit after evaluating more than 10 other cities.

LinkedIn has already posted job listingsfor positions in the futureDetroit office.

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Based in Mountain View, Calif.,LinkedIn is a social networking service that highlights users' work and educationalbackgrounds.

The tech company was founded in 2003 and last year was boughtby Microsoft for more than $26billion.

"We chose Detroit because it's a city with amazing talent," Gamson said. "There is a proven spirit of greatness and innovation, and these are the types of people with whom we want to work."

"We're committed to creating an economic opportunity for everyone and sometimes that means bringing the jobs to where the people are. We're excited to be part of the Detroit economic comeback story," he said.

LinkedIn will join other well-known tech companies with current and future outposts in downtown Detroit, including Twitter and Microsoft. Microsoft said earlier this year that it will relocate its southeast Michigan officeto downtown's One Campus Martius building from Southfield.

Contact JC Reindl: 313-222-6631 or jcreindl@freepress.com. Follow him on Twitter@JCReindl.

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