First Middle East Office TECHSLICE In LinkedIn's blog, Ali Matar, Head of Linkedin MENA, Hiring Solutions announced that the social networking firm has opened an office in Dubai. It's the company's first office in the Middle East. LinkedIn claims to have more than one million members in the UAE and several million more across the region. The purpose of the office of course is to extract earnings from the region through the promotion of LinkedIn's hiring solutions. In that market sector they will be up against the homegrown hiring giant, bayt.com , and other international firms such as Monster.