LinkedIn Buys Slideshare for $119 Million
World's most popular slide sharing service, Slideshare has been acquired by the world's biggest professional networking service - Linkedin for a cool sum of $119 million. LinkedIn's Deep Nishar confirmed the news in a #-Link-Snipped-#. Slideshare has raised around $3 million to date and had a revenue model mostly based on online advertising. Slideshare makes a perfect addition to LinkedIn as it will now be able to integrate professional presentations sharing and all its existing content to millions of LinkedIn users.
Interesting, yeah?
Interesting, yeah?
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Ankita Katdare$119 million is HUGE!
I never knew SlideShare had so much professional content. May be didn't use it for the proper things. 😐 But I think this is quite amusing, how will LinkedIn use this platform for its existing users? -
Dancer_EngineerThis presentation makes it clear how Linkedln + SlideShare will prove beneficial to professionals across the World. Have a look:
LinkedIn and Slideshare -
Kaustubh KatdareBy the way, Slideshare is a startup by Indians. Here's our Small Talk with Slideshare's CTO: #-Link-Snipped-#
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