LinkedIn is acquiring SlideShare, which allows its users to share
presentations online, for US$118.75 million as it tries to find new ways to make its site more useful, the company said on Thursday.
SlideShare allows users to upload presentations
publicly or privately, which can be embedded on blogs, websites,
company intranets and shared across Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn, so
the two companies aren’t new acquaintances.
Exactly how LinkedIn will integrate SlideShare beyond what is possible
today remains to be seen. The company is “excited to figure out the best
ways our offerings will work together,” according to a LinkedIn blog post. In the meantime, SlideShare will continue to work as it usually does, the post said.
