LinkedIn goes shopping; buys SlideShare for $118.75 million

The latest one in the business to have picked up their shopping bag happens to be the world’s largest professional network on the Internet, LinkedIn, who decided to take their association with SlideShare to a whole new level. LinkedIn has acquired presentation-sharing platform, SlideShare for $118.75 million. Both LinkedIn and SlideShare had been working together on several projects, even before the said deal took place, and the deal thus is, as SlideShare CEO, Rashmi Sinha puts it - “a natural culmination of this partnership.” SlideShare, which is often referred to as the “YouTube for slide shows”, is essentially today is a platform allowing its 29 million monthly visitors to upload, share and find presentations - a feature critical to a business, to depict and define a brand’s identity better.  Click here for full story