LinkedIn SlideShare to buy $ 118 million

LinkedIn, the professional social network, has made an acquisition that will make it evenmore popular and used SlideShare, the online service for sharing presentations (the"slide" in fact).
SlideShare was born in 2006 and allows you to publish, share or keep privatepresentations of users, who are IUN PowerPoint, PDF, or OpenOffice. The presentationsusually are visible on the site of the social network can be embedded within a Web siteOther services were added over time, including now Zipcast, which allows you to createvideo conferencing over the Web while the slide show, along with an integrated Chat.

LinkedIn, for its part, has exceeded 150 million users, is the professional social networkof reference throughout the world and the March 31, 2012 said about five million dollars in profits.

The purchase by LinkedIn ($ 118,750,000) was made in cash and stock and will be finalized by the end of June: LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner said that "the presentations are one of the main tools through which professionals share experiences and knowledge,giving shape to their professional identity. "