Looks like it’s the new trend! Facebook acquires Instagram for US$1 billion and LinkedIn acquires SlideShare for US$118.75!
If you don’t know what SlideShare is, it’s a presentation sharing website. SlideShare allows users to upload presentations publicly or privately – upon their choice. Those presentations can then be embedded onto blogs, websites, or presentations. They are then shared on social media platforms like Twitter, Facebook, and now LinkedIn. You can have a better of how it works visiting the website itselfhttp://www.slideshare.net/
SlideShare users have uploaded more than 9 million presentations. In March of this year 2012, SlideShare had nearly 29 million unique visitors. Besides presentations, SlideShare also hosts documents, PDFs, videos, and webinars.
The purchase price is a combination of approximately 45 percent in cash and 55 percent in stock, according to LinkedIn. If everything goes according to plan, the acquisition will close during the second quarter.
The potential for synergy between SlideShare and LinkedIn is almost innate, almost better than Facebook and Instagram and one has to wonder what sort of large plans are in store for the future.
This has got me thinking though, what could twitter possibly acquire? Any ideas?
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