{"id":49221,"date":"2012-05-04T10:24:07","date_gmt":"2012-05-04T08:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=49221"},"modified":"2012-05-07T10:00:08","modified_gmt":"2012-05-07T08:00:08","slug":"linkedin-acquires-slideshare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/49221-linkedin-acquires-slideshare.html","title":{"rendered":"LinkedIn acquires SlideShare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"LinkedIn Corp\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/384025-LinkedIn\">LinkedIn<\/a> has acquired content-sharing platform, <a title=\"SlideShare\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/305693-SlideShare\">SlideShare<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The professional social network absorbed SlideShare for $119 million in cash and stock.<\/p>\n<p>Founded in October 2006, SlideShare is a sharing platform for business documents, videos and presentations, allowing users to find and share professional media content.<\/p>\n<p>SlideShare is also enabling the sharing of presentations and content throughout the web, as nearly 7.4 million SlideShare presentations are embedded across 1.4 million unique domains.<\/p>\n<p>The acquisition seemed a natural move for both companies after SlideShare recently deepened their integration with LinkedIn.<\/p>\n<h5>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2012\/05\/03\/linkedin-acquires-professional-content-sharing-platform-slideshare-for-119m\/?grcc=f3d6feef904840b814af36f5377c15c8Z8ZwdgtZ0Z32Z54Z30Z3\">TechCrunch<\/a><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Media-sharing platform bought up by LinkedIn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":340900,"featured_media":31502,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[3666,11337],"class_list":["post-49221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-linkedin","tag-slideshare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49221"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/340900"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49221"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49367,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49221\/revisions\/49367"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}