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Congrats to team SlideShare. Good product! Wondering whats the goal of LinkedIn for this acquisition? It is not a people acquisition. And SlideShare is already

by dm8 14y ago

Congrats to team SlideShare. Good product! Wondering whats the goal of LinkedIn for this acquisition? It is not a people acquisition. And SlideShare is already integrated with LinkedIn's platform. So I'm curious!

oacgnol 14y ago
It seems like a strategic acquisition. LinkedIn looks poised to be expanding more into business operations/communications, especially given their previous acquisition of CardMunch. I can definitely see them trying to position themselves as an indispensable communication tool for industry and business professionals.
- dgudkov 14y ago
  Then they should buy Yammer next.
  - dm8 14y ago
    But they need at least couple more hundreds of Millions to buy them.
  - avichal 14y ago
    I think Yammer is probably too expensive at this point. But they might want to build a competitor. Social CRM in general is a hot space and LinkedIn is well positioned to take a big chunk of that market.
- jedc 14y ago
  And their acquisition of Rapportive fits in this context, too. (Great tools to help individuals in their business ops/comms.)