LinkedIn welcomes SlideShare Team.

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LinkedIn welcomes SlideShare Team.

LinkedIn welcomes SlideShare Team.

View more presentations from LinkedIn you now can read after the slides presentations here below . The deal is done, and the SlideShare team is welcomed.

Finally SlideShare a leading professional content sharing community joined to LinkediIn the world`s largest professional on the internet.

Benefits of  the merge?

LinkedIn objective is to make professionals and successful. LinkeIn has 161 million members, 107 million monthly visitors and 2 + members sign up per second.

SlideShare who powers discovery of people through content , and content through people, has 9 million content uploads and 29 million monthly unique visitors.

LinkedIn + SlideShare manage your professional identity ( education, skills, experience , awards and presentations)  and insights (helping you spread and discover professional knowledge) everywhere ( building the knowledge network across the professional web, 7.4 million presentations embedded across the web and 1.4 million unique domains with slideshare presentations)

The deal was closed for 185,75 million.

LinkedIn and Slideshare

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Press Release:

LinkedIn (NYSE:LNKD), the world’s largest professional network on the Internet with 161 million members worldwide, today announced it agreed to acquire SlideShare, a leading professional content sharing community. 

The transaction is valued at approximately $118.75 million, subject to adjustment, in a combination of approximately 45 percent cash and approximately 55 percent stock. Subject to the completion of customary conditions, the acquisition is expected to close during the second quarter of 2012. 

Founded in October 2006, SlideShare helps professionals discover people through content, and content through people. SlideShare users have uploaded more than nine million presentations, and according to comScore, in March SlideShare had nearly 29 million unique visitors, ranking it among the most heavily trafficked sites for professional content. 

SlideShare is also enabling the sharing of presentations across the Web; nearly 7.4 million presentations hosted by SlideShare are embedded across more than 1.4 million unique domains. 

“Presentations are one of the main ways in which professionals capture and share their experiences and knowledge, which in turn helps shape their professional identity,” said LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner. “These presentations also enable professionals to discover new connections and gain the insights they need to become more productive and successful in their careers, aligning perfectly with LinkedIn’s mission and helping us deliver even more value for our members. We’re very excited to welcome the SlideShare team to LinkedIn.”  

Rashmi Sinha, CEO of SlideShare commented, “We built SlideShare to help professionals share presentations and connect people through content. What we can build with LinkedIn, the largest professional network on the Internet, is the most natural extension of this vision. I am excited about what we can build together.”

Deep Nishar, LinkedIn’s Senior Vice President of Product and User Experience, blogged about the acquisition at http://blog.linkedin.com/topic/slideshare/, and a SlideShare presentation outlining the deal can be found on LinkedIn’s SlideShare page at: http://www.slideshare.net/linkedin/linkedin-and-slideshare and on the investor relations section of the LinkedIn website at: http://investors.linkedin.com/. 

Press Contact

press@linkedin.com

Investor Contact

Matt Sonefeldt 

msonefeldt@linkedin.com

About LinkedIn

Founded in 2003, LinkedIn connects the world’s professionals to make them more productive and successful. With 161 million members worldwide, including executives from every Fortune 500 company, LinkedIn is the world’s largest professional network on the Internet. The company has a diversified business model with revenues coming from member subscriptions, marketing solutions and hiring solutions. Headquartered in Silicon Valley, LinkedIn has offices across the globe.

About SlideShare

Founded in 2006, SlideShare is a leading professional content sharing community. Professionals can upload content for free, discover people through content, and content through people. SlideShare brings presentations, documents and videos to life on the web for professionals to discover and share. Premium social content marketing subscriptions enable professionals and brands to gain social media engagement and generate sales leads. The company is based in San Francisco, Calif., and is backed by investors including Jonathan Abrams, Mark Cuban, Dave McClure, and Venrock. More information about SlideShare is available at www.slideshare.net.

Press Release: LinkedIn to acquire SlideShare for $118,75 million.

WorldWide Tech & Science. Francisco De Jesús.

 

Press Release: LinkedIn to acquire SlideShare for $118,75 million.

In a statement (press release below) Thursday, LinkedIn said the US$118.75 million transaction will be a combination of approximately 45 percent cash and around 55 percent stock. The acquisition is expected to close during the second quarter this year, it added.

LinkedIn noted SlideShare users have uploaded more than nine million presentations, and citing ComScore figures, said it had nearly 29 million unique visitors last March.

LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner said: "Presentations are one of the main ways in which professionals capture and share their experiences and knowledge, which in turn helps shape their professional identity."

"These presentations also enable professionals to discover new connections and gain the insights they need to become more productive and successful in their careers, aligning perfectly with LinkedIn's mission and helping us deliver even more value for our members. We're very excited to welcome the SlideShare team to LinkedIn," added Weiner.

In the same statement, Rashmi Sinha, CEO of SlideShare, said: "We built SlideShare to help professionals share presentations and connect people through content. What we can build with LinkedIn, the largest professional network on the Internet, is the most natural extension of this vision. I am excited about what we can build together."

Deep Nishar, senior vice president of product and user experience at LinkedIn, said in a blog post Thursday that both LinkedIn and SlideShare had been "working closely together" over the past few years, and the acquisition "means good things to professionals everywhere".

LinkedIn's acquisition of SlideShare comes as it announced stellar earnings for the first quarter of 2012, ended Mar. 31. 

In a separate statement Thursday, the company said revenue for the first quarter was US$188.5 million, a 101 percent increase from US$93.9 million in the first quarter of 2011. Net income also more than doubled in the first quarter this year to US$5 million, from US$2.1 million in the last year.

Weiner said LinkedIn's "solid performance" in the first quarter was built on the company's momentum in 2011. "We saw strength across all key metrics from member signups and engagement to significant revenue growth across our three product lines."

According to the company, revenue from the U.S. totaled US$120.8 million, representing 64 percent of total revenue in the first quarter of 2012, while revenue from international markets at US$67.6 million, made up the remaining 36 percent.

For the second quarter this year, LinkedIn said it expects revenue to range between US$210 million to US$215 million. It also upgraded its outlook for 2012 full year revenue to range from US$880 million to US$900 million, instead of the prior range of US$840 million to US$860 million.

Press Release:

Mountain View, Calif. – May 3, 2012 – LinkedIn (NYSE:LNKD), the world’s largest professional network on the Internet with 161 million members worldwide, today announced it agreed to acquire SlideShare, a leading professional content sharing community. 

The transaction is valued at approximately $118.75 million, subject to adjustment, in a combination of approximately 45 percent cash and approximately 55 percent stock. Subject to the completion of customary conditions, the acquisition is expected to close during the second quarter of 2012. 

Founded in October 2006, SlideShare helps professionals discover people through content, and content through people. SlideShare users have uploaded more than nine million presentations, and according to comScore, in March SlideShare had nearly 29 million unique visitors, ranking it among the most heavily trafficked sites for professional content. 

SlideShare is also enabling the sharing of presentations across the Web; nearly 7.4 million presentations hosted by SlideShare are embedded across more than 1.4 million unique domains. 

“Presentations are one of the main ways in which professionals capture and share their experiences and knowledge, which in turn helps shape their professional identity,” said LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner. “These presentations also enable professionals to discover new connections and gain the insights they need to become more productive and successful in their careers, aligning perfectly with LinkedIn’s mission and helping us deliver even more value for our members. We’re very excited to welcome the SlideShare team to LinkedIn.” 

Rashmi Sinha, CEO of SlideShare commented, “We built SlideShare to help professionals share presentations and connect people through content. What we can build with LinkedIn, the largest professional network on the Internet, is the most natural extension of this vision. I am excited about what we can build together.”

Deep Nishar, LinkedIn’s Senior Vice President of Product and User Experience, blogged about the acquisition at http://blog.linkedin.com/topic/slideshare/, and a SlideShare presentation outlining the deal can be found on LinkedIn’s SlideShare page at: http://www.slideshare.net/linkedin/linkedin-and-slideshare and on the investor relations section of the LinkedIn website at: http://investors.linkedin.com/. 

Press Contact

press@linkedin.com

Investor Contact

Matt Sonefeldt 

msonefeldt@linkedin.com

About LinkedIn

Founded in 2003, LinkedIn connects the world’s professionals to make them more productive and successful. With 161 million members worldwide, including executives from every Fortune 500 company, LinkedIn is the world’s largest professional network on the Internet. The company has a diversified business model with revenues coming from member subscriptions, marketing solutions and hiring solutions. Headquartered in Silicon Valley, LinkedIn has offices across the globe.

About SlideShare

Founded in 2006, SlideShare is a leading professional content sharing community. Professionals can upload content for free, discover people through content, and content through people. SlideShare brings presentations, documents and videos to life on the web for professionals to discover and share. Premium social content marketing subscriptions enable professionals and brands to gain social media engagement and generate sales leads. The company is based in San Francisco, Calif., and is backed by investors including Jonathan Abrams, Mark Cuban, Dave McClure, and Venrock. More information about SlideShare is available at www.slideshare.net.

Forward-Looking Statements 

This press release contains forward-looking statements related to LinkedIn, SlideShare, the timing and consummation of the acquisition of SlideShare and the potential benefits of the acquisition. Actual events or results may differ materially from those contained in the forward-looking statements. Please refer to the documents LinkedIn files from time to time with the SEC, including LinkedIn’s most recent Form 10-K and the Form 10-Q LinkedIn will file for the quarter ended March 31, 2012. These SEC filings contain and identify important factors that could cause results of the acquisition to differ materially from those contained in LinkedIn’s forward-looking statements. LinkedIn is under no duty to update any of the forward-looking statements after the date of this press release to conform to actual results. 

"Those who CAN...do. Those who CAN'T...teach." Not so fast!

"Those who can, do.  Those who can't, teach."  

I'm sure you've all heard that famous adage.  I used to use it myself!  Not anymore.

A few months ago I was following a discussion on LinkedIn about why many universities don't yet offer marketing classes in social media.  The majority of comments in the discussion seemed to be in agreement:  That many tenured marketing professors don't know much about social or digital media because neither existed when the educators were learning about marketing, and very few of them use digital platforms themselves. 

However, social and digital media can't continue to be ignored as new marketing channels.  So where do universities go to find teachers who can educate students on their use in the business world?  And if universities continue to disregard social media, where do students go to learn about it as a marketing tool?  The second of these two questions is easy, since students are doing it already.  They attend professional workshops through organizations like the American Marketing Association that offer programs on social media almost monthly!  With the cost of student memberships in professional associations being very reasonable, more and more scholars are turning to professional practitioners to educate them on new strategies and innovative models that they can't learn in the classroom.

But what about the answer to the first question:  Where do universities get teachers to educate their students on the use of digital and social media?  The answer is... the same:  Adjunct faculty - professional practitioners who are successfully using new channels to enhance marketing strategies, improve the customer experience and generate new revenue streams every day.

Real world experience is the best teacher.  Case studies can provide excellent examples of both expected and unexpected scenarios.  Marketing professionals can read through suggested text books to identify whether the content is accurate or a bunch of philosophical garbage, and thus focus on those pieces that will provide the greatest value to the students.

I'm not dismissing the importance of a knowledgeable professor.  Clearly business professionals are not trained educators and can't always provide the nurturing, context and perspective that a skilled teacher can offer.  But with technology literally moving at the speed of light, sometimes an experienced grunt is more valuable than a highly educated officer.

"Great Firewall of China" blocks LinkedIn

It's no secret that in recent years the Chinese government has put into place several blocks on social networking sites that would allow citizens to communicate and share information on an online community. The two largest and most internationally used websites that have been blocked throughout the nation for a while now are Facebook and Twitter. However, access to Twitter has been managed by those who have the skills and knowledge to hack in through private networks. According to CNN, the most popular way to access Twitter in China was through a loophole involving the very popular professional business-geared social networking site LinkedIn.

 The Government shutting down access to LinkedIn in order to prevent access to Twitter is yet another jab at the Chinese civilians who are being kept from communicating, sharing, and receiving news and information on the internet. Moreover, search engines such as Google are so heavily censored that it seems practically useless to use them in the first place.


Since the blocking, news of planned revolution protests are sprouting up regarding Chinese political activists eager to change the government. Any thoughts or predictions on the matter?

LinkedIn Aims to Bolster Relevancy and Recommendations for Growth

As the Internet users have seen the exponential growth of the content on the social Web continue for a long period, in order to prevent the uneccessary data overloads, it has become increasingly important to take in place smart tools that help users to filter the things that are most relevant and useful to them. In that spirit, the white-collar social-networking LinkedIn, which has 75 million members and seven-year history, has recently announced its acquisition with mSpoke, a small SAAS (software-as-a-service) start-up that offers recommendation technology.

Who is mSpoke?

If you have no idea about the acquired company, here is a brief introduction. MSpoke is a small online recommendation software start-up, which maintains a cloud-based recommendation engine to make content more relevant through recommendation technology. MSpoke’s machine learning technology is designed to make recommendations based on consumer’s implicit and explicit feedback. From that it builds a so-called adaptive personalization engine with three core products:

• mPower creates widgets and personalised e-mails to let web publishers filter content according to the preferences of users, which is great for direct e-mail marketing. 


• mTrend API allows companies to monitor competitors and emerging trends. 


• mSense tool analyses content and creates and annotates metadata within systems. 

What does LinkedIn get from the acquisition?

LinkedIn will take advantage of mSpoke's recommendation technology to integrate and add functions to its rapidly expanding network. The company expects the recommendation technology will deliver relevant content, advertising and products to its social network users to keep its users more engaged on the site, and to increase its presence on mobile devices. Then it also offer opportunities for online advertisers to target the right audience and create relevant copywriting.

The generated data from mSense, the most valuable component for LinkedIn, could be exploited to provide users recommendations about other relevant people in the LinkedIn networks based upon trends, usage or networking patterns.

The combination of recent added social features and recomendation technology will provide professionals on LinkedIn personalized news, highlighted updates, and what executives in similar careers are reading and doing on the network. For your information, LinkedIn has recently become more social by adding social features, for instance, revamping its “Groups” feature with “Likes,” Follows and Discussions options. LinkedIn has also been building more Facebook- and Twitter-like features on the homepage and link sharing options to generate more traffic and data to the site. All of these developments will generate a lot of valuable data. When they are combined with mSense, all will make LinkedIn a more useful and interactive site to users.

From all the observations, in a sense, it is seen that the world is moving very fast, social businesses are even moving faster, and every player aims to be the fastest forward-mover in order to maintain its reputation and engage more audience.