Apparently today companies decided open the wallet and is two purchases are playing much online. The first is the popular social network LinkedIn to search for employment or so companies know about you. Apparently they liked the presentation service Slideshare, well-known among bloggers because it is the platform of choice for sharing presentations.
The idea of LinkedIn with is acquisition is to give a bonus to the profiles of professionals on LinkedIn where you can add presentations. Imagine that they are teachers of history in your LinkedIn profile will add where studied, his Awards, your skills, your experience... but many times all that is not enough already with a presentation of their work they do will give that little push to them to lack and thus get the job they want.
The data of the two websites are, Slideshare has 29 million visits a month and about 9 million documents in its database. The company that is originally from the India already has its offices in San Francisco, where 55 people work. While LinkedIn with its 161 thousand registered members and 107 thousand visitors a month make a good combination.
You can see the presentation of LinkedIn by welcoming to Slideshare from here.
While another company also went shopping, because according to The New York Times television Discovery Channel would close negotiations with Revision3 a producer of shows that are exclusively transmitted by internet.Revision3 are responsible for producing shows like Diggnation, Lifehacker, GeeBeat.tv among others. It is said that Discovery will pay between 20 to 40 million dollars by Revision3 and keep its 50 employees.
Via: TheVerge/Techcrunch
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