SlideShare

The company designs the websites and technologies of placement and exchange of the presentations, business-related.

2020

Roskomnadzor removed blocking from Slideshare service

Problems with access of service arose because of extremist materials, the propagandizing radical Islam. The authorities promised as soon as illegal content is deleted from a resource, it will become again available to Russians^[1].

Scribd buys SlideShare service from LinkedIn

The transaction is planned for September 24, 2020, the amount does not reveal. SlideShare stores 40 million presentations and attracts monthly 100 million visitors.

SlideShare was blocked in Russia together with LinkedIn. After change of the owner, perhaps, he will be unlocked as Scribd in the country is available. Besides, probability is high that over time SlideShare integrate into the shared directory Scribd.

2012: LinkedIn buys the company for $118 million

One of the world's largest social networks of the professional direction LinkedIn purchased in the spring of 2012 for 118.75 million dollars the SlideShare service intended for creation and viewing in network of the presentations and also documents (including in a format pdf), video and interactive seminars. The presentation of SlideShare can include in messages in blogs, to post on websites and on the corporate intranet and also in social networks Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn. Thus, SlideShare and LinkedIn and before implementation of the transaction worked together. In what direction their cooperation will develop, so far it is not clear, but so far SlideShare will continue work as before.

According to ComScore, the site SlideShare in March of this year was visited by nearly 29 million people. Now over 9 million presentations are posted on the website.

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