Scribd Acquires Presentation-Sharing Service SlideShare from LinkedIn

SlideShare has a new owner, with LinkedIn selling the presentation-sharing service to Scribd for an undisclosed price. From a report: According to LinkedIn, Scribd will take over operation of the SlideShare business on September 24. Scribd CEO Trip Adler argued that the companies have very similar roots, both of them focused on content- and document-sharing. "The two products always had kind of similar missions," Adler said. "The difference was, [SlideShare] focused on more on PowerPoint presentations and business users, while we focused more on PDFs and Word docs and long-form written content, more on the more general consumer." Over time, the companies diverged even further, with SlideShare acquired by LinkedIn in 2012, and LinkedIn itself acquired by Microsoft in 2016.

Ho hum

[MountainLogic]

Consolidation of two magazine kiosks on a disused side isle of a near defunct shopping mall is news for nerds?

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[LostMyBeaver]

Is it just me... or does Slashdot need to find a way to moderate a bit better?

Please either hire someone in a cheap labor country or consider some ML. It has to be possible to stop this in 2020.

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[hackertourist]

he's at -1 already, the mod system works.

Book piracy sites merge?

[LostMyBeaver]

I've never actually come across material on either of these sites that I considered to be even remotely in compliance with copyright laws. Has anyone ever actually used these sites for anything other than uploading pirated books and magazines?

Will they buy Pirate Bay Next?

[nagora]

Get all your copyright infringement under one subscription!

Or, alternatively, close Scribd down and throw everyone involved into prison where they belong, the lousy parasites.