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.
According to LinkedIn,Scribdwill take over operation of the SlideShare business on September 24.
Scribd CEO Trip Adler argued that the companies have very similar roots, both launching in 2006/2007 with stories on TechCrunch, and both of them focused on content- and document-sharing.
“The two products always had kind of similar missions,” Adler said. “The diffe