LinkedIn is acquiring SlideShare, which allows its users to share presentations online, for US$118.75 million as it tries to find new ways to make its site more useful, the company said on Thursday.

LinkedIn went public a year ago at $45 per share. The stock added $8.98 to $118.39 after results were released. Shares had closed up $3.01, or 2.8 percent, to $109.41 during the regular trading day.

LinkedIn Corp. said Thursday that its first-quarter profit more than doubled, and the business networking company is buying presentation sharing website SlideShare for $118.8 million.Shares jumped ...

SlideShare allows you to share presentations, documents, and videos with anyone. And since most presentations are work-related, a match-up with LinkedIn — which has more than 100 million users ...

LinkedIn -owned SlideShare is rolling out a new tool that could enable more-informed business decisions based on real-time responses from content sent via email. Targeted towards the sales and ...

In addition to Slideshare's archival content, Scribd is acquiring its 100 million users, as well as its presentation upload and hosting tools. According to LinkedIn, Scribd will begin operating ...

LinkedIn this afternoon announced a deal to buy the professional content-sharing site SlideShare for $118.75 million in cash and stock. The deal will include about 45% cash and about 55% stock ...

Starting today, any LinkedIn SlideShare user can do the same. When you launch a SlideShare deck on the web, you’ll notice there’s now a “Clip Slide” icon at the bottom-left corner of slides.

SlideShare, a site for posting, viewing, rating and commenting on business presentations, documents and videos, is deepening its integration with LinkedIn, the professional networking site.