SlideShare

SlideShare is a Web 2.0 platform for exchanging and archiving of presentations, documents, PDFs, videos and webinars.

Users can upload presentations in PowerPoint, PDF, Keynote and OpenOffice formats. The uploaded documents can be marked as either public or private. SlideShare went online on October 4, 2006. The site reached 58 million visitors per month and has about 16 million registered users. Slideshare was among the "World's Top 10 tools for education & e-learning" in 2010. The users include, inter alia, The White House, NASA, World Economic Forum, State of Utah, O'Reilly Media, Hewlett -Packard and IBM. The current investors include Venrock, David Siminoff and Dev Khare.

3 May 2012 Slideshare was acquired by LinkedIn for an estimated 118.75 million U.S. dollars. The CEO and co-founder of SlideShare, Rashmi Sinha, has been named among the "World's Top 10 Women Influencers in Web 2.0 " by Fast Company.