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For a long time, LinkedIn worked towards becoming the most reliable way of making professional connections online. This wouldn’t have been possible without the help of a few companies they acquired along the way.
Over the years, LinkedIn has expanded itself by acquiring companies that had the potential to help them grow and improve their services. Here we will discuss some of the most notable business acquisitions LinkedIn has made.
mSpoke
ChoiceVendor
Also in 2010, LinkedIn acquired San Francisco-based startup ChoiceVendor for $3.9 million. This startup provides ratings and reviews of B2B service providers in more than 70 categories across the entire country.
About the acquisition, LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner said: “Our acquisition of ChoiceVendor is right in line with our top priority to build a world-class team at LinkedIn. We’ve admired the work that Yan-David, Rama, and the talented ChoiceVendor team have done for some time now and are excited to have them join us, especially given their highly relevant work experience.”
Yan-David Erlich is the co-founder and chief executive of ChoiceVendor, while Rama Ranganath is the VP of Engineering. Ranganath was an early engineer on Google’s AdSense team before co-founding ChoiceVendor, while Erlich was an entrepreneur.
CardMunch
Connected
IndexTank
Rapportive
SlideShare
SlideShare is a hosting service for professional content such as infographics, documents, and videos, wherein users can upload files either publicly or privately in many different formats. Slideshare was acquired by LinkedIn in 2012 for $119 million.
SlideShare content can be viewed either on the site itself, on handheld devices, or even embedded on other sites. It is described as something similar to YouTube, but for slideshows. SlideShare has about 38 million registered users and gets an estimated 80 million unique visitors per month.
Pulse
Pulse was acquired by LinkedIn back in 2013 for $90 million. This popular newsreader for web and mobile was acquired because LinkedIn wanted the site to “be the definitive professional publishing platform – where all professionals come to consume content and where publishers come to share their content.”
Pulse started as an iPad app when it was founded in 2010 by Akshay Kothari and Ankit Gupta as students at Stanford University.
Bright.com
Newsle
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