LinkedIn

LinkedIn just announced plans to buy SlideShare for $119 million. It will be 45% cash and 55% stock.

SlideShare allows users to upload documents to the web and have them embedded all over the place. How does it fit at LinkedIn? Here's what CEO Jeff Weiner said in a press release explaining the move:

LinkedIn feels like a more pristine social network than most. It dubs itself “the world’s largest professional network on the Internet” with 150 million members as of February — and 27 million of those being “decision makers”. We post family photos and cat videos on Facebook. We await a call from a recruiter and share industry articles on LinkedIn.