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2012-05-10

Top news today: LinkedIn Is Buying SlideShare For $119M

 
 
 
 
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LinkedIn Is Buying SlideShare For $119M
 
 
businessinsider.com - 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. Here's how CEO Jeff Weiner justified the purchase:
 
 
 
 
 
 
Cloud is a corporate strategy, not a tactical solution
 
 
gigaom.com - Many of us are looking at the adoption of cloud as just another technology, and are leaving decisions on how to adopt, own, and manage the cloud up to engineers. But acquiring a cloud management platform is not an engineering...
 
 
 
 
 
 
Don't Cry (at the Office)
 
 
online.wsj.com - Emotional displays are frowned up, but it's unhealthful to just bottle up your feelings. Experts say you should be attuned to your emotional triggers so responses can be managed for more productive outcomes.
 
 
 
 
 
 
IBM's 'building whisperer' sees retrofit boom
 
 
reuters.com - America's skyscrapers, many built before World War Two, are showing their age. IBM's building whisperer, Dave Bartlett, believes many of these buildings could use a diet.
 
 
 
 
 
 
'Hire me!' billboard leads to job for 22-year-old
 
 
msnbc.msn.com - The investment paid off for a 22-year-old man who put his face on an electronic billboard in Minneapolis. Bennett Olson said in an email Monday he has taken a job.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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