{"id":740492,"date":"2013-03-05T07:30:55","date_gmt":"2013-03-05T12:30:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/?p=616557"},"modified":"2013-03-05T07:30:55","modified_gmt":"2013-03-05T12:30:55","slug":"vmwares-sliderocket-finds-a-home-with-clearslide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/740492","title":{"rendered":"VMware\u2019s SlideRocket finds a home with ClearSlide"},"content":{"rendered":"

SlideRocket, the tool that lets marketing pros build slick multi-media presentations that kill PowerPoint ennui, now has a new home with ClearSlide. VMware bought SlideRocket just under 2 years ago<\/a> but signaled in December that it would offload it,<\/a> along with other non-core technologies.<\/p>

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ClearSlide CEO Al Lieb said that SlideRocket’s content creation technology — which targets marketing departments that need to churn out eye-grabbing presentations — fits nicely with ClearSlide’s more sales-oriented technologies that sell into enterprises.<\/p>

SlideRocket lets you start with either a blank template or a PowerPoint presentation and then add web animation, video and other perks, Lieb said in an interview. He said that most of the SlideRocket team will join ClearSlide — both are based in San Francisco.<\/p>

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SlideRocket claims 1 million individual users while ClearSlide, which sees itself as a more modern and mobile-device-friendly rival to Cisco’s Webex conferencing service, \u00a0sells at the corporate level and claims thousands of users.\u00a0ClearSlide netted $28 million in Series B funding<\/a> last August.<\/p>

When VMware bought SlideRocket, it positioned the product as a complement to\u00a0Zimbra, the email and collaboration software VMware purchased from Yahoo <\/a>in early 2010. So this deal begs the question: What’s next for Zimbra?<\/p>
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