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    Leena Rao
    April 26th, 2011

    VMware Acquires Online Presentation Application SlideRocket

    VMware has just announced the acquisition of online presentation application SlideRocket. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.

    SlideRocket, which has raised $7 million in funding, is a cloud-based online presentation application that produces slideshows that rival PowerPoint. More than 20,000 customers and 300,000 users leverage Slide Rocket to more effectively build, deliver and share… → Read More

    Leena Rao
    July 20th, 2009

    SlideRocket Raises $5 Million For Online Presentation Platform

    SlideRocket, a startup that helps create online presentations, has raised $5 million in Series B funding led by Azure Capital Partners with Hummer Winblad Venture Partners participating. This new round of funding brings SlideRocket’s total funding to $7 million. The company also announced that Chuck Dietrich, former General Manager and Vice President at Salesforce.com, has joined the company as… → Read More

    Robin Wauters
    June 25th, 2009

    AudioMicro Partners With SlideRocket, Revamps Music Licensing Platform

    Stock music and sounds effects marketplace AudioMicro has overhauled its web service to make it easier for users to discover and license stock audio material.

    In addition, the startup is announcing a partnership with online presentation software maker SlideRocket, which basically means its library of stock music and royalty-free sound effects will now be included in the SlideRocket marketplace… → Read More

    Jason Kincaid
    October 28th, 2008

    SlideRocket's Impressive Online Presentation App Hits General Release

    SlideRocket, an online presentation application that produces slideshows that rival (and in many cases, better) PowerPoint, has launched to the general public. The site had previously been available under a public beta, and is now removing the beta tag and introducing a set of pricing tiers along with some impressive new features.

    Since we last wrote about SlideRocket the site has introduced… → Read More

    Mark Hendrickson
    March 19th, 2008

    SlideRocket Presentation Web App Enters Private Beta; Get Your Invite Here

    SlideRocket is another Flash-based presentation app that wants to recreate PowerPoint in the browser and take advantage of the web’s sharing and mashup capabilities. There are a handful of companies striving to be the presentation tool for the cloud era, including Google, Zoho, Empressr and a Y Combinator startup called 280 North that we covered last week. Ask the guys behind SlideRocket… → Read More