In November, Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation made its first foray into the US education space with the $360m (£228m) purchase of Wireless Generation. Dame Marjorie Scardino, the chief executive of Pearson, was not fazed. On discovering that Mr Murdoch could become a rival to another of her businesses (News Corp’s Harper Collins is already a […]
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Pearson buys Schoolnet for $230m: Schoolnet, which was founded in 1998, offers a system for allowing teachers to deliver personalised learning for students and serves more than 5 million US pupils through partnerships with states and districts.
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SuccessFactors, Inc. (NASDAQ: SFSF), the global leader in business execution cloud-based SaaS software, has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Plateau, the leading learning management system (LMS), a Next Generation Portal technology, and CaaS- Content as a Service. This acquisition forms a symbiotic combination with SuccessFactors’ acquisition of social video mobile learning provider Jambok.
The developer of Canvas, a cloud-based learning management system used by more than 30 educational institutions as an alternative to Blackboard, has raised a second round of funding from OpenView Venture Partners, EPIC Ventures, TomorrowVentures and Tim Draper of Draper Fisher Jurvetson, peHUB reports. Infrastructure was founded in 2008 at Brigham Young University. Instructure makes
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Technology Crossover Ventures to Invest $125M in K12 Inc.
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D.C.-based education software company Blackboard Inc. says it has received unsolicited takeover offers and says it’s considering them. Its stock rallied as much as 35 percent in Tuesday trading. Blackboard has hired Barclays Capital as its financial adviser and says it is evaluating the offers as well as other strategic alternatives to enhance shareholder value.
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Blackboard (NASDAQ: BBBB) today announced that it has retained Barclays Capital as its financial advisor in response to receiving unsolicited, non-binding proposals to acquire the company.
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