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Leapfrog Announces Second Quarter 2009 Financial Results
LeapFrog Enterprises, Inc. — Monday, August 03, 2009
Net sales for the quarter were $49.4 million, down 27.7% compared to $68.3 million in the same quarter a year ago. Gross margin for the quarter was 37.9%, compared to a gross margin of 39.3% a year ago. Net loss for the quarter was $12.2 million, an improvement of 40.6% compared to a net loss of $20.6 million a year ago. Read More »
Online Sales Leader Journey Education Marketing, Inc. and Pixar Animation Studios Announce RenderMan® Sales Collaboration
Journey Education Marketing, Inc. — Sunday, August 02, 2009
JourneyEd announced a major collaboration with Pixar Animation Studios. As the leading online marketer of software to K-12 and college education, JourneyEd will market and sell RenderMan®, Pixar’s professional rendering software, through its website, to high school and college students, educators, schools, and higher education institutions at attractive academic prices. Read More »
Scientific Learning Reports Second Quarter Results
Scientific Learning Corporation — Saturday, August 01, 2009
Total revenues decreased 21% to $10.6 million, total booked sales decreased 10% to $13.0 million and K-12 booked sales decreased 8% to $11.7 million. Gross profit decreased 23% to $8.1 million and gross margin decreased to 75.9% of total revenues from 77.4% of total revenues. Read More »
KnowledgeWorks and New Technology Foundation Will Combine To Advance Learner-Centered Education Nationwide
KnowledgeWorks — Thursday, July 30, 2009
KnowledgeWorks and New Technology Foundation (New Tech) today announced plans to combine the two organizations. New Technology Foundation will become a division of KnowledgeWorks, supporting the rapid expansion of an innovative, learner-centered network of high schools nationwide. Read More »
Open Administration for Schools Makes the Grade and Joins click2try(TM) Online Catalog of Education Software
click2try — Tuesday, July 28, 2009
click2try today announced the addition of Open Administration for Schools to its online catalog of virtualized Open Source applications. A Community site, click2try makes it easy for users to try applications for free and use by subscription. Read More »
CEO/President Lane Rankin Launches Illuminate Education, Inc.
Illuminate Education — Monday, July 27, 2009
Rankin, The former founder of Achieve Data Solutions (ADS) and its products DataDirector, Iris™ and Focus™, further announced the repurchase of Iris and Focus from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. The two dynamic products and their respective customer bases are now reunited with their original founders. Read More »
CDI Reports 49.6% Revenue Increase; Recertified Technology Is Having a Record Year
CDI — Tuesday, July 21, 2009
CDI, North America's largest supplier of recertified, brand name computers to the educational market, reported a 49.6% percent increase in second quarter sales over the same period last year. Growth for the first half compared to the same period in 2008 was 39.8%, accelerating to 49.6% in the second quarter. Read More »
Shakespeare Squared and Infinamic Announce Performance Marketing Partnership
Shakespeare Squared — Tuesday, July 21, 2009
Shakespeare Squared announces a joint venture with Indianapolis, Indiana based Infinamic to be Infinitely Squared. In efforts to join the companies, Shakespeare Squared hopes to create a new standard for performance-based marketing with premium quality content for Infinamic's services. Read More »
The McGraw-Hill Companies Creates Achievement-Focused PreK-12 Education Group To Help Students Develop 21st Century Skills
The McGraw-Hill Companies — Thursday, July 16, 2009
The McGraw-Hill Companies announced that McGraw-Hill Education has created a comprehensive, achievement-focused PreK-12 organization. ... This new approach strengthens MHE's ability to address the changing needs of educators and better positions the company to capitalize on near- and long-term growth opportunities. Read More »
Encyclopaedia Britannica Is a “Superbrand”
Encyclopaedia Britannica — Thursday, July 16, 2009
Calling Encyclopaedia Britannica “this year’s notable high achiever” in their annual survey of brand equity, researchers in the United Kingdom yesterday dubbed the educational publisher a “superbrand” by virtue of its sterling reputation among consumers. Read More »
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