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Blackboard Acquires Terriblyclever to Support Mobile Education
Blackboard Inc. — Tuesday, July 14, 2009
Blackboard Inc. announced a major step in its efforts to support students' mobile lifestyle with the acquisition of Terriblyclever Design, LLC, makers of MobilEdu(TM), the category defining suite of iPhone(TM) and mobile Web applications for education. Read More »
Pearson Creates Education Innovation Fund with Revolution Learning
Pearson — Monday, July 13, 2009
Pearson announced that it is partnering with Revolution Learning to accelerate its aim to identify, develop, and scale the next generation of learning technologies, school management and organization innovations. Pearson has invested in a $10 million innovation venture fund managed by Revolution Learning. Read More »
Gale and K12 Inc. Announce Agreement to Create and Distribute New World Language-Learning Products
— Saturday, July 11, 2009
Gale, part of Cengage Learning, and K12 Inc. announced an agreement to develop and distribute a new line of world language-learning products to libraries. Power-Glide Language Courses, Inc. (known as powerspeaK12), a subsidiary of K12 Inc., will develop web-based language courses, which Gale will distribute exclusively to the library market. Read More »
Nibi Software Group Secures Funding, Adds Executive Expertise
Nibi Software Group, Inc. — Wednesday, July 08, 2009
Nibi Software Group, Inc., the provider of next-generation collaborative learning solutions, today announced that Mary K. Budge has joined the company as Chief Operating Officer (COO), and that it has received an unspecified amount of seed funding from a Vancouver area investor. Read More »
Pennsylvania Virtual Charter School, K12 Inc. Sign New 10-Year Curriculum and Materials Contract
K12 Inc. — Monday, July 06, 2009
The Pennsylvania Virtual Charter School and K12 Inc. today announced a new 10-year partnership agreement where K12 will provide its renowned high quality curriculum, content, and instructional tools to the public charter school through 2019. Read More »
Office Depot Is Helping Teachers Go Back to School Smarter with New Teacher Store Set at Retail Locations Nationwide
Office Depot — Monday, July 06, 2009
Office Depot® announced a new assortment of teaching products available at Office Depot retail store locations nationwide and online at www.officedepot.com. The new lineup features nearly 200 different products from Carson-Dellosa, Pacon, Paper Magic and Scholastic... Read More »
Premier Workplace Award Recognizes SchoolDude’s Decorated Legendary Customer Service Team
SchoolDude — Saturday, July 04, 2009
SchoolDude.com received the Customer Service Team of the Year award in the computer hardware, services and software category at the seventh annual American Business Awards. Read More »
U.S. Customers Continue To Make SMART the Number One Interactive Whiteboard Choice
SMART Technologies — Monday, June 29, 2009
SMART Technologies announces it continues to be the preferred choice for interactive whiteboard purchasers in the United States. In the first five months of 2009, from January to May, SMART sold nearly 65,000 SMART Board™ interactive whiteboards to U.S. customers, a 28 percent increase over sales in the same period last year. Read More »
SIIA Employs EDRoom To Gather Feedback from Innovation Incubator Participants
EDRoom — Saturday, June 27, 2009
The Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA), a trade association serving the software and digital content industry, took advantage of the EDRoom online discussion service to gather feedback from companies that recently participated in SIIA's annual Innovation Incubator Program (IIP). Read More »
Reader's Digest Sells Assets of Gareth Stevens Publishing
Reader's Digest Association, Inc. — Thursday, June 25, 2009
The Reader's Digest Association, Inc. (RDA) has reached agreement to sell the assets of Gareth Stevens, Inc., to Roger Rosen, owner and CEO of Rosen Publishing, and Gary Spears, a co-founder of Gareth Stevens in 1984. Terms of the agreement were not disclosed. Read More »
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