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McGraw-Hill sets plan to split into 2 companies
McGraw-Hill Cos. will split up into two public companies with one focused on education and the other centered on markets, featuring the Standard & Poor's unit, reports Forbes.…
AT&T, DOJ square off in a battle with implications for schools
The Justice Department’s rejection of AT&T’s proposed purchase of T-Mobile USA will test new federal guidelines on challenging mergers, as ... Read more
Sony, Toshiba, Hitachi join forces in displays
The display businesses of three major Japanese electronics makers are joining forces to become more competitive in small and medium-sized panels—a sector that's expected to grow because of…
New York spikes education software deal with Wireless Generation
New York’s comptroller has spiked a $27 million contract with an education software firm owned by Rupert Murdoch because of the media mogul’s phone hacking scandal in Great…
Jobs resigns as Apple CEO; educators ponder his ed-tech legacy
Though Steve Jobs wasn’t at Apple’s helm during the twelve years the company established itself as the leader in educational technology in the 1980s and 90s, it was…
Hewlett-Packard to end mobile businesses
In a dramatic reshuffling, HP is discontinuing its tablet computer and smart-phone products—just a few weeks after the company touted its new TouchPad tablet at the nation’s largest…
Scandal casts cloud over News Corp.’s ed-tech business
The phone-hacking scandal that erupted over Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. in the United Kingdom last month took a new turn this week when the heads of the New…
Apple will sell a sub $1,000 iMac for education
Apple and education have always gone hand in hand, from the first Apple IIs gracing libraries across the nation to the countless aging machines now in place at…
Integrity of ED’s for-profit college rulemaking under scrutiny
Did Wall Street traders influence the development of new rules governing for-profit colleges, or benefit from inside information about these rules before it became public? Those are questions…
Wikipedia says it’s losing contributors
Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia that is written entirely by volunteers and allows anyone to edit its entries, is losing contributors, its founder complained Aug. 4.
Apollo Group to acquire Carnegie Learning for $75M
Apollo Group Inc., the nation's largest for-profit college chain and owner of the online University of Phoenix, said Aug. 2 that it has agreed to acquire Carnegie Learning…
Jana, Ontario teachers buy stake in McGraw-Hill
Activist hedge fund Jana Partners said Monday that it has teamed up with the Ontario Teachers Pension Plan Board to buy a 5.2 percent, $531 million stake in…
New Blackboard notifications: Customizable, quick, and mobile
Students already inundated with eMails and texts to their smart phones now can decide when they get campus messages blasted out to the student body using Blackboard Inc.’s…
Groupon, Chicago Public Schools partner to give school supplies to low-income students
One of Chicago's most exciting new start-ups is partnering with its home town to help out low-income public school students, the Huffington Post reports.
Ex-schools chief emerges as unlikely Murdoch ally
Joel I. Klein, the former New York City schools chancellor, was in a tricky position, reports the New York Times.
Critics: Murdoch-affiliated Wireless Generation should lose $27 million contract from Education Dept.
The state Education Department should reconsider the $27 million no-bid contract it awarded a firm connected to Rupert Murdoch's scandal-scarred News Corp. empire, critics charged yesterday, according to…
Obama meets ATT, Time Warner Cable CEOs on education
President Barack Obama held a roundtable discussion with business leaders including Time Warner Cable Inc. Chief Executive Officer Glenn Britt, AT&T Inc. CEO Randall Stephenson, and AOL Inc.…
Murdoch education affiliate’s $2.7 million consulting contract approved by NYC
The New York City Comptroller’s office has approved a $2.7 million consulting contract with Wireless Generation--an education technology company purchased by Rupert Murdoch last November--the Huffington Post has…
Blackboard reassures education customers after acquisition
Educational software maker Blackboard Inc. is being taken private for $1.64 billion in cash by an investor group led by affiliates of Providence Equity Partners, and a Blackboard…
Wal-Mart’s motives for giving $25 million to students draw criticism
Wal-Mart Stores Inc and its foundation said on Thursday that it had committed $25 million to help provide food, education and jobs for children during school summer break,…
Video: Innovators present their ideas on how to energize education
In a recent story, we reported on how nearly two dozen people with big ideas for education received business advice as part of Kauffman Labs’ endeavor to spur…
Apple’s iCloud could help make digital instruction easier
Apple CEO Steve Jobs re-emerged from his latest medical leave June 6 to show off the company’s latest innovations, which include a new cloud-based storage service that could…
Microsoft: Ballmer misspoke on Windows 8
Microsoft has rushed to clear up Steve-Ballmer-created confusion over Windows 8, after the CEO seemingly announced that the new OS is coming in 2012 on Monday, Tech Radar…
Former Circle System execs charged with defrauding schools of millions
Two former executives of a Pennsylvania athletic equipment supplier were arrested Wednesday on charges that they fraudulently collected millions of dollars from more than 100 schools, reports the…
Massachusetts joins Kaplan investigations
Massachusetts is the latest state to scrutinize The Washington Post Co.’s Kaplan education division, reports the South Florida Business Journal.
Microsoft agrees to buy Skype for $8.5B
Microsoft has agreed to buy the popular internet telephone service Skype for $8.5 billion in the biggest deal in the software maker's 36-year history, the Associated Press reports.
How online education could stop the higher-ed bubble from bursting
Low-cost online courses could help higher education from becoming the next economic bubble that bursts and inflicts fiscal pain on institutions, investors, and students, said educational technology experts…
Pearson buys Schoolnet for $230 million
Pearson PLC, publisher of the Financial Times and Penguin books and a major player in the ed-tech market, has agreed to buy the educational technology company Schoolnet for…
Educators disappointed with Cisco’s camera flip
Cisco Systems Inc., one of the titans of the technology industry, on April 12 said it is killing the Flip Video, the most popular video camera in the…
Deal to combine AT&T, T-Mobile raises questions
