The press coverage of LinkedIn’s recent acquisition of Lynda.com for $1.5 billion has largely overlooked a key aspect of the deal. Yes, it integrates learning into a powerful social media site. Yes, ...

In its biggest acquisition yet, LinkedIn will bring Lynda.com's library of online courses to the professional network's 300 million members. LinkedIn said Thursday it plans to purchase online training ...

It was announced on Friday that Linkedin made a surprise purchase of the online learning website Lynda.com for a cool $1.5 billion. While many in the tech industry scratched their heads over the ...

Lynda.com founders Lynda Weinman and Bruce Heavin built a beloved powerhouse for self-improvement. LinkedIn today said it will buy Lynda.com for $1.5 billion in a deal that's a combination of cash (52 ...

LinkedIn’s $1.5 billion acquisition of Lynda.com is the fourth-largest deal in social media history. It stands to become a major boon to LinkedIn’s future, but first it must integrate the educational ...

All college students in one Canadian province will receive access to Lynda.com courses. The Ontario government has signed an agreement with LinkedIn, a Microsoft company that owns Lynda.com, to ...

LinkedIn just purchased Lynda.com, an online learning company, for $1.5 billion, the company announced on Thursday. Founded in 1995 by Lynda Weinman and her husband, Bruce Heavin, Lynda.com lets users ...

Lynda.com, the online education platform that raised its first and only round of $103 million about a year ago, is today announcing an acquisition that will further Lynda.com’s reach with developers ...

Imagine a website that publishes such useful information that about a million people have been willing to pay a $25 monthly access fee. No, it's not The New York Times – which only has about 100,000 ...

LinkedIn Corp. has agreed to purchase online learning company lynda.com for about $1.5 billion, the largest acquisition yet for the popular professional networking site. Mountain View, Calif.,-based ...

Online learning platform Lynda.com has begun notifying its 9.5 million users that it recently experienced unauthorised third party access to a database that contains contact information of account ...

As Ned Flanders would say, education in the U.S. is in “a dilly of a pickle.” At the risk of sounding like a broken record, the cost of education has become unsustainable. Student loan debt is over $1 ...