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, ...

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Sometimes being first to market makes you feel old. At the recent Education Innovation Summit in Scottsdale, Ariz. Lynda Weinman and Bruce Heavin, the husband-and-wife team of the online ...

Lynda.com has launched a program called Learning Paths to help you land your next job, curating its courses by specific job titles. The idea is to give you a starting point to learn more about a ...

Forty years ago, the United States government spent $16 billion on workforce and job training programs. Today, it spends less than half that amount. It’s up to the private sector to fill the gap. One ...

In its biggest acquisition yet, LinkedIn will bring Lynda.com's library of online courses to the professional network's 300 million members. Lance Whitney Contributing Writer Lance Whitney is a ...

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 ...

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 has temporarily delayed planned changes to Lynda.com, a popular education-video library the company bought in 2015 for $1.5 billion, after libraries around the country raised privacy concerns ...

Considering her Hollywood childhood, let alone her corporate label, Lynda Weinman’s aversion to fame seems surprising. “It’s really my least favorite thing about all this,” said Weinman this past ...

Online personal and professional continuing education company lynda.com has raised $186 million at a roughly $1 billion valuation to go shopping for education technology companies. It’s the second ...

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 ...