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August 2013

Twitter launches Twitter University to build better employees, buys company to help

Kris Kesiak Photography August 13, 2013 12:17 PM John Koetsier Add a Comment inShare22 Twitter announced a new internal learning initiative today, Twitter University, to give its employees better skills. And the fast-growing social network bought a company to help make it happen. “We want Twitter to be the best place in the world for […]

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In Digital Transition, Electronic Media Soars as Textbooks Lose Footing in PreK-12 Market, According to Latest Report by Simba Information

The PreK-12 publishing market is in the midst of a transition as schools invest more in a digital future and instructional software providers embrace new opportunities with the rising appeal in digital courseware. The PreK-12 market shows signs of strong growth for digital courseware, which generated sales of $1.2 billion, and captured market share of

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Amazon restricts students from bringing certain textbook rentals…

August 16, 2013 By Lauren Ingeno Students who rent textbooks through Amazon.com’s Warehouse Deals, Inc. may be unknowingly agreeing to an unusual condition: They are not permitted to cross state borders with their books. According to the Textbook Rental Terms and Conditions page on Amazon.com, when renting through Warehouse Deals, which is an Amazon subsidiary,

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Bezos’ Purchase of the Post Leaves Graham With Kaplan For-Profit College

Posted: 08/06/2013 2:06 pm Among the many questions raised by Jeff Bezos’s purchase of the Washington Post newspaper is: What will become of the rest of the old Washington Post Company, publicly traded and run by the Graham family? The fact is that the Post Company was already dominated, in several respects, by its lucrative

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