ProQuest to buy Voyager Expanded Learning
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ANN ARBOR, Mich. ProQuest in Ann Arbor has agreed to buy Voyager Expanded Learning in a 360 (m) million dollar cash and stock deal.
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If you're using FlickrFan, you should have a copy of podcatcher.root in your Tool folder. If not now, at the top of the next hour (launch the OPML app so it can do the update). I want to get started with a small group of people, develop features, and then figure out how to broaden it, if that turns out to be the right thing to do. For now, I just want a testbed to develop, and a group of interested users. I've put together a brief cheat sheet for FlickrFan users. http://codecasting.org/podcatcher/00001.html  If you have a question please post it there and we'll try to get you the answer. Hope it works, and hope you like it.
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ObjectStore suitably EdgeXtended by acquisition
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HP World Free Alpha upgrades to stem defections
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(Source: Adobe) eLearning technologies have reached maturity and companies are rapidly reaping real benefits and savings. Learn ways to create digital learning experiences that build interest and motivation while inviting active participation.
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Eurekster, Inc., which wasone of the first community based social search engines, has secured $5.5 million in a Series B financing. The funding, from Technology Venture Partners (TVP) of Australia and Transcosmos Investments of Japan with the participation of the private investors who provided the company&#8217;s initial Series A financing, will enable Eurekster to accelerate [...]
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TomTom, the world's No. 1 maker of personal navigation devices, has increased its bid to $4.2 billion in cash for digital map provider Tele Atlas. TomTom announced it would immediately begin purchasing and acquiring 25.8 million Tele Atlas shares, which represent about 28.3 percent of the software provider's share capital.
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ST. GEORGE, Utah, May 24  /PRNewswire/ -- E-learning has found a faster way to your desktop! LearnKey Elements announces true "on-demand" access to various video learning elements from our award-winning training.
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Educate Inc., the parent of Sylvan Learning Centers and Catapult Learning, said yesterday that it had agreed to purchase Gateway Learning Corp., which owns the Hooked on Phonics brand.
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Open Text's major software acquisition takes flight.
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(InfoWorld) - BMC Software is buying privately held ProactiveNet as a way to flesh out the analytics portion of its BSM (business service management) software. The systems management software vendor started talking about BSM several years ago, defining it as a set of products designed to help companies better tie IT services to their business objectives by automating management processes and workflows. Over time, BSM has become a key piece of BMC's business. The software company is set to announce its fourth-quarter results for fiscal 2007 after markets close on Tuesday afternoon. BMC announced its plan to buy ProactiveNet on Tuesday, but declined to provide any financial details about the deal. Pending ProactiveNet shareholder approval and other closing conditions, BMC hopes to complete the purchase within the next 30 days. The two companies already had a technology alliance in place. ProactiveNet's eponymous software allows customers to collect data from their IT systems, which is then analyzed and monitored to detect any unusual activity. The software can then alert IT staff to a potential problem as well as provide suggestions about how to fix the issue. ProactiveNet can also link service-level agreements and business metrics to the performance of IT systems in real-time. BMC believes the combination of ProactiveNet and its own performance transaction and event management software may prove timely. In the wake of much consolidation in that market segment, BMC thinks many customers may be re-evaluating their current vendor and ready to migrate to its offerings. BMC's prime competitors are CA,Â Hewlett-Packard, and IBM. Founded in 1997, ProactiveNet has its headquarters in Santa Clara, California, and employs over 120 staff in the U.S. and its offices in India and the U.K. The company's customers include ETrade, Hoover's Online, MoneyGram and McKesson. ProactiveNet has raised over $50 million in funding from a variety of venture capital companies and also counts Sun MicrosystemsÂ and Nissho Electronics as its corporate investors. BMC expects to take on all ProactiveNet staff. Â
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BitTorrent, the company behind the file sharing protocol of the same name, has used some of the $25 million it recently received from investors to purchase the popular uTorrent application. uTorrent is one of the top BitTorrent download programs for Windows.
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Google Inc. is expanding its territory from bytes to books. The world's largest Internet search engine said yesterday it will soon begin a program to index books and bound periodicals in the libraries of Harvard University.
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Ziff Davis - Industry analysts say there are many pluses to BT buying Infonet Services, including giving BT more resources to be a more effective global networking player.
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New acquisitions and products should increase sales.
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Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c60734)  has announced the addition of "2007 -2008  Broadcast/Pro Video Marketplace Macro Overview Report"  to their offering.  An unbelievable whirlwind is hitting the television/video industry.
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Germany gets a green light from the European Union to give $165 million for research on internet search-engine tech that could challenge Google. The Theseus project would develop an advanced multimedia search engine to translate, identify and index images, audio and text.