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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Jeff Weiner, chief executive of LinkedIn. LinkedIn, the professional social network, announced today that it’s acquiring the online education company Lynda.com for $1.5 billion. Lynda.com, an Inc.

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 ...

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’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 ...