Posts Tagged ‘acquisition’
@Moodlerooms adds deep experience to its leadership team
Moodlerooms, Baltimore-based Moodle Partner has added a new CFO, CTO and VP of Products and Strategy in Todd Frager, David Mills and Phillip Miller, respectively. Both Mills and Miller come from ANGEL LMS (acquired by Blackboard in 2009), the former as a founder of the company. Frager comes from the recently acquired Spectrum K12 special [...]
What’s the #Blackboard Acquisition Mean for Moodle?
In the LMS world, there hasn't been bigger news lately than the acquisition of Blackboard by Providence Equity Partners this past July 1, 2011 . The 1.6 billion dollar acquisition of the worlds largest LMS corporation caused a flurry of conjecture and forecasting, but what does it mean for the Moodle community? By and large, it doesn't mean [...]
Breaking: Dimdim to discontinue free accounts and open source project in acquisition
Great news for Dimdim staff and founders, but bad news perhaps for most of Dimdim's paid and open source users: Dimdim was acquired by Salesforce.com according to a recent announcement. Dimdim has been available as a Moodle integration for several years and is the first conference tool that I cut my teeth on in 2007. It had been a viable open [...]
Opinion – Just Thinking… (what if Moodle bought #Blackboard?)
This is a guest post that originally was posted as a comment to MoodleNews' coverage of the Motley Fool article concerning Blackboard and it's acquisitions history/future (http://www.moodlenews.com/2010/blackboard-and-moodle-acquisition/). The following is cross-posted at http://pmasson.wordpress.com and is written by Patrick Masson. [...]
Opinion – #Blackboard’s Moodle acquisition hopes?
have to wonder if the company isn't getting ready for some grand, expensive gesture. Main rival Moodle would be too expensive and might raise eyebrows in the government's antitrust offices, but privately held Desire2Learn or Pearson division eCollege could be tasty tack-on targets. That's all grand but Blackboard's stock fell because of a [...]
Update on the #Blackboard Acquisition and Moodle
Read our previous post on the Blackboard acquisition, including the invaluable comments, here: http://www.moodlenews.com/2010/what-the-blackboard-acquisition-means-for-moodle/ There's an update from Blackboard on the public response to the Blackboard acquisition of Wimba and Elluminate from Ray Henderson, President of Blackboard Learn, I love [...]
