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, ...

In its biggest acquisition yet, LinkedIn will bring Lynda.com's library of online courses to the professional network's 300 million members. LinkedIn said Thursday it plans to purchase online training ...

It was announced on Friday that Linkedin made a surprise purchase of the online learning website Lynda.com for a cool $1.5 billion. While many in the tech industry scratched their heads over the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

LinkedIn just purchased Lynda.com, an online learning company, for $1.5 billion, the company announced on Thursday. Founded in 1995 by Lynda Weinman and her husband, Bruce Heavin, Lynda.com lets users ...

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 ...

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 ...

Professional network LinkedIn is getting into the professional skills education market in a big way: The social company purchased Lynda.com, the online learning company founded in 1995 by technical ...

LinkedIn Corp. has agreed to purchase online learning company lynda.com for about $1.5 billion, the largest acquisition yet for the popular professional networking site. Mountain View, Calif.,-based ...