Online education specialist Lynda.com appears to have put its recent $103 million funding round to good use, after it announced it has acquired online video training rival Video2brain to further boost ...

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 ...

LinkedIn was already a place for tracking skills. Now it’s becoming a place for acquiring them. The company’s agreement to buy online training site Lynda.com for $1.5 billion, announced this morning, ...

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, ...

Online training company Lynda.com, owned by LinkedIn (which itself is being acquired by Microsoft), has suffered a security incident which saw a user database accessed by unauthorised parties. The ...