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 ...

Considering her Hollywood childhood, let alone her corporate label, Lynda Weinman’s aversion to fame seems surprising. “It’s really my least favorite thing about all this,” said Weinman this past ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...