{"id":51312,"date":"2015-07-29T12:04:57","date_gmt":"2015-07-29T16:04:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=51312"},"modified":"2015-07-29T12:05:11","modified_gmt":"2015-07-29T16:05:11","slug":"exclusive-education-company-blackboard-seeks-3-billion-sale-sources-reuters-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2015\/07\/29\/exclusive-education-company-blackboard-seeks-3-billion-sale-sources-reuters-com\/","title":{"rendered":"Exclusive: Education company Blackboard seeks $3 billion sale &#8211; sources [reuters.com]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article-headline\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2015\/07\/28\/us-blackboard-providence-idUSKCN0Q226R20150728\" target=\"_blank\">Exclusive: Education company Blackboard seeks $3 billion sale &#8211; sources<\/a> <\/strong>&#8212; from reuters.com<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-headline\"><em>Excerpt:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span class=\"articleLocatio&lt;\/span&gt;n\">Blackboard Inc, a U.S. software company that provides learning tools for high school and university classrooms, is exploring a sale that it hopes could value it at as much as $3 billion, including debt, according to people familiar with the matter.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Blackboard&#8217;s majority owner, private equity firm Providence Equity Partners LLC, has hired Deutsche Bank AG (<span id=\"symbol_DBKGn.DE_0\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/finance\/stocks\/overview?symbol=DBKGn.DE\">DBKGn.DE<\/a><\/span>) and <a class=\"vglnk\" href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/finance\/stocks\/overview?symbol=BAC\" rel=\"nofollow\">Bank of America Corp<\/a> (<span id=\"symbol_BAC.N_1\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/finance\/stocks\/overview?symbol=BAC.N\">BAC.N<\/a><\/span>) to run an auction for the company, the people said this week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-headline\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive: Education company Blackboard seeks $3 billion sale &#8211; sources &#8212; from reuters.com Excerpt: Blackboard Inc, a U.S. software company that provides learning tools for high school and university classrooms, is exploring a sale that it hopes could value it at as much as $3 billion, including debt, according to people familiar with the matter. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,32,367],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cmslms","category-education-technology","category-vendors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51312"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51315,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51312\/revisions\/51315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}