May
Yahoo buys Tumblr, brings sexy back
This morning, the rumours were confirmed: Yahoo has secured a $1.1bn deal to buy the fantastic blogging platform Tumblr. While Yahoo certainly weren’t the first suitors to knock at Tumblr’s door, there were apparently no competing bids for Tumblr’s acquisition. Read More
May
Google Play for Education
The Google I/O conference took place in San Francisco this week and one of the most interesting announcements is a dedicated Play Store for Education. Google Play for Education will contain educational apps that are recommended by teachers and will be integrated with Read More
May
Pearson’s myCloud wins Ovum award for innovation
Double fist pumps and air guitar action abound in our myCloud team this week, as they celebrate landing the prestigious ‘Best Implementation of Infrastructure Transformation’ On the Radar award at the Ovum Industry Congress. myCloud allows our people to use Read More
May
A look inside India 2.0
British broadsheet The Telegraph has been visiting India’s ‘temple of technology’ in a bid to understand how the country’s huge information technology ambitions are thriving in amongst its poverty problems. In a land where one third of the population is Read More
May
Pearson grows higher ed online learning program partnerships
Pearson has partnered with Columbia University’s Center for Economy and Ecology in Society to extend its teacher professional development program. The program was orginally designed for middle-school teachers in New York, but by taking it online, the program will be Read More
May
Driver’s ed for the social web
Homepage is a new Kickstarter project that educates both children and parents on a child’s first foray into the social web. The online curriculum focuses on online safety, to counteract issues such as cyberbullying, academic dishonesty as Read More
May
TechCrunch and Udemy join forces
TechCrunch and Udemy have created a new online learning platform, CrunchU, which will offer 30 courses from great minds in the tech and startup space. Courses range from web design, to sales skills and raising money for startups. Ned Desmond, Read More
May
Africa’s tech hubs
Business Insider recently named Uganda, Ghana, and Tanzania among the world’s fastest growing economies, with developing countries joining the ranks of “industrialised” nations within the next decade. Take a look at this digital map of Africa’s Read More
May
Doug Schmidt on using technology to make education more effective
After a rousing introduction from IBM Fellow and wonderful compere Jerry Cuomo, Doug Schmidt, chief enterprise architect here at Pearson, took the stage on the Technology in Motion day of the all-singing, all-dancing mega IBM Impact conference in Vegas. We’re Read More
May
Reporting back from AngelHack
We’re bringing you another guest post from our omnipresent Plug and Play team, this time from the Pearson co-sponsored London leg of AngelHack, the biggest hackathon competition in the world. Involving 6,000 hackers in 30 cities, the London hack ran Read More