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Blackboard Absorbs Edline, Keeps Product Line Intact

By Dian Schaffhauser 10/05/11 A day after its acquisition of Blackboard was completed, Providence Equity Partners has begun leveraging its multiple investments in education technology. Two of its companies–Blackboard and Edline–have announced an immediate merging. Edline will become another division in Blackboard’s portfolio. Both companies sell learning management and mass notification products to the K-12 […]

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Blackboard and Edline combined – make the Grade!

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Like Edline, Blackboard can also be used by parents to keep track of what’s going on in the school and the classroom. Depending on how well teachers embrace the technology, Blackboard and Edline can do a lot more than help parents keep track of whether their kids are turning in homework.

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Providence Equity Partners Completes Acquisition of Blackboard Inc.

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— Blackboard stockholders to receive $45.00 per share in cash — Transaction valued at approximately $1.64 billion in enterprise value — Blackboard to become a privately held company WASHINGTON, Oct. 4, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — Blackboard Inc. (NASDAQ: BBBB) today announced the completion of its acquisition by an investor group led by affiliates of Providence Equity

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Blackboard increases credit line for Edline merger/acquisition

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Blackboard is expected to be merged with Edline LLC, another educational software firm. Providence purchased Edline in 2009.
Standard & Poor’s cut its corporate credit rating on Blackboard, to B+ from BB-, after the acquisition was announced.

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Blackboard: A Tale Of 2 Companies

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Despite actively marketing Blackboard 9.1, many university technology administrators view Blackboard as having skimped on research and development to focus on growth via acquiring LMS competitors like WebCT and Angel at the expense of expanding and refining their products. (There is also a mounting body of snafus that has given momentum to an anti-Blackboard movement on the Internet and among university technology staffers.)

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Blackboard Absorbs Edline, Keeps Product Line Intact

Blackboard and Edline combined – make the Grade!

Providence Equity Partners Completes Acquisition of Blackboard Inc.

Blackboard increases credit line for Edline merger/acquisition

Blackboard: A Tale Of 2 Companies

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