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Facebook to Join S&P 500 and 100 Indices

Arik Hesseldahl in News on December 11, 2013 at 2:48 pm PT

The news jolts Facebook shares after hours.

Look Who’s Taking Dell’s Spot on the S&P 500

Arik Hesseldahl in News on October 22, 2013 at 12:11 pm PT

Ending a 17-year run.

Rally Software Acquires Frequent Partner Agile Advantage

Arik Hesseldahl in General on August 7, 2012 at 7:07 am PT

A leader in so-called agile software development buys out a regular collaborator.

All Things Hired: Bonnie Cha Is Our Latest ATD Reviewer

Kara Swisher in News on April 23, 2012 at 1:01 pm PT

ATD adds another staffer to the team.

Publisher Terry McGraw on Steve Jobs and Digital Textbooks: “This Was His Vision”

Peter Kafka in Media on January 20, 2012 at 3:30 am PT

So will the McGraw-Hill CEO strike similar deals with Apple competitors like Amazon and Google? Good question.

Apple’s New Math. Or: Why a $15 E-Book Equals a $75 Paper Book.

Peter Kafka in Media on January 19, 2012 at 8:45 am PT

It’s like the old “make it up on volume” joke. Except this time it might work, if students and school districts play along.

Pearson, McGraw-Hill, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Join Apple in iPad Textbook Effort

John Paczkowski in Media on January 19, 2012 at 7:58 am PT

The textbook triumvirate is onboard for Apple’s new iBooks textbook store.

InsideView, an Intelligence Dashboard for Salespeople, Raises $12 Million

Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on March 24, 2011 at 6:00 am PT

A personal CIA for salespeople, InsideView aims to turn data from social media, financial databases and other sources into useful business intelligence.

Textbook Makers Fund Inkling for Interactive iPad Editions

Liz Gannes in Social on March 23, 2011 at 12:00 am PT

The iPad textbook creator Inkling has extended its Series A round to include leading educational publishers McGraw-Hill and Pearson, a coup that could help it get out ahead of other digital edition providers.

Voices

Textbooks Up Their Game

Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on August 20, 2010 at 12:00 am PT

Maybe the iPad will move digital college textbooks out of theory and into practice. Although electronic book sales have exploded, digital college textbooks have been slow to get off the ground, in part because of high prices and hardware concerns. Now, a former Apple Inc. employee, Matt Mac Innis, is trying to shake up the market with a new approach that taps into the iPad’s strengths.