City & Guilds of London Institute to sell its awarding and training businesses to PeopleCert, refocusing its mission on charitable impact through The City & Guilds Foundation.
Workday is to acquire AI learning firm Sana in a $1.1bn deal, adding AI-driven learning and agents to strengthen workplace skills and employee experience.
Docebo has reported strong growth in revenue and gross profit for the second quarter of 2025, alongside a slight drop in net income.
Interview with Mindtools and Kineo CEO, Shabnam Shahani.
Study reveals UK workers buckling under financial pressure and the positive effects of greater financial literacy on improving wellbeing and reducing stress.
Podcast-style workplace training model aims to reach disengaged audiences such as deskless and neurodiverse workers.
ILX Group announces acquisition of IT training business StayAhead Training.
Docebo reports an increase in net profit in 2024 to $26.7M ahead of expectation and an increase on $2.8M in 2023; Revenue up 20% to £217M.
Creative services group's third acquisition in as many months; targets rapid expansion in learning market.
Growth financing from HSBC Innovation Banking UK to fuel AI innovation and product expansion.
H.I.G. Capital and Thoma Bravo have announced the signing of a definitive agreement to acquire the brand and information technology certification and training business and products of CompTIA.
Investment to enhance digital adoption product suite through organic growth and acquisitions and expand presence in US, EMEA, and APAC regions.
Docebo has reported an increase in revenue and profit for the second quarter 2024.
Accenture (NYSE: ACN) has completed the acquisition of Udacity, a digital education pioneer that blends online learning with human instruction.
Cornerstone's latest acquisition adds an AI-powered skills intelligence platform to help build future-ready workforces.
Learning platform vendor Docebo has reported a jump in revenues to $51.4 million and net income up to $5.2 million, for the first quarter 2024.
LMS365, an AI-powered learning platform built into Microsoft 365 and Teams, today announced its acquisition of Valuebeat.
Cornerstone has announced the acquisition of extended reality capabilities and a team of highly specialised domain experts from Talespin, a spatial learning company focused on workforce skills development.
Skill Dynamics, a provider of supply chain and procurement training has acquired the compliance training business, Content Enablers.
Learning Pool has acquired OnScreen, a Digital Adoption Platform, which helps employees adopt new digital applications and processes.
Traliant has announced the acquisition of Kantola Training Solutions, a provider of harassment prevention and DEI training and HR compliance, for over 15,000 organizations, including Subaru, FedEx and Hyundai.
Imparta has expanded in the US with the purchase of a sales organisation development business; Lisa Doyle from VPP joins Learning News to discuss the acquisition and the challenges sales teams face.
Go1’s acquisition of Blinkist and a new model for consumption of learning content.
Docebo's revenues continue to rise, up 25% to $43 million for 2023 Q2, yet with a net loss of $5.7 million, down from a profit of $2.1 million on the same period last year.
UK-based performance and engagement management company purchased to prioritise the needs of individual learners.
Docebo's positive financial trajectory holds into Q1. Digital learning tech vendor Docebo returned to profit in Q4 2022 and its performance continued in Q1 2023 with revenue up 29% over Q1 2022 to $41.5M and a net profit of $1.2M.
Neueda expands global offering with acquisition of Conygre in multi-million pound deal.
Docebo Q4 revenue up 31% to $39 million; annual revenue $142 million and EBITDA $1.3 million.
Nelson Sivalingam, Co-founder and CEO, HowNow, joins Learning News.
HowNow, a learning experience platform, founded by Nelson Sivalingam, has announced it has received funding from Pearson and Mercia. The investment will be used to fund expansion.
The AI-powered content curator, Anders Pink is acquired by the learning ecosystem builder Go1. Managing Director, Michelle Hazelton provides an update with Rob Clarke on Learning News.
Go1 acquires Anders Pink to provide best-in-class content curation capability for learners.
LX Group announces acquisition of TSG Training, a provider of IT and software testing training courses.
Ufi Ventures leads £310,000 investment in Assemble You, a podcast-style audio library helping workers to learn on the go.
LGCA has just released the training programme for The Association of Governance, Risk & Compliance (AGRC) Level 3 Certificate in Corporate Governance. It is self-paced, online and includes one year of membership to AGRC.
eLearning Brothers has secured a $54 million investment to fund future growth; funds will be used to first complete the acquisitions of Rehearsal and Origin Learning.
eLearning Brothers today announced its acquisition of India-based Origin Learning, its fifth acquisition in the last two years and second of 2022.
360Learning has received a $200 million investment from three different investors and defines mission to reimagine corporate learning.
The latest acquisitions and investments in learning provider businesses.
Inspera has received growth capital investment to the meet surge in demand for e-assessments.
Two leaders in the edtech market, Blackboard and Anthology, are to merge to create a global provider of education software and solutions.
Valamis has acquired career mobility software provider, TWM; Valamis CEO, Jussi Hurskainen, joins Learning News to talk about the acquisition and career mobility applications.
Eagle Point and provider of architecture, engineering and construction software has acquired KnowledgeSmart, a provider of skills gap analysis and benchmarking services for AEC firms.
Talent management software provider, Cornerstone OnDemand, is to be acquired by private equity firm, Clearlake Capital, for $5.2 Billion.
July saw a host of acquisitions and investment in the learning sector. Fuse, Capita, Filtered, Learning Technologies Group, Articulate, OpenSesame, QA, Valamis and The Working Manager are just a few of those active over the last month. Learning News has the latest.
QA has completed the acquisition of Circus Street, a provider of digital skills including ecommerce, data analytics and digital marketing skills.
Articulate has raised $1.5 Billion in Series A Round led by General Atlantic, with participation from Blackstone Growth and ICONIQ Growth.
Kortext, the UK’s market leading, university focussed, digital teaching and learning platform, announces that it has finalised additional investment funding from dmg ventures and Paul Zwillenberg, CEO of DMGT will join the Kortext Board.
Interview with Piers Lea from LTG and Phill Miller from Open LMS, one of the Moodle-related learntech companies acquired by LTG in 2020.
An extended interview with Peter Salzer, Executive Chairman, Global Knowledge, discussing how GK has coped during the pandemic, about the global IT and business skills market and about GK's intention to merge with Skillsoft.
Learning News in discussion with Kallidus CEO, Rob Caul, on the acquisition of people operations platform, Sapling.
The former Saba Studio business, previously part of Cornerstone OnDemand, Inc., has been acquired by BestatDigital Ltd., a privately owned digital learning and communications company. As part of the transaction, the former Saba Studio team of approximately 60 employees and self employed consultants will transition to the new company.