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FEBRUARY 2020 – NEWSLETTER #31 | Breaking news at IBL News | Noticias en Español
Coronavirus’ Outbreak
• Time to Cancel Your Ed Conference? Facebook Pulls Out of Its Biggest Event; Microsoft Follows
• The World’s Largest Smartphone Conference Canceled Due to Coronavirus Concerns
• International Education Will Be Disrupted by the Coronavirus Travel Ban
• UMass Boston Student Contracted the Coronavirus; 100 at Princeton University Self-Quarantined
• Over 25,000 ASU Students Demand to Cancel Classes Due to a Coronavirus Case on Campus
Higher Ed
• Michael Crow Gets a $30 Million Gift from State Farm to Fund a Workforce Development Program at ASU
• The Annual Jupyter Conference Is Back – It Will Take Place on August 10-14 in Berlin, Germany
• MIT Donates the $850,000 Received from Epstein and Suspends Prof. Seth Lloyd
Corporate Business
• Cornerstone OnDemand Acquires Saba for $1.4 Billion
• Udemy Claims a Valuation of $2 Billion and Announces 5,000 Corporate Clients
• Course Hero: $100M in Revenue, 1M Subscribers, and a Valuation of $1.1 Billion
• Canadian EdTech Top Hat Raises $55M Trying to Disrupt the Textbook Industry
• Has 2U Turned the Corner? Quarterly Reports Show Improved Revenue and the Stock Surges 11%
Instructure / Canvas LMS
• Instructure’s CEO Steps Down and the Board Approves a Tender Offer to Acquire All Outstanding Shares
• Thoma Bravo Raises Its Offer for Instructure to $49 Per Share, but Investors Might Demand a Higher Price
• Instructure’s Shares Fell 3% Amid Concerns that the $2 Billion Takeover from Thoma Bravo Will Fail
• Dissident Investors Are Likely to Derail the Instructure Transaction Unless They Get an Improved Offer
2020 Upcoming Events
• Education Calendar – MARCH | APRIL | MAY | JUNE | JULY – DEC | Conferences in Latin America & Spain
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