WASHINGTON, Feb. 4, 2015 /PRNewswire/ — Today Blackboard Inc. announced a definitive agreement to acquire Schoolwires, one of the leading educational website, hosting and content management providers ...

Blackboard Inc. said last week that it planned to buy its longtime course-management software rival, WebCT Inc., in a $180-million deal that would make the new corporation the Goliath of its market.

What's the best way for an Internet company to avoid a plummeting stock price? Don't sell shares to the public. That is what Blackboard Inc., a Washington online education company, decided last year ...

Support for Blackboard Learn ™ ANGEL Edition was scheduled to expire in October 2014. With the change, clients using ANGEL will now be supported indefinitely beyond that date. Blackboard will evaluate ...

Keynote speaker Jay Bhatt, president and chief executive officer of Blackboard Inc., generates excitement for educational software developments amongst attendees while speaking at the BbWorld 2013 ...

Molly Tipton failed at her first try last winter at putting classroom resources and homework assignments online—via a class MySpace page—after parents said they feared their children might get into ...

Blackboard currently owns over half of the higher education LMS (learning management system) market. While the company has seen erosion of its market share to open source competitors (particularly ...

After months of criticism that its patent policies had the potential to squelch important education projects, Blackboard on Thursday announced a "patent pledge" under which it vowed not to assert its ...