The press coverage of LinkedIn’s recent acquisition of Lynda.com for $1.5 billion has largely overlooked a key aspect of the deal. Yes, it integrates learning into a powerful social media site. Yes, ...

LinkedIn was already a place for tracking skills. Now it’s becoming a place for acquiring them. The company’s agreement to buy online training site Lynda.com for $1.5 billion, announced this morning, ...

In its biggest acquisition yet, LinkedIn will bring Lynda.com's library of online courses to the professional network's 300 million members. Lance Whitney Contributing Writer Lance Whitney is a ...

Up to 55,000 users of Lynda.com, an online training provider owned by LinkedIn—and now, by extension, Microsoft—have had their passwords reset following a data breach. LinkedIn has warned 9.5 million ...

Lynda.com founders Lynda Weinman and Bruce Heavin built a beloved powerhouse for self-improvement. LinkedIn today said it will buy Lynda.com for $1.5 billion in a deal that's a combination of cash (52 ...

Ever taken a course on LinkedIn’s online education site Lynda.com? We have some potentially bad news. As ZDNet reports, a hacker recently gained access to a Lynda.com database containing users’ ...

If you found the perfect job listing on LinkedIn (LNKD +0.00%), but you were missing some of the required skills, the newest LinkedIn acquisition should be right up your alley. Last week, LinkedIn ...

Whether you are a business executive, a young computer coder, or a consumer who simply wants to keep learning, the Lynda.com website (acquired by LinkedIn a few years ago and now called LinkedIn ...

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Lynda.com has launched a program called Learning Paths to help you land your next job, curating its courses by specific job titles. The idea is to give you a starting point to learn more about a ...

Lynda.com, the online learning unit of LinkedIn, has reset passwords for some of its users after it discovered recently that an unauthorized external party had accessed a database containing user data ...

Professional network LinkedIn is getting into the professional skills education market in a big way: The social company purchased Lynda.com, the online learning company founded in 1995 by technical ...