Equities and Alchemy

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October. This is one of the peculiarly dangerous months to speculate in stocks. Other dangerous months are July, January, September, April, November, May, March, June, December, August and February.
- Mark Twain

1/14/13

Barnes & Noble, Pearson, Microsoft Called ‘Online-Education Dream Team’ - Deal Journal - WSJ


By Kevin Kingsbury





Associated Press
Analysts at Janney have some enthusiasm for Barnes & Noble’s newest partner in its Nook business.

By adding Pearson as an investor  in the unit along with Microsoft, and with Barnes & Noble’s own stock-holder Liberty Media, the Nook is putting together an “online-education dream team,” the analysts said in a note today.

Janney said it “always believed” that Microsoft hoped to make the Nook into an opportunity in education and now amid the investment from Pearson — an education-book giant — it’s more clear Nook wants to transform how “education is administered” globally.

Recall that Steve Jobs desired to make Apple’s iPad a disruptive tool for education too,  but had not been able to land a deal with text book publishers to his liking.  Well, Barnes & Noble and Microsoft now have Pearson, on their side.










 Source:
Barnes & Noble, Pearson, Microsoft Called ‘Online-Education Dream Team’ - Deal Journal - WSJ

 http://blogs.wsj.com/deals/2012/12/28/barnes-noble-pearson-microsoft-called-online-education-dream-team/



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