Tama’s eLearning Blog

The Washington Post reports in “Blackboard’s WebCT Deal Spurs Antitrust Questioning” that the WebCT/Blackboard merger is getting a lot of scrutiny from the sort of people whose litigation tends to seriously restrain digital goliaths:

A deal by educational software company Blackboard Inc. to buy its chief competitor has raised questions from antitrust experts at the Justice Department. District-based Blackboard and the competitor, privately owned WebCT Inc., each has received two requests for information from the Justice Department, Blackboard said in a filing Wednesday with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Read more … [Via Online Learning Update]