Digital technologies have transformed education and learning in four key areas: access to a wide range of learning resources which can be located and downloaded over the internet; provision of digital support tools in physical classrooms, for example electronic whiteboards; e-learning services which enable interactive distance-learning; and more recently, the creation of complete 'virtual' classrooms.
The Walt Disney Company's Asian subsidiary The Walt Disney Company (Southeast Asia) Pte. Ltd. has increased its strategic investment in UTV, India's only integrated media and entertainment company with content creation abilities across platforms and genres. With this investment, Disney will be increasing its stake in UTV to 32.1%, worth approximately $200 million. Ronnie Screwvala, who founded UTV in 1991, and his partners will also increase their combined shareholding in UTV to 32.1% through the issue of warrants.
Sarita Jones, 11 June 2008
Google is preparing to launch Google Translation Center, a new translation tool for freelance and professional translators. The new service has broad implications for the translation industry, which is still very fragmented and technologically un-sophisticated.
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Reiko Uchida, 02 September 2008
Guardian News & Media is expanding its US presence with the acquisition of ContentNext Media, the B2B media company which covers digital media, the entertainment and technology sectors, and publishes the online service paidContent.org. The terms of the deal were not disclosed.
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Michelle Wong, 15 July 2008
The London-based Private Equity firm Vitruvian Partners is buying Tinopolis, one of the United Kingdom’s leading independent media companies, with around 2,500 hours of drama, factual, sports and children’s programming produced each year for more than 200 broadcasters worldwide, for about £45m.
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Sarita Jones, 12 May 2008
As if Google hadn't spread its footprint wide enough over the web already, it now appears to be getting ready to challenge Wikipedia. Google's Knol, currently in test, threatens to promote ad-supported user-generated content to challenge Wikipedia's free model.
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Uday Phadke, 04 December 2007