#Microsoft is acquiring the #Chalkup classroom collaboration platform and hiring its founder to work on Microsoft's Teams product. Chalkup officials said they would be bringing elements of Chalkup into the Microsoft Teams for #Education service, citing as an example Chalkup's criteria-based grading rubrics. Chalkup will shut down on June 30, 2018. Existing customers will be able to continue to run their Chalkup courses until the school year ends and will have the ability to export their course information to Microsoft Teams.


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Microsoft to integrate Chalkup's classroom collaboration tech into Teams
http://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-to-integrate-chalkups-classroom-collaboration-tech-into-teams/

#Microsoft is beefing up its Slack-like collaboration software, Microsoft Teams, with the technology-know how and the founder from collaboration software #startup #Chalkup. Following the hire, Microsoft says it will bring some of the features Chalkup had built to the Microsoft Teams for #Education product experience. Chalkup was founded in 2013 by CEO Justin Chando, who’s joining Microsoft as a result of this deal, and CTO Tim Costa, who left Chalkup in 2015.

Moving forward, Chalkup says some of its best-loved features will be integrated into Microsoft Teams. However, the companies so far have only disclosed one that’s definitely making the transition: Chalkup’s criteria-based grading rubrics that let teachers give students feedback on their work. Chalkup itself was not a large company – one founder had left, and it had only raised a small seed round, according to Crunchbase. But Chalkup remained online all these years by being very capital efficient, and had built software that was in demand in the classroom, and as an acquisition target.


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Microsoft hires classroom collaboration startup Chalkup founder to expand Microsoft Teams
https://techcrunch.com/2018/02/13/microsoft-acquires-classroom-collaboration-startup-chalkup-to-expand-microsoft-teams/

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# Next Communications Inc. sells interest in Next Angel LLC MIAMI. July 19, 2013 /PRNewswire-iReach/ — Next Communications, Inc. (“Next Communications”) a market leading provider of long distance voice, data, and HD video services for wired and wireless telecommunications carriers throughout the world announced today, from its Miami, Florida headquarters, that it has sold its equity interest in Next Angel LLC to Angel Telecom Holdings AG, of Baar, Switzerland. in a friendly transaction. Following the transaction, Next Angel LLC will be renamed Angel Americas LLC. The transaction will allow Next Communications to continue to focus on its international and domestic ...

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# Securus Technologies, Inc. to Acquire JPay Inc. DALLAS. April 14, 2015 /PRNewswire/ — Securus Technologies announced today that it has signed a definitive Stock Purchase Agreement to acquire JPay Inc. JPay is the market leading technology company that introduced electronic payments, email, and a host of entertainment and educational related apps to the corrections space, and currently operates in more than 33 state prison systems. “This transaction thrusts Securus into the fastest growing segments in corrections: payments, email, and most recently, inmate tablets,” said Rick Smith. CEO of Securus Technologies. “We now can offer virtually anything that is high ...

Top U.S. grain merchant #ArcherDanielsMidland Co has proposed a takeover of #Bunge Ltd, which could set up a bidding war with Swiss-based rival #Glencore Plc. Large grain traders that make money by buying, selling, storing and shipping crops have struggled in recent years with global oversupplies. Thin margins have squeezed core commodity trading operations, including those of ADM, Bunge, #Cargill Inc and #LouisDreyfus Co, which together are known as the 'ABCDs”'and dominate the industry. Consolidation is seen as one remedy. Glencore last year sought a tie-up with Bunge in what was viewed as a start of a wave of mergers and acquisitions in the industry.

Grain companies in recent years have expanded into higher-margin sectors, such as food ingredients and aquaculture, to offset weak results and wild swings in their traditional business of handling crops. In 2014, ADM bought natural ingredient company Wild Flavors for about $3bn in its biggest deal ever. The company has also expanded into handling healthy ingredients such as fruits, nuts and 'ancient grains.'


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ADM pursues big ag merger with grain trader Bunge: source
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-bunge-m-a-archer-daniels/adm-pursues-big-ag-merger-with-grain-trader-bunge-source-idUSKBN1F82N4

Pressure on France's #Safran to rethink its proposed $9bn takeover of #ZodiacAerospace intensified on Wednesday as a profit warning sent the target's shares tumbling and hedge fund TCI called for Safran's chairman to be ousted unless it abandons the deal. Paris-based Zodiac disclosed new cost overruns and slashed its earnings guidance late on March 14, with the manufacturer of aircraft interiors saying it expects annual core operating income to fall by about 10%, against a previous forecast of a 10-20% increase.

Aircraft engine and parts maker Safran reaffirmed its interest in buying Zodiac, emphasizing confidence in its ability to reinvigorate the company. Nevertheless, investor TCI - which owns about 4% of Safran and is also a shareholder of Zodiac - said in an open letter to Safran chairman Ross McInnes that it would urge shareholders to oust him unless the takeover is abandoned.


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Hedge fund TCI intensifies pressure on Safran to scrap $9 billion Zodiac deal
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-zodiac-aero-safran-tci-idUSKBN16M1EA

The #EuropeanCommission approved #Lufthansa's €210m ($249m) partial takeover of its defunct rival #AirBerlin. Brussels agreed that the German carrier could buy up the remaining assets of Air Berlin’s LGW subsidiary under the condition that it restricts its operations at Dusseldorf airport - a move aimed at preventing excessive market dominance. Lufthansa initially planned on buying 81 aircraft out of Air Berlin’s 140-stong fleet, including all of the planes from its Austrian budget carrier Niki, plus its valuable airport slots.


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#EU approves Lufthansa's partial takeover of Air Berlin
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