Coursera to buy Udemy, creating $2.5 billion firm to target AI training

Online education platform Coursera said on Wednesday it would buy rival Udemy in an all-stock deal, valuing the combined ...

Coursera to acquire Udemy in $2.5 billion all-stock deal

Under the terms of the deal, Udemy shareholders will receive 0.8 shares of Coursera for every share held. The deal implies an ...
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Coursera to acquire Udemy to create $2.5B MOOC giant

Coursera is valued more highly, with a market cap of $1.3 billion to Udemy’s $948.7 million as of Wednesday afternoon. Under ...

Coursera to merge with Udemy in all-stock deal valuing combined company at $2.5 billion

Coursera ( COUR) and Udemy ( UDMY) have entered into a definitive merger agreement under which Coursera will combine with ...

The $2.5B Coursera-Udemy merger is being driven by AI speed

The two tech education giants hope to be able to offer AI skills training in what one analyst called ‘bite-sized learning ...

Can’t get a job? Blame AI? Train in ‘power skills,’ IBM exec says: ‘You can’t hire a college student now to just come in and create a spreadsheet’

You can’t hire a college student now to just come in and create a spreadsheet,” Nixon-Saintil explained, emphasizing that ...
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This week’s science roundup covers 2025’s near-record heat, a new mpox strain and fresh clues about why hobbits vanished 50,000 years ago. Journalist Karen Hao unpacks the rise of AI “empires,” their ...