Velocity Alert: LinkedIn pays $1.5B for online educator lynda.com in its biggest acquisition yet

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LinkedIn pays $1.5B for online educator lynda.com in its biggest acquisition yet LinkedIn has announced its biggest acquisition yet, spending $1.5 billion for online education startup lynda.com. How does Mashable know what's going viral? Mashable built a system called Velocity, which scours the social web, collecting lots and lots of data around how people are engaging with published articles. It then pulls all of that data back to Mashable, dumps it into our own predictive engine, and predicts which articles are about to go viral. Read more at Mashable.com ▶ Mashable, Inc. is a Delaware Corporation. P.O. Box 64 New York, NY, 10159-0064

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