Blackboard Acquires San Francisco-Based Terriblyclever Design

San Francisco -- Blackboard, a Washington, DC-based provider of software and services to educational institutions, said that it has acquired San Francisco-based Terriblyclever Design, a developer of iPhone and mobile Internet applications for education. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. "Today's students want to do everything with their mobile devices, including managing their social, school and work lives," said Michael Chasen, the president and CEO of Blackboard. The acquisition will help the company better target those students. Terriblyclever is the developer of MobilEdu, a suite of apps that lets educational institutions deliver content to mobile devices such as the iPhone and iPod touch. The software is designed to help students better navigate course catalogs and campus maps, e-mail professors and classmates and get updates on their course schedules, campus events, news and sports teams. Terriblyclever was founded by a group of students who worked with Stanford University to build iStanford, a set of iPhone applications to support campus life.
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