Thomson acquires Selkirk Financial, KnowledgeNet, ArtistPro & Capstar.Thomson Corp. (Stamford Stamford, town, England Stamford, town (1991 pop. 18,127), in the Parts of Kesteven, Lincolnshire, E central England, on the Welland River. It is a market town. Products include diesel engines, electrical equipment, bricks, and tiles. , CT), through its various subsidiaries, is near completed the acquisition of four companies, including Selkirk Financial, KnowledgeNet, ArtistPro Publishing and Capstar. No terms for any of the deals were given. Thomson has signed an agreement to purchase privately-held Selkirk Financial (Vancouver, BC), a global provider of treasury management systems and services. Selkirk products assist clients in the Treasury market manage liquidity, forecast cash flow, consolidate banking information and mitigate mit·i·gate v. To moderate in force or intensity. mit  i·ga tion n. risk. Thomson Learning has also signed an agreement to acquire KnowledgeNet (Scottsdale, AZ), a provider of e-learning products, and will merge the company with its Thomson NETg operations. KnowledgeNet products are designed to offer self-paced, instructor-led and mobile learning content in multiple disciplines, including professional development, project management and productivity skills. Thomson NETg provides e-learning, e-reference, e-MBA, assessments, certifications, textbooks and instructor materials. Thomson has also purchased ArtistPro Publishing (Boston, MA), a publisher of materials for the record engineering, music business and music technology markets. Established in 2000, ArtistPro includes imprints ProAudio Press (technical and related titles), ProMusic Press (music business titles) and ArtistPro Video (DVD DVD: see digital versatile disc. DVD in full digital video disc or digital versatile disc Type of optical disc. The DVD represents the second generation of compact-disc (CD) technology. and VHS (Video Home System) A half-inch, analog videocassette recorder (VCR) format introduced by JVC in 1976 to compete with Sony's Betamax, introduced a year earlier. titles). Its Web products includes online pro audio study courses, product sales, and a subscription database of industry contacts. Finally, Thomson has also signed an agreement to acquire Capstar (Princeton, NJ) and its related businesses from parent Educational Testing Service The Educational Testing Service (or ETS) is the world's largest private educational testing and measurement organization, operating on an annual budget of approximately $1.1 billion on a proforma basis in 2007. (ETS ETS Educational Testing Service (nonprofit private educational testing and measurement organization) ETS Emergency Telecommunications Service ETS Electronic Trading System ETS Engineering (&) Technical Services ; Princeton, NJ). Capstar is a provider of competency COMPETENCY, evidence. The legal fitness or ability of a witness to be heard on the trial of a cause. This term is also applied to written or other evidence which may be legally given on such trial, as, depositions, letters, account-books, and the like. 2. assessment, learning and measurement, and testing solutions for corporations, associations, and state and federal governments. Services include: test design, development and delivery; test administration; custom content development; audits and validations; competency modelling: and, learning consulting. |
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