Posts by Goldie Blumenstyk
August 5, 2009, 04:00 PM ET
Higher-Education Company Cooks Up Deal for Famed Culinary-School Brand
On Wednesday, days before a Hollywood film about Julia Child, the famous graduate of Le Cordon Bleu cooking school in Paris, hits America's movie screens, the Career Education Corporation announced that it was buying the rights to the brand in the education-services field for the United States and Canada for $135-million in cash and stock. For the past 10 years, Career Education has paid as much as $20-million annually to Le Cordon Bleu International to license those rights.
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July 23, 2009, 12:00 PM ET
Pitt Prevails Again in Stem-Cell Patent Fight With UCLA
A federal appeals court today upheld a 2008 ruling that said the University of Pittsburgh, not the University of California at Los Angeles, was entitled to a patent on a promising technique for deriving stem cells from fat.
Read MoreJuly 21, 2009, 06:00 AM ET
Merger Brings Aslanian Group Into Education Dynamics Fold
The Aslanian Group, a company that was founded by a former College Board official, Carol Aslanian, to advise colleges on recruiting adult students, has merged with Education Dyanamics, best known for its Web-based sites aimed at recruiting distance-education students.
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