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https://investor.coursera.com/news/news-details/2025/Coursera-to-Combine-with-Udemy-to-Empower-the-Global-Workforce-with-Skills-for-the-AI-Era/default.aspx

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Coursera to Combine with Udemy to Empower the Global Workforce with Skills for the AI Era

Highly Complementary Capabilities Will Create a Leading Technology Platform, Redefining Skills Discovery, Development, and Mastery for Learners and Organizations at Scale Unites Udemy’s Dynamic AI-Powered Skills Development Marketplace with World-Class University and Industry Brands Under the Coursera Ecosystem, Expanding Value, Impact, and Choice Globally Strengthens Combined Company’s Financial Profile with Pro Forma Annual Revenue of More Than $1.5 Billion and Anticipated Annual Run-Rate Cost Synergies of $115 Million Within 24 Months Coursera and Udemy to Host Joint Conference Call Today, December 17, 2025, at 5:00 a.m. PT / 8:00 a.m. ET Coursera, Inc. (NYSE: COUR) and Udemy, Inc. (NASDAQ: UDMY) today announced that they have entered into a definitive merger agreement under which Coursera will combine with Udemy in an all-stock transaction. Based on the closing prices of Coursera and Udemy common stock on December 16, 2025, the implied equity value of the combined company is

infosertecla.com Dec 18

Megafusión en el EdTech – Coursera y Udemy se Unen en un Acuerdo de 2.500 Millones de Dólares

En un movimiento que redefine el panorama del aprendizaje en línea, Coursera y Udemy han anunciado un acuerdo de fusión definitivo valorado en aproximadamente 2.500 millones de dólares. Esta unión crea un gigante educativo sin precedentes que combina el prestigio académico de Coursera con el vasto catálogo práctico de Udemy (Fuente Bussinesswired).

🎓 Un Gigante de la Educación Digital

La fusión busca consolidar los recursos de ambas plataformas para dominar un mercado de educación técnica y superior cada vez más competitivo.

Puntos Clave del Acuerdo

Valoración: El acuerdo está valorado en unos 2.500 millones de dólares, reflejando la consolidación necesaria en un sector EdTech que ha visto fluctuaciones tras el auge de la pandemia.
Sinergia de Contenidos: * Coursera aporta sus asociaciones con universidades de élite (Yale, Stanford) y certificaciones profesionales de grandes tecnológicas (Google, IBM).
- Udemy aporta su modelo de marketplace con miles de cursos sobre habilidades técnicas, creativas y de negocios actualizados casi en tiempo real por expertos del sector.
Alcance Global: La nueva entidad combinada contará con una base de usuarios que supera los 200 millones de estudiantes en todo el mundo.

¿Qué significa para los usuarios?

Aunque las marcas podrían operar de forma independiente inicialmente, se espera una integración de suscripciones (como Coursera Plus y Udemy Business) para ofrecer un catálogo todo-en-uno. Para las empresas, esto representa una solución única para la capacitación de sus empleados, cubriendo desde habilidades básicas hasta títulos de posgrado.

Dato: Los analistas sugieren que este movimiento es una respuesta directa a la presión de la Inteligencia Artificial, permitiendo a ambas empresas invertir conjuntamente en herramientas de tutoría personalizadas basadas en IA para competir con nuevas startups del sector.

#arielmcorg #coursera #infosertec #PORTADA #udemy

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Tero Keski-Valkama Dec 18

I wonder if it makes sense to approach job search through hobbies and side activities rather than just by past employment history.

In my free time, I do #microbiology. I have a #biolab in the cellar with petri dishes and microscopes and all. I ferment #olives which grow in my tree and make pickles out of them, I make two kinds of #sourdough bread from a culture I extracted from quince fruit peels from my own tree, one wheat and one #rye.

I do #mycology. I have some 2,000 photos of wild #mushrooms in my Facebook photo albums.

I do a lot of software-defined radio, I have more #antennas than I care to count, and also more #SDR modules than I care to count. I stream radio data directly to my own #ElasticSearch which I can visualize in different ways in Kibana.

I do home automation, and the house has countless sensors and cameras. I use #HomeAssistant for this, with lots of modules I have implemented myself, for example for scraping data from my Huawei solar panels and graphing their historical data.

I have a home #Kubernetes cluster with many nodes and several public-facing services with some 99.9% uptime like a local Mastodon instance and also a #Matrix instance, in addition to lots of local services.

I am a data archivist and I have lots of stuff backed up locally if the internet goes down like it did during the notorious #apagon in Spain.

I play strategy games in Playstation, some of my current favorite games are #Stellaris and #Tropico6. I just like resource optimization over time.

I grow vegetables and some fruit trees. Trying to get really hot chilis growing here as they aren't readily available in stores. I have eaten the One Chip Challenge without even wincing a bit. I am a #ChiliHead.

I administrate all sorts of online communities and web pages. I read a lot of books and whenever I get into a new domain, I tend to read several definitive reference books of the topic from cover to cover. For example I now know more about #cancer biology than I ever thought I would.

I used to take a lot of #Coursera courses, also in non-technical topics such as #virology, #BrainPhysiology, #AnimalBehavior and such.

We have 3 cats, 2 siamese and 1 rescued as a kitten from the neighboring empty plot where he was born.

Ask me anything about these things!

If you need someone like this in your team to build great things, working remotely from Spain, let's chat!

#AI #AGI #OpenToWork #RemoteWorking #FediHire

S.v. N.Sönmez Dec 18

Coursera ve Udemy, 2,5 milyar dolarlık birleşme anlaşmasıyla güçlerini birleştiriyor! Yapay zeka odaklı büyüme hedefiyle online eğitimin geleceğini şekillendirecekler. Sektör nasıl etkilenir?

🚩 #EğitimTeknolojileri #OnlineÖğrenme #YapayZeka #Coursera #Udemy

infosertecla.com Dec 18

Radiogeek 2798 – Canva tuvo problemas para acceso y no se reportó el inconveniente de forma oficial

El programa 2798 de Radiogeek, les habló de varios temas importantes. Coursera y Udemy anuncian una fusión!, Reuters confirma que Meta recibió sumas millonarias de publicidad fraudulenta a sabiendas de ello, Google habilita de forma mundial Gemini 3 flash de forma gratuita y por última Canva en el día de hoy miércoles tuvo fallas de forma mundial, aunque de forma oficial no se dio a conocer el problema y tampoco hubo comunicado al respecto.

https://open.spotify.com/episode/0rhuR2An2BwqwmNMgNA56D?si=8a6f5c5e00ea49ef

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#caidaCanva #Canva #coursera #gemini3Flash #infosertec #PODCAST #PORTADA #RADIOGEEK #udemy

Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬Dec 18

#Coursera to buy #Udemy, creating $2.5B firm to target AI training
Companies are betting combined platform will be better positioned to pursue corporate customers seeking to retrain workers in artificial intelligence, data science and software development. Coursera built business on partnerships with universities and institutions to offer degree programs and professional certificates, while Udemy operates a marketplace where independent instructors sell courses directly.
https://www.reuters.com/business/coursera-udemy-merge-deal-valuing-combined-firm-25-billion-2025-12-17/