Deals Rumor Mill: Blackboard, Quiksilver, GE, Syngenta

By Linda Chiem (July 28, 2015, 8:40 PM EDT) -- Blackboard Inc., a private equity-backed education technology company, is looking into a sale that it hopes could value it at as much as $3 billion, including debt, Reuters reported Tuesday. Washington, D.C.-based Blackboard, which provides education and commerce software to schools, businesses and government organizations, has tapped Deutsche Bank AG and Bank of America Corp. to run an auction for the company, Reuters said. Blackboard is majority-owned by private equity firm Providence Equity Partners LLC, which paid about $1.6 billion to acquire the company in 2011....

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