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Harvard University and MIT today announcededX, a transformational new partnership in online education. Through edX, the two institutions will collaborate to enhance campus-based teaching and learning and build a global community of online learners. EdX will build on both unive...

Last fall, two Stanford computer-science professors helped create an online course-hosting platform that opened some of the universitys classes to the entire world. Hundreds of thousands of students enrolled free of charge. Their start-up company, which grew out of that effort...

The group of elite universities offering free online courses just got bigger. Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology today announced a partnership that will host online courses from both institutions free of charge. The platform, its creators say, ha...

International Business Machines Corp. (IBM)s Watson computer, which beat champions of the quiz show Jeopardy! a year ago, will soon be advising Wall Street on risks, portfolios and clients. Citigroup Inc. (C), the third-largest U.S. lender, is Watsons first financial services...

On the eve of the Apple media event for the iPad 3, Apple has added a new category in the App Store. The new category is called ''Catalogs'' and seems to be not yet fully deployed.Several existing apps have already been placed into the Catalogs category, includingCatalog Spree...