{"id":10828,"date":"2013-09-04T11:15:56","date_gmt":"2013-09-04T16:15:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=10828"},"modified":"2013-09-04T11:15:56","modified_gmt":"2013-09-04T16:15:56","slug":"inside-news-corps-540-million-bet-on-american-classrooms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=10828","title":{"rendered":"Inside News Corp&#8217;s $540 Million Bet on American Classrooms"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The company plans to cash in on education with custom-made tablet computers and curricula, as American classrooms move ever closer to complete digital integration. It began by purchasing a company called Wireless Generation, rebranding it as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amplify.com\/\">Amplify<\/a> and pouring in more than half a billion dollars.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2013\/08\/29\/news-corp-education-tablets\/\">Inside News Corp&#8217;s $540 Million Bet on American Classrooms<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The company plans to cash in on education with custom-made tablet computers and curricula, as American classrooms move ever closer to complete digital integration. It began by purchasing a company called Wireless Generation, rebranding it as Amplify and pouring in &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=10828\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[367,877,115,87],"class_list":["post-10828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","tag-education","tag-market-research","tag-tablets","tag-tools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10828"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10829,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10828\/revisions\/10829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}