Twitter acquires open source educator Marakana for internal university | Linux Today

Twitter acquires open source educator Marakana for internal university

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Web Webster
Web Webster
Aug 14, 2013

Twitter is in the process of building its own engineering education program, dubbed Twitter University.

To move things along quickly, the microblogging giant announced that it has acquires Marakana, a private company that provides open source tech training.

Specifically, Marakana has taught courses about Android, Java, HTML5, Scala, Python, Hadoop, and jQuery, among other languages and platforms.

Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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