It has bought Marakana, an open-source technical training company; and in turn, Marakana will be the force behind a new effort called Twitter University. School mascot: a blue bird, not a whale.

Twitter has acquired Marakana, a company that provides open-source training, in a deal that will lead to the formation of a new development program at the social network dubbed "Twitter University." ...

Marakana has offered courses about Android, Java, HTML5, Scala, Python, Hadoop, and jQuery, among other languages and platforms. Twitter acquires open source educator Marakana for internal ...

Learning at Twitter just took a giant leap forward. After spending the last few months working with open source training company Marakana on developing an internal training and education program ...

Twitter has acquired open source training company Marakana, as it launches Twitter University — its programme for providing extra training for its engineers. “As Twitter has scaled, so too has ...

Twitter today announced its latest acquisition, along with a move into offering richer resources to attract better engineering talent to the company, TechCrunch reports. It has bought Marakana, an ...