Turnitin sold to Advance for US$1.735 billion

Plagiarism-detection firm to be sold for US$1.7 billion

Beth McMurtrie, The Chronicle of Higher Education  08 March 2019
Stamping out student plagiarism is big business. How big? Worth US$1.735 billion, to be exact. That’s the price that Advance, a privately held media, communications, and technology company, will pay to purchase Turnitin, the 800-pound gorilla of plagiarism-detection services. Although not the largest ed-tech deal ever made, it is, in the words of one analyst, “massive”.

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