When Mitsubishi made your first cellphone, you know you’ve been around a while. Steve has carried the latest and greatest around in his pocket for nearly 30 years, with everything from Motorola ...

Having tested some of the best e-readers, I’ve noticed that everything has gotten a bit too similar lately. So, imagine my delight when Rakuten Kobo decided to shake up the homogeneity of the market ...

An inflection point came in 2002, when Potash said OverDrive was not in its strongest position as a business. This was after dot com crash, and e-book was almost a dirty word, Potash said. But ...

File this under the category of “no surprise”: During the pandemic, a lot of us stayed home and downloaded books from the library. And the result was a record-setting year for King County Library ...

Overdrive, a Cleveland-based provider of a digital reading platform used in schools and libraries, has agreed to be acquired by private equity firm KKR. Terms of the deal were not disclosed in the ...

Investment firm KKR has signed a deal to buy digital reading platform OverDrive from Rakuten for an undisclosed sum. OverDrive is known in the UK for providing e-books to public libraries and has a ...

The private equity firm KKR has signed a definitive agreement to acquire OverDrive in a deal announced on Christmas Eve. KKR bought the leading digital platform that delivers e-books and digital audio ...

Rakuten purchased Overdrive in 2015 for $410 million dollars and it looks like the company has been underperforming. Rakuten has just sold Overdrive on Christmas Eve to KKR. This company is no ...

(RTTNews) - Private-equity firm KKR & Co. Inc. (KKR) said that it agreed to acquire OverDrive Inc., digital reading platform for libraries and schools, from Rakuten USA, a wholly owned subsidiary of ...

Private-equity firm KKR & Co. Inc. announced Tuesday afternoon that it has agreed to acquire Overdrive, which helps libraries and schools deliver digital content to users, from Rakuten Inc. . The two ...

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--KKR, a leading global investment firm, today announced the signing of a definitive agreement to acquire OverDrive, Inc. (“OverDrive” or the “Company”), the leading digital ...

CLEVELAND, Nov. 4, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Public library patrons can join millions of readers worldwide in a riveting tale of survival during Big Library Read, the world's largest digital book club.