O'Reilly Media

American educational publisher

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March 2020 O'Reilly announced the closure of their live conferences arm of the business after 23 years of event production.
2019 Maker Media laid off its entire staff and ceased operations.
2019 O'Reilly Media acquired Katacoda, enabling users to experiment with code directly on the website.
2018 O'Reilly Media rebranded Safari to O'Reilly Online Learning, expanding the platform to include books, videos, live online training, and conference videos.
2017 O'Reilly Media ceased selling books online, including ebooks, and encouraged users to sign up for Safari or purchase books through online retailers like Amazon.
2014 O'Reilly Media acquired Infinite Skills, a Canadian publisher of online and DVD video courses, expanding their educational content and digital learning resources.
2014 O'Reilly Media acquired Pearson's stake in Safari Books Online, making it a wholly owned subsidiary. The company redesigned the site and expanded from B2C to B2B Enterprise market.
2012 O'Reilly Media spun out the Make properties into a separate venture-backed company called Maker Media, led by Dale Dougherty.
2011 Tim O'Reilly stepped down from his day-to-day duties as O'Reilly Media CEO to focus on the Gov 2.0 movement, with Laura Baldwin taking over leadership of the company.

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