Noah Education Services: Well-Positioned in China's Growing Education Market

On April 4, Facebook is expected to announce an Android operating system for an HTC phone that has deep Facebook integration.

March 3 (Reuters) - An education technology conference this week in Austin, Texas, will clang with bells and whistles as startups eagerly show off their latest wares.

Nick D’Aloisio is the next software prodigy, who gained huge success after Yahoo bought his news apps for near $30 million, reported Financial Times.  

Teachers are being told to confiscate pupils’ cell phones and search devices for pornography as part of a new clampdown on “sexting.” Guidance issued to schools in England this week urges teachers to use tough new powers to seize devices suspected of being used to share explicit photos or videos.

Manufacturers are already experimenting with robots. But within the next 10 years, we may start to see them pop up in classrooms, a deputy editor at The Futurist (a trends and forecasting magazine) recently told Business Insider.

Children who view clips of Sesame Street and Peppa Pig on YouTube are on average just three clicks away from explicit adult material on the site, including nudity and violence, according to research. A study released to mark Safer Internet Day on Tuesday found that graphic footage was available to children who had viewed clips of popular kids' TV programmes.

By TechCrunch: By Matt Burns

Media group Pearson (LON:PSON) has agreed a $127m deal to increase its shareholding in Bangalore-based tutoring business TutorVista to a controlling 76% stake. Pearson is best known as the owner of the FT newspaper in the UK but more recently has focused on growing an international education business. It acquired a minority stake in TutorVista in June 2009 and this transaction takes its total equity investment in the company to approximately $139m.