ELECTRONIC learning company ThirdForce yesterday expanded its reach into TV, video and DVD with the acquisition of an educational production company.

COMPUTER training company ThirdForce, whose share price has almost doubled over the past week, has said it is in talks to buy a related business. The company responded to unusual patterns of trading in its stock by telling the stock exchange yesterday that it was examining the possibility of acquiring an unnamed private company in a “complementary business”.

Following a successful pilot project earlier this year Irish e-learning company Electric Paper, has launched its International Computer Driving Licence (ICDL), courseware to Hong Kong secondary schools infor the 2004 term.