DreamBox Learning, a Bellevue, Washington, education-software company, has received a $130 million investment from private equity firm TPG.

The money, more than triple what the company previously raised in its 12-year life span, is intended to bring accessible math education to more schools across the world.

The investment is from TPG's division that invests in social impact companies, the Rise Fund, and will make it the majority stakeholder in the education-software company, which also counts Netflix CEO Reed Hastings among its investors.

DreamBox's technology is designed to teach math at a personalized level for students from kindergarten to eighth grade.

The software is now used by nearly 3 million students in the U.S., Canada and Mexico, the company said.

Starbucks, Alibaba join up in China

Starbucks and Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group announced a coffee delivery venture Thursday, joining the growing competition in China's booming delivery industry.

Starbucks Coffee Co. and Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. said the venture starts next month in Beijing and Shanghai. It will expand to 30 cities by the end of the year.

Starbucks joins a booming Chinese delivery industry for goods ranging from clothes to groceries to cooked food.

Its venture with Alibaba mimics Luckin Coffee, a Chinese upstart that opened this year and is challenging Starbucks by delivering coffee ordered over a mobile phone app.

Brookfield buyout of mall owner nears

Brookfield Property Partners expects to finalize this month a previously announced agreement to buy the remaining shares it doesn't already own in GGP, the owner of Fort Wayne's Glenbrook Square.

The deal with GGP, for years known as General Growth Properties, has reported to be valued at about $15 billion. As of November 2017, Brookfield owned about 34 percent of GGP.

Brookfield disclosed in late July that GGP shareholders voted July 26 to approve the takeover.

Uber getting out of self-driving trucks

Ride-hailing giant Uber announced it is winding down its self-driving truck technology business, better known as Otto, which Uber acquired in 2016 for $680 million.

Uber said the decision to exit self-driving trucks will have no effect on Uber Freight, its business that connects trucking companies with drivers to haul cargo across the country.