high school

Daddy, I Want an iPhone NOW!

John Paczkowski in News on April 4 at 3:40 am PT

According to investment bank Piper Jaffray’s latest teen survey, a third of high-school students own an iPhone and a bunch more plan to buy one soon.

Start-Up Slader Looks to Solve the Math Homework Problem

Drake Martinet in Commerce on December 4, 2011 at 3:36 pm PT

Slader, a quiet New York-based education start-up, is picking away at what the school-attending population would probably list as the biggest pain point in their young lives: Homework.

CaptainU Builds the Mint.com for Student Athletes

Drake Martinet in News on November 20, 2011 at 9:15 am PT

The path from high school sports superstar to college scholarship MVP can be a treacherous one. CaptainU — a start-up built by former collegiate athletes — helps navigate it.

Chegg Buys Zinch in Another Move Toward a “Social Education Platform”

Kara Swisher in Commerce on September 15, 2011 at 6:00 am PT

The online textbook rental is on a hiring spree to expand its student-aimed business all year round. The latest move: Acquiring Zinch, which links high school students with college recruiters.

In Yet Another Content Hook-Up, AOL Strikes Deal With Endemol

Kara Swisher in News on January 12, 2011 at 9:10 am PT

AOL’s strategy to partner with third-party content creators for original programming–especially premium video content–keeps ticking, with another programming partnership with Endemol USA. The New York-based Internet company said it would “co-develop and co-produce new Web programming initially aimed at AOL’s growing women’s audience” with Endemol, makers of such fine television shows as “Jerseylicious.”

Exclusive: Chegg Buys Cramster

Kara Swisher in News on December 8, 2010 at 12:02 am PT

According to sources close to the situation, online textbook rental company Chegg has acquired Cramster, a social online homework help platform. The Cramster purchase is one in a series of start-up buys that Chegg has been making of late, part of a strategy to be a central place for student needs.

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Report Card? How About That Annual Report?

Geoffrey A. Fowler, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on May 6, 2010 at 5:00 am PT

Here is one indicator of the allure of Silicon Valley’s entrepreneurial culture: Diane Keng just launched her third start-up–and she is still in high school.

Yahoo Snags Citizen Sports

John Paczkowski in Mobile on March 17, 2010 at 10:39 am PT

BoomTown was right. Yahoo is indeed buying online sports site Citizen Sports, a developer of sports-related apps and games for Apple’s iPhone and for social networking sites like Facebook. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed, but as BoomTown noted on Monday, estimates put Citizen’s selling price at about $40 to $50 million.

Google Search Stories–Including Batman!–Or Are They Anti-Bing Commercials in Disguise?

Kara Swisher in News on November 21, 2009 at 9:41 pm PT

It’s well known that Google doesn’t do much in the way of marketing around its search service. So, then, what is one to make of a half-dozen videos–called “Search Stories,” which look suspiciously like commercials, starring the company’s many products–that Google introduced late last week on its blog and posted on a new channel on YouTube? Could it be that the $100 million marketing campaign that Microsoft launched for its Bing search service, which seems to be slowly gaining share, is starting to get on the nerves of those Spocks in Silicon Valley?

Kindle Ate My Homework

John Paczkowski in News on July 30, 2009 at 4:17 pm PT

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos’s hair-shirt apology for Kindlegate was a nice gesture, but it didn’t go over particularly well with Justin Gawronski, a Michigan high school senior who lost his homework when the retailer remotely deleted a copy of George Orwell’s “Nineteen Eighty-Four” from his Kindle earlier this month. He’s filed a class action suit against Amazon seeking to prevent it from deleting books from Kindles in the future.