Kara Swisher in News on June 17, 2011 at 6:32 am PT
Yahoo’s stock in on a downward slide again, just in time for its annual meeting next week.
So, WWSD (What will shareholders do)?
Kara Swisher in News on April 7, 2011 at 7:17 pm PT
According to sources close to the situation, Intel Capital and Advance Publications will lead a $30 million investment round in Kno, the high-profile student tablet start-up.
In addition to the funding from its venture capital ark, Intel itself will license the hardware design of Kno, which will now focus on its software to manage the devices that are aimed at the college market.
Kara Swisher in News on February 21, 2011 at 12:16 am PT
Kno–the much-funded and high-profile Silicon Valley start-up aimed at making tablet computers focused at students–is considering selling off the entire hardware part of the business and is in talks with two major consumer electronics manufacturers to do so, according to sources close to the situation.
But, if a deal is struck, the move would be a dramatic shift for the company, which has yet to ship significant numbers of the touchscreen device as it has long touted.
Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on December 16, 2010 at 10:29 am PT
The defendants include employees at several tech firms, including Dell, Advanced Micro Devices, Taiwan Semiconductor, and Flextronics. All worked as consultants for a research firm.
Tricia Duryee in Commerce on December 3, 2010 at 11:06 am PT
Cyber Monday reached a record-breaking level this year with more than $1 billion dollars spent online, making it the heaviest U.S. online shopping day ever. And that includes the intangibles in our lives that you can’t touch or feel, and can’t ship in a box, like e-books and music and virtual goods.
Kara Swisher in News on November 8, 2010 at 9:00 pm PT
Kno, the high-profile Silicon Valley start-up trying to jump-start a market for tablets focused on students, announced tonight that it will have a limited number available by the end of the year for sale at prices of $599 and $899.
The lower price is for its single-screen device, while the clamshell double-screen version is more expensive.
Kno would not say exactly how many it has ordered for its first tablet production run–the device is being built by China’s Foxconn–but co-founder and CEO Osman Rashid said in an interview earlier today that units would number “in the thousands.”
Kara Swisher in News on October 27, 2010 at 11:00 am PT
Kno, the Silicon Valley start-up attempting to make and market a student-aimed tablet and learning platform, has hired Stuart West as its new CFO.
West has worked at Yahoo, InfoSpace, TiVo and J.P. Morgan.
Kno is continuing to make key hires, as it prepares to ship the product by the end of the year, after recently raising another $46 million in funding to add to a $10 million round. It could, with West’s help now, be looking for even more investment.
Kara Swisher in News on September 27, 2010 at 10:40 am PT
Kno, the start-up that is creating a digital tablet for students, said it is also planning on releasing a single-screen version.
The company–which was started by the founder of Chegg, the online textbook rental company–had debuted a double-screen tablet at the eighth
D: All Things Digital conference in June.
Kara Swisher in News on September 26, 2010 at 8:55 pm PT
Chegg, the online textbook rental service, has raised another $75 million from Asia-based Ace Limited, according to sources.
Ace seems to be nonexistent on the Internet, although sources said it is a Hong Kong-based investment firm.
The round comes after a huge Series D investment in late 2009, which already brought Chegg’s funding to a whopping $144 million.
Kara Swisher in News on September 8, 2010 at 7:55 am PT
Today, Kno, a start-up that is taking on the textbook by replacing it with a tablet aimed at students, nabbed another $46 million in venture funding from a panoply of Silicon Valley bigs.
And what are those moneybags getting for their dough?
Well, here’s the demo for Kno, which debuted at the eighth
D: All Things Digital conference in June.
