Kara Swisher in Media on February 15 at 5:05 am PT
The techie’s techie is now offering a pro version, so you can be even geekier than ever.
Kara Swisher in News on November 1, 2011 at 5:01 am PT
The online education start-up grabs a new director.
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.
Kara Swisher in News on June 29, 2011 at 3:00 pm PT
In an unusual appointment for the longtime public servant, former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers will join Silicon Valley venture powerhouse Andreessen Horowitz as a part-time “Special Advisor.”
Summers got to know the firm with an assist from Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg, who was a student of his when he was a professor at Harvard University.
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.
Kara Swisher in News on February 1, 2011 at 1:00 pm PT
No, not Facebook.
Not Zynga.
And probably not Groupon.
At least not
yet, when it comes to the blockbuster Web IPOs that Wall Street and investors have been waiting for, and now expecting to roll out sooner than later in the wake of the return of the Web IPO in recent weeks.
Not so fast.
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.
