Kara Swisher in News on March 19 at 8:29 pm PT
Raghu Ramakrishnan has left the purple building.
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.
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 Media on September 7, 2011 at 7:00 am PT
While the Yahoo board has yet to begin a search, I have already been hard at work on selecting the next CEO.
Ina Fried in Mobile on August 10, 2011 at 12:01 am PT
The company, which once aspired to make education-oriented tablets, is now expanding its iPad software with the ability to automatically create quizzes and create digital notes.
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.
Katherine Boehret in The Digital Solution on January 18, 2011 at 3:38 pm PT
Katie takes a look at Quora, a question-and-answer site that encourages thoughtful—even long-winded—discussions.
