Kara Swisher in Commerce on November 12, 2013 at 12:06 pm PT
Which came first: The chicken or Wall Street investors?
Kara Swisher in Media on August 6, 2012 at 9:00 pm PT
Tired of kids carrying home a backpack full of heavy books? Kno knows their pain.
News Byte
John Paczkowski in News on August 6, 2012 at 2:04 pm PT
Amazon’s Kindle textbook rental service now has a dead-tree counterpart. The retailer on Monday
began offering rentals through its textbook store. Titles are offered for rental in 130 day increments with an allowance for a single 15-day extension. Pricing seems to fall in the $30-$60 range, with Amazon picking up the cost of return shipping and claiming an overall savings for students of up to 70 percent. Tough break for textbook rental services Chegg and BookRenter, which must now go head to head with a behemoth of a competitor.
Kara Swisher in News on March 19, 2012 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.