Chegg CEO: I want students' business 365 days a year
High-profile Silicon Valley startup Chegg just raised $75 million to keep expanding its core business of shipping used textbooks to college students. But CEO Dan Rosensweig said that the company is...
View ArticlePublishers back Inkling's iPad textbooks
July 9-10, 2013 San Francisco, CA Early Bird Tickets on Sale iPad textbook startup Inkling just announced that it has won financial backing from the two biggest names in the textbook business —...
View ArticleSteve Jobs wanted to revolutionize textbooks next
After revolutionizing the digital music business, smartphones and tablets, former Apple CEO Steve Jobs was planning to take on an unlikely project: textbooks. Jobs apparently wanted to hire textbook...
View ArticleiBooks Author: Apple brings the magic of Keynote to e-books (hands-on)
Apple unveiled several new apps Thursday aimed at reforming the way educators deal with textbooks, but the most interesting bit of Apple’s announcement could be the introduction of the iBooks Author...
View ArticleCool private companies: Growing e-commerce firms
As a software securities analyst for investment banking firm Canaccord Genuity, Richard Davis spends 200 days a year on the road visiting companies. He goes to public companies such as Oracle and...
View ArticleCha-ching! Chegg raises $25M more for textbook and education platform
Textbook rental service Chegg has raised nearly $25 million in equity funding, according to a form D the company filed Friday with the Securities and Exchange commission. “The funding is led by...
View ArticleInkling squeezes interactive ebooks onto your iPhone
July 9-10, 2013 San Francisco, CA Early Bird Tickets on Sale After schooling the publishing industry on how interactive ebooks could be tackled on the iPad, Inkling is now focusing on the iPhone’s...
View ArticleCalifornia passes bills to create open-source digital library for college...
The state of California is on the verge of enacting legislation that would make college educations a bit more affordable for students and their parents. The California State Senate today passed two...
View ArticleBenchPrep releases iPad app with sync features inspired by Evernote
Today, digital course creator BenchPrep announced its new iPad app, which launches with sync functions. The new feature allows students to access a project across its iPhone, Android, iPad and web...
View ArticleInkling social functions make digital textbooks a study group in a box
Imagine a classroom living inside your textbook, constantly chattering and available to answer your questions. That’s what digital textbook creator Inkling wants to bring students with its announcement...
View ArticleDigital textbooks fulfills a dream of Steve Jobs
Apple’s event in New York showed that the iPad could eventually make paper textbooks an endangered species. And that’s just the way that former Apple chief executive Steve Jobs wanted it to be. In his...
View ArticleNews Corp aims to reinvent learning with Amplify tablet and education unit
After getting lessons recently on the legality of cell phone hacking, News Corp is looking to do some teaching of its own. The company has finally given a name to the education unit it launched almost...
View ArticleCoursera partners with publishers to bring digital textbooks to the masses
Coursera, the online course provider, is one of the fastest-growing startups that is transforming how we learn. Today, the company announced a partnership with a fellow ed-tech startup, Chegg, and is...
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