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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...

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Publishers 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 —...

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Steve 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...

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iBooks 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...

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Cool 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...

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Cha-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...

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Inkling 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...

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California 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...

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BenchPrep 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...

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Inkling 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...

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Digital 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...

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News 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...

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Coursera 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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