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| 14.11.2014 | Kno founders launch $3.5M angel fund to back immigrant entrepreneurs in the US | Nitin Pachisia and Manan Mehta, co-founders of education startup Kno Inc., which was acquired by Intel last year, have launched an angel fund worth $3.5 million to support immigrant entrepreneurs in the US. Christened ‘Unshackled’, the fund... |
| 09.11.2013 | Intel buys digital textbook provider Kno | Kno's 225,000 titles will give a big boost to Intel's digital content library
The thing that I think shocked me the most about going to college (besides how disgusting some people will leave a common area bathroom) is how expensive some of ... |
| 08.11.2013 | Intel acquires edtech startup Kno to boost its digital content library | Intel is taking a big step into the education sector with its acquisition of Kno, a well-funded digital textbooks startup.
A spokesperson from Intel Education published a blog post on the website this afternoon after TechCrunch reported tha... |
| 08.11.2013 | Intel Has Acquired Kno, Will Push Further Into The Education Content Market With Interactive Textbooks | We had a tip about, and have now confirmed, Intel’s latest acquisition: Kno, the education startup that started life as a hardware business and later pivoted into software — specifically via apps that let students read interactive versions ... |
| 17.07.2013 | An Inkling of the Future of Books | For a company with a wickedly huge ambition, chief executive and founder Matt MacInnis chose a modest name. Check in with Merriam-Webster and “inkling” is merely a “slight indication or suggestion...or vague notion.” MacInnis, by contrast, ... |
| 19.02.2013 | What’s Missing From The New Digital Classroom? | As part of my research at Forrester, I’ve spent a lot of time getting to know companies developing technology solutions for K-12 and higher education. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) like Coursera and Udacity give students around the wo... |
| 12.02.2013 | Inkling and Kno's Page by Page E-Book Competition | ADVANCE HABITAT: That may sound like the name of some real-time military strategy game--and that may not be too far from what's happening. Two of Silicon Valley's digital publishing darlings, Kno and Inkling, appear to be going toe-to-toe w... |
| 11.02.2013 | Kno launches a free tool for publishers to turn boring files into an interactive ebook | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Ed-tech company Kno has the support of Silicon Va... |
| 11.02.2013 | Kno launches a free tool for publishers to turn boring files into an interactive ebook | Ed-tech company Kno has the support of Silicon Valley venture capitalists, but it has struggled to find its niche, until today.
Kno’s CEO Osman Rashid is confident about a product that can turn a boring PDF into an interactive ebook in “min... |
| 08.01.2013 | McGraw-Hill & Kno Offer A Peek Into The Future Of Textbooks: They’re Dynamic, Vocal, Adaptive & Bring Stats To Studying | For many startups, creating the educational platform (and learning experience) of the future began with reinventing the presentation, distribution — really, the essence — of educational content. And what is the most familiar package for tha... |
| 10.09.2012 | Resetting education: the shift to digital textbooks | There's a world of potential in interactive e-textbooks, but how can schools afford it?
Earlier this year, Education Secretary Arne Duncan and FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski proposed an ambitious goal for K-12 schools across the country: d... |
| 07.08.2012 | Kno Expands Beyond College, Partners With Houghton Mifflin To Bring Digital Textbooks To K-12 | Founded in 2009, Kno began its career with ambitious plans to disrupt education with a little mobile hardware — by developing a tablet that was tailor-made for students. Unfortunately, thanks to the meteoric rise of the iPad and, later, App... |
| 07.08.2012 | Kno gets into the K-12 market with digital textbooks | The e-textbook company partners with Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
It’s on. The K-12 e-textbook market started picking up speed earlier this year with the entrance of Apple’s iBooks 2, and later with the partnership of Inkling and ClassBook.com... |
| 12.07.2012 | Box CEO Aaron Levie says these mobile startups are the ones to watch | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Box CEO and co-founder, Aaron Levie knows a thing or two about cloud computing and designing enterprise applications for mobile.
When w... |
| 12.07.2012 | Box CEO Aaron Levie says these mobile startups are the ones to watch | Box CEO and co-founder, Aaron Levie knows a thing or two about cloud computing and designing enterprise applications for mobile.
When we gave him a mic at this year’s MobileBeat to discuss these topics, he advised the audience to go mobile ... |
| 27.01.2012 | Apple Textbook Controversy Isn’t About Books-It’s About Teaching | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
I don’t think there’s ever been a textbook that made it this easy to be a good student. —Roger Rosner, vice president of productivity applications, Apple
Whenever a company as... |
| 19.01.2012 | Why Apple Won’t Disrupt the Textbook Industry Anytime Soon | Apple revolutionizes stuff. It’s practically conventional wisdom in the tech world that, even if they’re not first in the game or necessarily even the best, the Cupertino-based giant has a tendency to make a noticeable impact. They didn’t i... |
| 19.01.2012 | Why Apple Won’t Disrupt the Textbook Industry Anytime Soon
Why Apple Won’t Disrupt the Textbook Industry Anytime Soon | Apple revolutionizes stuff. It’s practically conventional wisdom in the tech world that, even if they’re not first in the game or necessarily even the best, the Cupertino-based giant has a tendency to make a noticeable impact. They didn’t i... |
| 19.01.2012 | Kno CEO Osman Rashid To Apple: “Now We Will Fight On Who Has The Better Product” | Apple’s latest foray into digital textbooks today raises a lot of questions about the future of the textbook publishing industry and digital textbook startups who now find themselves going up against Apple. One of the highest profile digita... |
| 19.01.2012 | Educators hope Apple’s textbook foray will begin a “learning revolution” | An ACU student uses an iPad in class, part of the school's "Connected" mobile learning initiative.
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| 18.01.2012 | Chegg’s new e-book reader is practical, comfortable, boring | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Chegg’s digital textbook reader is the “nice guy:” comfortable, treats you right, but doesn’t come with many exciting twists.
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| 18.01.2012 | Chegg’s new e-book reader is practical, comfortable, boring | Chegg’s digital textbook reader is the “nice guy:” comfortable, treats you right, but doesn’t come with many exciting twists.
“[E-readers] are built for reading purposes, not studying purposes,” said Brent Tworetzky, product leader for Cheg... |
| 17.01.2012 | Apple to announce tools, platform to “digitally destroy” textbook publishing | Photograph by Casey Fleser reader comments 169 with 101 posters participating
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| 21.10.2011 | Steve Jobs wanted to revolutionize textbooks next | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
After revolutionizing the digital music business, smartphones and tablets, former Apple CEO Steve Jobs was planning to take on an unlik... |
| 21.10.2011 | 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 writers to create interactive digital ver... |
| 02.09.2011 | Back to school: Our top 5 digital education tools | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Textbooks are making the leap from paper to the Web and mobile apps. So, with school just around the corner, let’s take a look at some ... |
| 02.09.2011 | Back to school: Our top 5 digital education tools | Textbooks are making the leap from paper to the Web and mobile apps. So, with school just around the corner, let’s take a look at some of the latest tools to help you get the most out of your education.
The companies in this round-up are us... |
| 30.08.2011 | Kno’s Textbooks Is Top Back-To-School iPad App With One Download Every 8 Seconds | As students start going back to college, they are downloading Kno’s new Textbooks app for the iPad in droves. It is currently the No. 1 iPad education app, No. 2 grossing iPad app overall, and a top-25 free app (more popular than even the K... |
| 22.08.2011 | Kno brings video and 3D to digital textbooks | Students can now see 3D models taken right out of their textbooks and get individual video tutorials
Digital textbook platform Kno is upping the ante when it comes to the traditional read-assimilate-regurgitate textbook model. While other p... |
| 22.08.2011 | Kno Turns Textbooks 3D (Video) | How do you make a digital textbook more than just a glorified PDF on a tablet? Kno, the tablet textbook company started by Chegg co-founder Osman Rashid, is rolling out a variety of features to try to bring textbooks to life, including Face... |
| 10.08.2011 | Kno offers 100,000 textbooks on Facebook and Web | The company is also unveiling some cool new interactive features
Like the e-book revolution before it, the digital textbook revolution is well underway and promises to be big, but with a few caveats. It isn’t enough to simply make another f... |
| 09.08.2011 | Kno Brings 100,000 Textbooks To Facebook, Adds QuizMe And Journal To iPad | “We are not trying to redefine the textbook,” Kno CEO Osman Rashid tells me, “we are trying to redefine how you learn.” Today, Kno is taking a big steps towards making digital textbooks more social by making 100,000 college textbooks availa... |
| 27.07.2011 | Kno study points to sea change in digital textbooks | The findings: 25% of college students would forego sex rather than carry around physical textbooks
Kids really do say the darndest things…like digital textbooks are more important than sex. But that’s what education software company Kno fou... |
| 11.07.2011 | The man and company behind Facebook’s $70 billion valuation | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Michael Moe says Facebook is worth $70 billion, a... |
| 11.07.2011 | The man and company behind Facebook’s $70 billion valuation | Michael Moe says Facebook is worth $70 billion, and that valuation has Wall Street standing at attention.
Moe is the chief executive of GSV Capital (NASDAQ: GSVC), a publicly-traded, closed-end mutual fund. You may not have heard of them un... |
| 06.06.2011 | Kno launches iPad textbook app, no threat to used books yet | We’re still waiting for the student tablet company Kno to deliver on its innovative dual-screen tablet design, but for now iPad owners will be able to get a taste of Kno’s textbook marketplace with its newly launched iPad app.
The free app,... |
| 06.06.2011 | Kno Launches iPad Textbook App | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Kno, the Santa Clara, CA-based e-textbook startup founded by Chegg co-founder Osman Rashid, today announced the release of a beta version of Textbooks, an Apple iPad app that ... |
| 04.06.2011 | The Kno Textbook App Hits The iPad | Last night, Kno quietly released its first digital textbook app for the iPad. It includes its own store of “over 70,000 titles at 30% to 50% off list” price. And the app is a full textbook reader.
Kno, whose CEO Osman Rashid previously foun... |
| 24.04.2011 | Higher Education’s Toughest Test | Editor’s note: This post is co-authored by guest contributors Jon Bischke and Semil Shah. Bischke founded eduFire and RG Labs and is an advisor to Altius Education and Udemy. Shah is an entrepreneur interested in digital media, consumer Int... |
| 08.04.2011 | Kno Raises $30M in Series C Funding | Kno Inc., a Santa Clara, CA-based education software company, has raised $30m in a Series C funding round.
The investment was led by Intel Capital, which committed $20m, with participation from Andreessen Horowitz, Advance Publications, Fir... |
| 08.04.2011 | Kno Bails On Hardware, Takes Another $30 Million. Is An Android App Next? | Take a good look at the Kno textbook tablet at left because you might not ever see it again. Kno is getting out of the hardware business and, as reported earlier, taking another $30 million from Intel Capital, Advance Publications (owner of... |
| 08.04.2011 | Kno raises $30M round led by Intel Capital | Drops tablets and focuses on software
Education software company Kno announced Friday morning that it has raised $30 million Series C round led by Intel Capital, which contributed a whopping $20 million to the round. Other participants in t... |
| 07.04.2011 | Intel leads $30M round for student tablet maker Kno, consult on hardware design (updated) | Update: Intel has clarified some aspects of this story. Find its statement below.
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Intel seems hot for ambitious education tablet startup Kno. Intel Capital is leading a new $30 million funding round in the company (along with Conde Nast o... |
| 26.02.2011 | Fly Or Die (Tablet Edition): The Motorola Xoom And The Kno | In this week’s episode of Fly or Die, CrunchGear editor John Biggs and I do a special tablet edition where we take on the new Motorola Xoom and the Kno. (Watch the video above).
The Xoom is the first tablet to come out with the Android Hone... |
| 21.02.2011 | Student Tablet Maker Kno Reportedly In Talks To Sell Off Its Tablet Manufacturing | Kno, the makers of single- and dual-screen tablets for students, is looking to sell off the hardware manufacturing part of its business, according to All Things Digital’s Kara Swisher. Swisher reports that “sources close to the situation” s... |
| 21.01.2011 | Congratulations Crunchies Winners! Twitter Takes Best Startup Of 2010 | This year’s fourth annual Crunchies Awards have just concluded, and we’re happy to say that it was an overwhelming success. For those who weren’t at the event or watching our livestream, we’ve included the list of nominees and winners below... |
| 07.01.2011 | Announcing Your 2010 Crunchies Finalists | The finalists for the 2010 Crunchies Awards have been chosen. Over 243,000 votes were made across all categories and many outstanding achievements were discussed. Along with our partners GigaOm and VentureBeat, we are very proud to announce... |
| 17.11.2010 | Founders of Kno, Khan Academy, NIXTY Debate Education and Entrepreneurship | Are entrepreneurship and education opposed? Can companies be profitable while revolutionizing education? How can startups, with their emphasis on rapid change, co-exist with education, something that is traditionally risk-adverse? Is there ... |
| 09.11.2010 | Can the Kno Tablet Make the E-Textbook Grade? | Educational tablet maker Kno announced the pricing today for its soon-to-be-released device. As promised, the cost will be “under $1000” – ranging from $599 for the 16 GB single-screen to $999 for the 32 GB dual-screen versions. Kno is taki... |
| 09.11.2010 | Kno Tablet Will Start At $599 For Single-Screen, $899 For Dual-Screen | When textbook tablet startup Kno raised $46 million in September from Andreessen Horowitz and Silicon Valley Bank, it was shooting to price its dual-screen tablet at under $1,000. On Tuesday, it will announce the pricing of its tablets at $... |
| 08.11.2010 | Kno Tablet Will Start At $599 For Single-Screen, $899 For Dual-Screen | When textbook tablet startup Kno raised $46 million in September from Andreessen Horowitz and Silicon Valley Bank, it was shooting to price its dual-screen tablet at under $1,000. On Tuesday, it will announce the pricing of its tablets at $... |
| 12.10.2010 | TC Teardown: 13 Ways To Get To $10 Million In Revenues (Part II) | Editor’s note: This post is the second part of an analysis of different consumer Internet business models by guest author Steven Carpenter. It is suggested that you first read Part I.
Most consumer Internet startups fall into a baker’s doze... |
| 07.10.2010 | Kno, Inc., a TriplePoint Capital Portfolio Company, Secures $46 Million in Equity and Debt Financing | - |
| 27.09.2010 | Kno Announces Single Screen Tablet Textbook | Kno announced today that the company plans to make a single screen version of its tablet textbook. The company received a $46 million round of funding in August for its then dual-screen tablet textbook, which came with a strong endorsement ... |
| 27.09.2010 | Kno shows off its new textbook tablet (video) | Kno, a startup designing a tablet computer for students, today announced a cheap, single-screen model.
The Santa Clara, Calif. company doesn’t have any devices available yet, but it already announced a dual-screen tablet. The idea is that y... |
| 24.09.2010 | Technologies that have changed college life | From stone-age cell phones to space-age mobile devices
It's becoming abundantly clear that today's college students have more social and technological options open to them than ever before -- even more than they did five years ago.
Foursqua... |
| 09.09.2010 | Kno, Other Dual Screen Tablets Are Coming -- but No One Cares Post-iPad | The Kno dual-screen tablet is officially hitting stores this year, but the ambitious device is going to have a hard time carving out a niche in a post-iPad world. The Kno's student body target audience, massive 14-inch screens and questiona... |
| 08.09.2010 | Kno Secures $46M in Equity and Debt Financing | Kno, Inc., a Santa Clara, California-based digital textbook and dynamic learning platform for students, has secured $46m in its latest round of equity and debt financing.
The round was led by Andreessen Horowitz, with participation from Sil... |
| 08.09.2010 | Kno Raises $46 Million More To Build "Most Powerful Tablet Anyone Has Ever Made" | Marc Andreessen is normally enthusiastic about the startups he’s invested in. Still, when I spoke to him last week about Kno, he surprised me by saying it will be “the most powerful tablet anyone has ever made.” And he’s backing up that cla... |
| 08.09.2010 | With $46M grab, can Kno make the education tablet a reality? | Kno, the maker of an upcoming digital textbook tablet, announced today it has secured $46 million as part of an equity and debt round. Marc Andreesen’s Andreesen-Horowitz was the lead in the round, with Silicon Valley Bank and TriplePoint C... |
| 08.09.2010 | $46M for Kno’s Digital Textbooks | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Santa Clara, CA-based Kno, which is developing a two-panel tablet computer specialized for education, said today that it has raised $46 million in debt and equity financing fr... |
| 08.09.2010 | Digital textbook company Kno raises $46M | Andreessen Horowitz lead round in tablet maker for college students
What makes the textbook market so hot right now? College students are desperate to pay for a product that will whisk them away from the reality of the hundreds of dollars t... |
| 02.06.2010 | Two 14.1" touchscreens joined at the hip – meet the Kno. It's big. | Honestly? Two 14-inch displays? Tips the scales at 5 1/2 pounds? I honestly can say the Kno is the least appealing tablet-style device I’ve seen. I’m sorry, but the entire point of this form factor is portability and ease of use. How can yo... |
