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Pulse iPad App Gets Steve Jobs's Praise in Morning…Then Booted From App Store...
Yesterday morning, the pair of Stanford University graduate students who made the hot news-reading iPad app, Pulse News Reader, were ecstatic to be mentioned first–for being among the most promising...
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Meet the Two Grad Students Who Freaked Out the NYT–The Pulse iPad App...
The first thing to strike you about the pair of Stanford University graduate students (pictured here) who made the banned and then unbanned news-reading iPad app, Pulse News Reader, is how they look...
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After Some Flashy Investing, Is Andreessen Horowitz's Next Move a Big New Fund?
Since it launched almost exactly a year ago with a $300 million fund, the venture firm of Andreessen Horowitz has cut a rather high-profile path through the Silicon Valley investing community. And...
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Full D8 Demo Video: Kno
As promised, All Things Digital is posting the full videos from our eighth D: All Things Digital conference, held in early June. Here’s the demo for Kno, a start-up that is taking on the textbook by...
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Chegg's Dan Rosensweig Talks About the Next Wave of Online Textbook Rentals...
Earlier this week, BoomTown went down to Santa Clara, Calif. to the offices of Chegg, the online textbook rental leader, to pay a visit on longtime Silicon Valley exec Dan Rosensweig. The voluble...
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Here's What VCs Get for $46 Million: The Kno Tablet D8 Demo
Today, Kno, a start-up that is taking on the textbook by replacing it with a tablet aimed at students, nabbed another $46 million in venture funding from a panoply of Silicon Valley bigs. And what are...
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A Hollywood Ending? The Timing of Zuckerberg's $100 Million Donation to...
The question is: Which movie was Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg thinking about when he decided recently to fork over $100 million to public schools in Newark, New Jersey? Was it a bid to spiff up his...
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Kno to Also Make a Single-Screen Tablet Textbook
Kno, the start-up that is creating a digital tablet for students, said it is also planning on releasing a single-screen version. The company–which was started by the founder of Chegg, the online...
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Kno Hires Fancy CFO, as It Preps Tablet Launch (And Possible New Funding Search)
Kno, the start-up attempting to make and market a student-aimed tablet and learning platform, has hired Stuart West as its new CFO. West (pictured here) has worked at Yahoo, InfoSpace, TiVo and J.P....
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Kno Prices Its Student Tablets at $599 and $899 to Ship by End of the Year
Kno, the high-profile Silicon Valley start-up trying to jump-start a market for tablets focused on students, announced tonight that it will have a limited number available by the end of the year for...
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Waiting for the Big Fish? The Next Web IPOs Might Surprise You
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...
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Exclusive: Kno Student Tablet Start-Up in Talks to Sell Off Tablet Part of...
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...
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Intel Capital, Condé Nast Owner Invest $30 Million in Kno; Intel to Consult...
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...
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Now Is the (Larry) Summers of Our Silicon Valley VC: Economic Guru Joins...
In an unusual appointment for the longtime public servant, former U.S. Treasury Secretary Larry Summers will join Silicon Valley venture powerhouse Andreessen Horowitz as a part-time “Special...
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Chegg Buys Zinch in Another Move Toward a "Social Education Platform"
Chegg — best known for online rentals of textbooks to college students — said it has just bought Zinch, a start-up that links high school students and college recruiters. Terms of the deal were not...
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Former FCC Chairman Reed Hundt Joins Kno Board
Former Federal Communications Commission Chairman Reed Hundt will join the board of Kno, the online education start-up. He is currently the principal at REH Advisors. The Silicon Valley-based Kno...
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WolframAlpha's Stephen Wolfram Talks About New Paid Knowledge Engine (Video)
Last week, when he was making the rounds of reporters and showing off the new paid version of his “computational knowledge engine” called WolframAlpha Pro, Stephen Wolfram, its eponymous creator, had...
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Sites Target Helping College Grads With Empty Pockets
It’s no secret that there are many young adults graduating from college with little money and lots of debt. But rather than seeing the lack of financial independence as a bad thing, a pair of new...
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Telling Employees He Hasn't "Walked the Talk," Cisco's John Chambers Leans In...
As most of the free world knows by now — from the ubiquitous media coverage that Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg and her new book, “Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead,” has gotten of late — there...
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Former Homestead Founder Returns to SV Curious -- And With $7.5 Million in...
Justin Kitch — the founder and CEO of Web 1.0’s Homestead small-business site that was sold to Intuit in 2007 — is returning with Curious, a lifelong learning startup aimed at connecting teachers and...
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YouVisit Brings College Campuses to You
When trying to entice prospective students, colleges and universities encourage students for a visit to get a feel for the campus atmosphere. But not everyone has the ability to travel to their...
View ArticleTwo Dead in San Francisco Plane Crash
Two 16-year-old Chinese girls were identified as the passengers killed in Saturday’s airliner crash in San Francisco. China’s Ministry of Education said in a statement that 70 of those aboard were...
View ArticleOnline Class Aims to Earn Millions
Two University of Texas at Austin professors this week launched their introductory psychology class from a makeshift studio, with a goal of eventually enrolling 10,000 students at $550 a pop and...
View ArticleAre Smartphones Turning Us Into Bad Samaritans?
In late September, on a crowded commuter train in San Francisco, a man shot and killed 20-year-old student Justin Valdez. As security footage shows, before the gunman fired, he waved around his .45...
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Justin Kitch Talks About His New Learning Platform, Curious (Video)
Web 1.0 phenom Justin Kitch sold his Homestead small-business site to Intuit in 2007 and went to work there. After a while, as is par for the course with longtime entrepreneurs, he left. But just a...
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