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| 07.03.2025 | Momentic Raises $3.7M in Seed Funding | Momentic, a San Francisco, CA-based provider of an AI-powered software testing platform, raised $3.7M in Seed funding.
The round was led by FundersClub (FCVC), with participation from Y Combinator, General Catalyst, AI Grant, and Karman Ven... |
| 06.03.2025 | Google tests an AI-only version of its search engine | Google launched an experimental version of its search engine on Wednesday that completely eliminates its classic 10 blue links in favour of an AI-generated summary.
The new feature, available to subscribers of Google One AI Premium, can be ... |
| 05.03.2025 | SimilarWeb data: This obscure AI startup grew 8,658% while OpenAI crawled at 9% | Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More
SimilarWeb‘s latest Global AI Tracker report reveals dramatic shifts in the AI landscape, painting a clear pictur... |
| 05.03.2025 | Google leans further into AI-generated overviews for its search engine | Google is going to begin a gradual rollout of an “AI mode” option that will result in the search engine generating even more AI overviews. When search is in AI mode, Google is warning the overviews are likely to become more conversational a... |
| 04.03.2025 | UConn star Paige Bueckers touts financial literacy as NIL boosts women’s sports | Sign up today for the new CNBC Sport Newsletter
University of Connecticut star Paige Bueckers has teamed up with Intuit to offer free educational financial literacy programs to athletes and students at universities nationwide.
The company s... |
| 01.03.2025 | Chegg vs. Google: A Battle for Survival in the Age of AI | In the digital arena, giants clash. Chegg, a once-thriving online education platform, has thrown down the gauntlet against Google. The stakes? Its very existence. Chegg's lawsuit against Google highlights a growing concern: the impact of ar... |
| 25.02.2025 | Stocks making the biggest moves premarket: Eli Lilly, Keurig Dr Pepper, Home Depot, Chegg and more | - |
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| 24.02.2025 | Chegg sues Google for hurting traffic with AI as it considers strategic alternatives | Chegg on Monday filed suit in federal district court against Google, claiming that AI summaries of search results have hurt the online education company’s traffic and revenue.
Chegg has engaged Goldman Sachs to consider strategic options, i... |
| 25.01.2025 | Navigating the AI Frontier: Galileo's Agentic Evaluations Set to Transform AI Reliability | In the rapidly evolving landscape of artificial intelligence, trust is the new currency. As AI agents become integral to business operations, ensuring their reliability is paramount. Enter Galileo, a San Francisco-based startup that has jus... |
| 23.01.2025 | Galileo Launches Agentic Evaluations to Empower Developers to Build Reliable AI Agents | The comprehensive solution gives developers the tools and insights needed to optimize agent performance and ensure readiness for real-world deployment
Galileo, the leading AI Evaluation Platform, today unveiled Agentic Evaluations, a transf... |
| 14.01.2025 | Tractor Factory raised $500K Pre-seed funding from All In Capital | In its pre-seed round, Tractor Factory, an electric tractor technology company, raised Rs 4 crore, or about $500,000. All In Capital, an early-stage investment firm, led the round.
A number of well-known investors took part in the round, in... |
| 22.12.2024 | Инвесторы в замешательстве: как AI влияет на акции компаний | Иностранные инвесторы обеспокоены развитием AI через два года после дебюта ChatGPT
В начале этого месяца акции Adobe Inc. резко упали после того, как компания дала разочаровывающий прогноз по доходам. Этот отчет вновь вызвал опасения, что, ... |
| 13.11.2024 | From Star to Struggler: Chegg's Fight to Survive Against ChatGPT Favoritism "Technology shifts have created headwinds for our industry and Chegg's business specifically. Recent advancements in th... | Online education company player Chegg is biting the bullet- after witnessing significant growth between 2010 and 2020- due to the emergence of artificial intelligence (AI) and generative AI. The company's stock plummeted 99 per cent since 2... |
| 12.11.2024 | Power Struggles and Startup Dreams: A Tale of Two Cities | In the heart of Johannesburg, a flicker of hope emerged as Eskom, the beleaguered power utility, paused its plans to cut electricity to the city. This decision came after urgent intervention from Energy Minister Kgosientsho Ramokgopa. The t... |
| 11.11.2024 | Bookmarks | Eskom won’t cut power to Joburg – for now | Kgosienthsho Ramokgopa. Image: GCIS
These are the articles, videos and more that caught the attention of TechCentral’s editorial team in the past 24 hours. Eskom agrees to suspend plan to cut Joburg’s power: Eskom will no longer go ahead wi... |
| 13.09.2024 | The Digital Eye: How XP Health is Transforming Vision Care | In a world where convenience reigns supreme, XP Health is carving a niche in the vision care landscape. The San Carlos, California-based company recently secured $33.2 million in Series B funding, a significant leap forward in its mission t... |
| 13.09.2024 | XP Health Raises $33.2M in Series B Funding | XP Health, a San Carlos, CA-based company providing a digital-first vision care platform, raised $33.2M in Series B funding.
The round was led by QED Investors with other investors including Canvas Ventures, American Family Ventures, HC9 Ve... |
| 13.09.2024 | XP Health: $33.2 Million (Series B) Closed To Modernize Vision Care | XP Health, a company focused on modernizing vision care with a digital-first vision care platform, announced a new $33.2 million Series B infusion of capital. This funding round was led by global fintech VC firm QED Investors with other pro... |
| 04.09.2024 | Navigating the College Funding Maze: Strategies for a Debt-Free Future | The journey to a college degree is often paved with financial hurdles. Rising tuition costs loom like storm clouds, threatening to rain down debt. But with a strategic approach, students can navigate this maze without sacrificing their fina... |
| 04.09.2024 | College on a Budget: How to Fund Your Education Without Sacrificing Your Future | The dream of attending college comes with the challenge of managing its ever-rising costs. The idea of graduating with a significant amount of debt can be daunting.
However, by adopting a strategic approach, you can fund your college educat... |
| 16.08.2024 | How does Chegg make money? | Initially a platform for renting textbooks, it now makes 90% of revenue from software subscriptiions
From January 2000 to June 2022, the price of college textbooks increased 162%, more than double the 74.4% inflation rate during that same t... |
| 08.05.2024 | Homeworkify.co.uk : Exploring Alternative Resources for Student Success | Share
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In the modern day instructional landscape, students frequently flip to a selection of online resources to as resources for their studies. ... |
| 09.04.2024 | Antica Productions Launches Season 3 of Higher Ed Spotlight Podcast | Season 3 launches with more cutting edge conversations with the visionaries and innovators shaping the future of higher education TORONTO, ON, CANADA, April 9, 2024 /EINPresswire.com/ -- Antica Productions announces the launch of Higher Ed ... |
| 25.03.2024 | Excelling at Utilizing fraction bar in Numerical statements | Share
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Fraction bars, otherwise called division strips or part tiles, are significant apparatuses in the domain of math, especially in understanding and working with parts. These visual guides give a substantial portr... |
| 29.02.2024 | Futurra Group’s MathMaster Introduces AI Tutor | MathMaster by Futurra Group Is an app that connects users with freelance math experts for assistance MathMaster integrates and AI solution to speed up the service and alleviate the workload of human experts The AI integration cannot replace... |
| 08.12.2023 | Ментальное Здоровье и ИИ: Как ChatGPT меняет Игру в Психологической Помощи" | Как может выглядеть будущее психологической помощи, ментального здоровья, благополучия с применением технологий искусственного интеллекта
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Революция в области искусственного интеллекта переписывает правила игры в сф... |
| 08.08.2023 | The edtech startup funding slowdown may be hitting the 'bottom of the market' | There has been a large drop off in education startups getting funded in Q2, a recent report shows. Getty Images This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now.
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| 16.06.2023 | Что патентуют мировые лидеры edtech-индустрии | Edtеch, или образовательные технологии, сегодня считают одной из самых быстро растущих ниш. Эта сфера не очень богата на патенты, так как в образовательном процессе не так уж много решений, которые можно защитить с помощью этого инструмента... |
| 25.05.2023 | Звук из будущего. От слухового аппарата до мозговой бионики | Согласно данным ВОЗ проблема нарушений слуха стоит миру 980 миллиардов долларов США в год. В эту сумму входят не только социальные пособия, но и затраты на обучение, а также амортизация сопутствующего ущерба. По той же статистике, серьёзные... |
| 03.05.2023 | Aisera embraces Microsoft AI copilot for advanced enterprise service experience | Join top executives in San Francisco on July 11-12, to hear how leaders are integrating and optimizing AI investments for success. Learn More
Today, Aisera, a provider of conversational AI tooling for customer and employee service, extended... |
| 17.04.2023 | Daily AI Roundup: Biggest Machine Learning, Robotic And Automation Updates 18th April 2023 | This is our AI Daily Roundup . We are covering the top updates from around the world. The updates will feature state-of-the-art capabilities in artificial intelligence (AI), Machine Learning, Robotic Process Automation, Fintech, and human-s... |
| 17.04.2023 | Chegg Announces CheggMate, the New AI companion, Built with GPT-4 | Chegg, the leading student-first connected learning platform, announced CheggMate, a new AI enhanced learning service built with OpenAI’s most advanced model, GPT-4. CheggMate will leverage Chegg’s leading personalized learning platform, pr... |
| 28.03.2023 | Antica Productions Launches Season 2 of Higher Ed Spotlight Podcast | Hosted by veteran journalist Ben Wildavsky, Season 2 continues with more conversations with visionaries and innovators shaping the future of higher education. TORONTO, CANADA, March 28, 2023/EINPresswire.com/ -- Antica Productions announced... |
| 15.03.2022 | Perlego raises $50M to build out its vision of being the ‘Spotify for textbooks’ | Spotify helped pave the way for a new model for consumers to listen to music: pay a monthly fee to stream whatever you want, with no need to own any physical or digital versions of it. Now, a startup called Perlego, which has been applying ... |
| 08.02.2022 | Chegg : Reports 2021 Financial Results and Gives 2022 Guidance - Form 8-K | Chegg Reports 2021 Financial Results and Gives 2022 Guidance
Chegg Services revenue increased 29% year over year
SANTA CLARA, Calif., February 7, 2022 /BUSINESS WIRE/ -- Chegg, Inc. (NYSE:CHGG), the leading student-first connected learning ... |
| 17.12.2021 | Don’t Expect Student Loan Forgiveness Next Year, Either | President Biden made a ton of campaign promises in order to get elected, and some of them meant everything to aspiring students struggling to pay for higher education. Among those promises, plans to double the maximum value of Pell Grants w... |
| 01.11.2021 | Chegg Reports Third Quarter 2021 Financial Results - Form 8-K | Chegg Reports Third Quarter 2021 Financial Results
Increases Securities Repurchase Program By $500 Million
SANTA CLARA, Calif., November 1, 2021 /BUSINESS WIRE/ -- Chegg, Inc. (NYSE:CHGG), today reported financial results for the three mont... |
| 24.06.2021 | Why Ashton Kutcher Says That "Money Is A Drug" | June 24, 2021 7 min read
Ashton Kutcher remembers starting college, getting a credit card, and then spending carelessly. “I assumed that someday, somehow, I was just going to be able to pay this thing off,” he says.
That’s because he, like ... |
| 14.05.2021 | Global Teacher Prize Winner Ranjitsinh Disale Urges “Heroic” Hong Kong Teachers and Students to Apply for the 2021 Global Teacher Prize and The Inaugural Chegg.Org Global Student Prize Before Deadline... | Inspiring teachers and students now have until 16 May to submit their application
HONG KONG SAR – Media OutReach – 14 May 2021 – Global Teacher Prize 2020 winner Ranjitsinh Disale today urged Hong Kong teachers and students to apply for the... |
| 09.05.2021 | StuDocu raises $50M as its note-sharing network for college students passes 15M users | Whether learning online or taking a class in person, every student knows all too well how important it is to have good notes from your classes as a key way to remember and apply what you’ve been taught. Now, an Amsterdam-based startup calle... |
| 16.02.2021 | Essential E-Learning Ecosystems Move to the Head of the Class | NEW YORK, Feb. 16, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Long before the COVID-19 pandemic, the trend toward digital online learning in both education and business was growing at a steady pace. As the pandemic surged, tens of millions were forced to work fr... |
| 06.02.2021 | Addressing Academic Integrity In A Hyper-Connected, Pandemic World | |
| 07.01.2021 | The tech-powered wave of smart, not slow, tutoring sessions | While starting a tutoring marketplace is easy, scaling is often where the troubles begin. Tutoring marketplaces require a base of tutors that have the bandwidth and empathy to work with students across different learning styles, goals and c... |
| 14.08.2020 | Edtech exits are increasing, but by how much? | Before the coronavirus made edtech more relevant, companies in the sector were historically likely to see slow, low exits. Despite successful IPOs by 2U, Chegg and Instructure in the United States, public markets are not crowded with edtech... |
| 07.08.2020 | Mental health service provider Ginger raises US$ 50M in Series D funding | Ginger has also declared that David ibnAle, the founding partner of Advance Venture Partners and Steve Kraus, partner at Bessemer Venture Partners, have joined the company’s board of directors. |
| 02.08.2020 | The Covid-19 Crisis Is A Boost To Educational Technology Companies | Closed schools, universities, and job training centers have made the need for online education ... [+] urgent.getty |
| 05.06.2020 | Chegg Buys Mathway, for Approx. $100M | Chegg, Inc. (NYSE: CHGG), a Santa Clara, Calif.-based edtech company, acquired Mathway, a math solving company.
The acquisition amount was approximately $100m in an all-cash transaction. There are potential additional payments of up to $15m... |
| 13.04.2020 | Frank, which uses machine learning to give students access to financial aid, raises $5M | The company uses student data to find the best ways to help them pay for school
It's been a while since I have to file for financial aid for college, but my memories of that process are not particularly happy ones. My mother was thankfully ... |
| 13.04.2020 | Frank raises $5M more in its quest to get students max financial aid | Frank, a New York-based student-facing startup, has raised $5 million in what the company described as an “interim strategic round” that Chegg, a public edtech company, took part in. According to Frank founder and CEO Charlie Javice, previo... |
| 05.09.2019 | Chegg to Buy Thinkful, for Up To $100M | Chegg, Inc. (NYSE: CHGG), a Santa Clara, Calif.-based provider of smart tools for students, is to acquire Thinkful, an online learning platform that offers professional courses directly to students across America, for approximately $80m in ... |
| 11.07.2019 | From context to solution, using AI to keep your customer happy | 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!
At Transform 2019 today, Ryan Lester, senior dire... |
| 11.07.2019 | From context to solution, using AI to keep your customer happy | At Transform 2019 today, Ryan Lester, senior director of customer experience technologies at LogMeIn, said companies should not just think about AI from a bot perspective, but rather from multiple perspectives. And while many companies have... |
| 06.06.2019 | Chegg Expands Student Debt Relief Benefit for Employees—Up to $5,000 More a Year | Paying off student loans has become the new cool. Last month, billionaire Robert F. Smith, CEO of Vista Equity Partners, pledged to pay off the debt for his alma mater’s graduating class. It was a hard act to follow (although Burger King tr... |
| 31.03.2019 | The 2019 EdSurde Annual Special: Edtech April Fool’s News That Should Stay Fake | Congratulations for making it through the first quarter of 2019! The reward that awaits: Our fine annual tradition of hijinks and horseplay, exaggerations and extrapolations, and all the absurdities not fit for print on any day other than A... |
| 27.03.2019 | Now With a ‘Sizable Cash Hoard’ of $1 Billion, What Might Chegg Buy? | Chegg, a publicly-traded provider of textbook rentals and online student services, has closed a $700 million convertible note offering that, after taking expenses into consideration, should give the company an additional $682.7 million in c... |
| 14.10.2018 | Стартап дня год спустя: безымянный ларек у дома, каталог радиостанций TuneIn и другие проекты Статьи редакции | Директор по стратегии и анализу Mail.Ru Group Александр Горный о судьбе проектов из рубрики «Стартап дня».
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| 01.04.2018 | The 2018 EdSurde Annual Special: Surgecoin, EduWands and Other News Not Fit for Print | Happy first of April—a day where the joke’s on all of us.
It used to be that people waited until today to unleash their pranks. But some companies are jumping the gun. Duolingo got a head start with Brewolingo, “craft beers from America's O... |
| 11.12.2017 | Augmented reality treasure hunting app Seek pivots to become a hub for AR projects | One year after launching at South by Southwest with an augmented reality treasure hunting app, the Utah-based startup Seek has returned with an update transforming its service into a “YouTube for AR”.
Rather than being focused on disappeari... |
| 12.09.2017 | Alteryx Promote puts data science to work across the company | When Alteryx acquired Yhat in June, it was only a matter of time before the startup’s data-science management software began showing up in Alteryx. Just today, the company announced Alteryx Promote, a new tool based on Yhat’s product set.
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| 17.06.2017 | Stale Words and Hackneyed Ideas That Make Edtech Investors Cringe | If you go to startup pitch events, you’ve seen it happen:
An entrepreneur says something—something so naïve, egregious and hackneyed—that it makes the investors, along with educators who are now increasingly in the audience, physically crin... |
| 04.04.2017 | 3 Traits to Look for During Your Next New Hire Interview | There’s a lot of pressure on growing businesses and even larger companies to hire for cultural fit. Alarming new findings show that poor cultural fit due to turnover can cost companies between 50 and 60 percent of the person’s annual salary... |
| 17.01.2017 | Roomify Relocates to Austin to Scale its Dorm Room Furnishing Business | |
| 08.12.2016 | Joe Lonsdale pours $4.55M for alcohol IoT startup Nectar | Nationally, bars today lose billions of dollars from improperly managed alcohol inventory. These losses add up quickly as a result of oversized pours, spills and even theft.
Nectar, a stealth connected-device startup operating out of a Palo... |
| 18.05.2016 | The Latest Job Benefit: Paying Employees’ Student Loans | When Brendon McQueen graduated from Columbia University in 2009, he had 12 different student loans totaling $120,000. His convoluted repayment plan had him contributing $900 a month. Too large a sum for someone with a new baby and a job wor... |
| 07.05.2016 | M&A roundup - week ending 5/7/16 | Adobe bought Livefyre; LinkedIn acquired Run Hop; Pinterest purchased URX
Video-sharing website Vimeo acquired VHX, a platform that allows video creators sell their content from their own websites. No financial terms of the deal were disclo... |
| 02.05.2016 | Chegg acquires Imagine Easy Solutions, the company behind EasyBib, BibMe and Citation Machine | The online textbook service Chegg today announced that it has acquired Imagine Easy Solutions for $42 million.
Imagine Easy is the company behind online bibliography and research tools like EasyBib (which was also its first product) and sim... |
| 19.04.2016 | Heard & Overheard at the ASU+GSV Summit | This post has been updated with news and observations from the second day of the conference.
“Inequality is the parent of revolution.” The quote, attributed to Aristotle, occupied one of the flurry of slides accompanying Michael Moe’s welco... |
| 28.01.2016 | Booster Fuels, Which Fills Up Your Car While You’re Working, Raises $9M Series A Round | Even if you’re living in one of the few states where pumping your own gas is illegal, driving to the gas station to fill up is probably not your favorite chore. Booster Fuels wants to take the hassle out of fillups. The company partners wit... |
| 20.01.2016 | New Chegg/USA Today Student Poll Numbers Give Android Devices the 'Cool' Factor over those from Apple
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| 12.06.2015 | Apple Music should fear Spotify, not the other way around | Apple’s recently announced streaming music service is being viewed by many as a potential Spotify killer. Spotify might have more than 20 million paying subscribers and over 75 million active users, but Apple is a force that cannot be ignor... |
| 07.02.2015 | YC-Backed Yhat Gives Data Science Teams A Head Start | Yhat founders Greg Lamp and Austin Ogilvie were working with a team of data scientists at OnDeck, a successful small business loan startup, when they noticed a problem.
The data science team was coming up with cool ideas, but the engineers ... |
| 22.12.2014 | A New Study Indicates that Students Still Prefer Apple's iPhone, iPad and Headphones, Thanks to Beats
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Apple has a commanding lead in smartphones, with 51% of all respondents indicating a preference for a brand new iPhone. Samsung is the only other brand of smartphones to crack double digits, coming in at 29% likely driven by low... |
| 11.08.2014 | StudyBlue Founder Chris Klundt Steps Back Into CEO Role, Revamps Site Design, Preps For Pro | Just in time for students to head back to school, crowdsourced flash card study platform StudyBlue announced a new site design, search navigation capabilities, a lifelong learning feature, a new pro version of the platform and that co-found... |
| 04.08.2014 | Chegg Strikes Distribution Partnership With Ingram Books, Announces 15% Boost In Earnings From Digital Services | Student textbook resale site Chegg has struck a strategic partnership with Ingram Content Group today. Said to be the world’s largest distributor of books, Ingram will acquire a significant share of Chegg’s textbook inventory in the next co... |
| 25.06.2014 | Chegg’s InstaEdu Buy: Looking to Bring 24-Hour Tutoring to Students | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Earlier this month, Chegg, a company that pitches itself as “the student hub,” with services like textbook rentals and job and internship help, ponied up $30 million in cash t... |
| 03.06.2014 | Online Tutoring Center InstaEDU Acquired By Chegg For $30 Million | Chegg, the textbook resale site turned all things student hub, today announced a $30 million cash acquisition of student tutoring marketplace InstaEDU.
An acquisition like this makes sense for Chegg . The company started out as an online te... |
| 03.06.2014 | Chegg buys online tutoring service InstaEDU for $30M | As Chegg continues its evolution as a "student hub," it gets into the online tutoring space
Textbook rental service Chegg hasn’t had an easy go of the stock market since going public last November. Shares have declined nearly 40% ... |
| 04.03.2014 | Flashnotes Buys Moolaguides, Consolidating The Market For Crowdsourced, Online Study Materials | Flashnotes, a Boston-based startup that operates a marketplace for students to sell and buy study materials for specific courses, has acquired a smaller competitor called Moolaguides. The move comes around a month after Flashnotes announced... |
| 15.02.2014 | Despite High IPO And Solid First Quarter, Chegg Plummets As Investors Worry Over Long-Term Prospects | In November, eight-year-old education company Chegg debuted on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol “CHGG.” In the days prior, Chegg had priced its initial public offering at $12.50/share, high above its expected range of $9.... |
| 03.02.2014 | Flashnotes, A Peer-To-Peer Marketplace For College Study Materials, Picks Up Another $3.6M | Amid the rush of attention that online education is getting from the tech world, universities, students and investors, a startup that focuses on content for brick-and-mortar classrooms has picked up more funding. Flashnotes — a Boston-based... |
| 13.11.2013 | Chegg shares fall 23% on first day of trading, but key investor unfazed | Chegg’s (CHGG) shares are limping along on its first day of trading, down 22% from the initial price of $12.50.
The textbook rental site’s stock fell to $9.64 a share, at the time of publishing, but board member Paul Holland is optimistic t... |
| 13.11.2013 | In $187.5M IPO, Chegg Debuts On NYSE In Twitter’s Shadow, As Shares Slump 15 Percent | It’s been a long-time in coming, but eight-year-old education company, Chegg, debuted this morning on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol “CHGG.” In the days prior, Chegg priced its initial public offering at $12.50/share, o... |
| 13.11.2013 | Chegg shares fall 23% on first day of trading, but key investor unfazed | 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!
Chegg’s (CHGG) shares are limping along on its fi... |
| 31.10.2013 | Textbook rentals meet Wall Street: Chegg files for $158M IPO, valuing company at $977M | Student-first online education hub Chegg filed a public version of its documentation to go public today, seeking to raise $158 million by selling 14.4 million shares at between $9.50 and $11.50.
Chegg was founded as a textbook exchange in 2... |
| 22.10.2013 | Former Netflix CFO Barry McCarthy Joins Super-Secretive Payments Startup Clinkle As COO | Super-secretive startup Clinkle hasn’t had a lot to say about what it’s up to, but it’s announcing a big hire today that it no doubt hopes will propel it forward in the mobile payments market. As the company prepares for public launch next ... |
| 02.09.2013 | If You’re Buying Textbooks This Week, Get Educated, Not Schooled | When a semester’s worth of textbooks can add up to a couple (or three or four) hundred dollars, hitting the checkout line at the campus bookstore is a distressing experience for many students, to say the least.
Analog solutions to this prob... |
| 22.08.2013 | Back To School: The College Survival Kit | This is a post in Back To School, an ongoing series where ReadWrite covers technology trends in education for parents and educators.
Preparing for college can be emotional, hectic and, of course, expensive.
According to the National Retail ... |
| 15.08.2013 | Chegg Files for $150M IPO | According to a filing with the S.E.C., Chegg, a Santa Clara, CA-based, venture-backed online textbook rental company, filed for a $150m IPO.
Investors include Ace limited, Foundation Capital, Gabriel Venture Partners, Insight Venture Partne... |
| 14.08.2013 | InstaEDU Closes $4M Series A Financing | InstaEDU, a San Francisco, California-based online service for on-demand tutoring, closed a $4m Series A financing.
The round was led by Battery Ventures, with participation from The Social+Capital Partnership, which led InstaEDU’s seed rou... |
| 14.08.2013 | Online Textbook Rental Firm Chegg Files For $150 Million IPO | Online textbook rental company Chegg today filed for a $150 million initial public offering. Its proposed ticker symbol is CHGG.
The company had revenue of $149 million in 2010, $172 million in 2011 and $213 million in 2012. In the first ha... |
| 14.08.2013 | Funding Daily: Let's stay online | 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!
Today was a big day for outages. Both The New Yor... |
| 08.05.2013 | 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 striking deals with the largest publishe... |
| 30.01.2013 | As It Moves Beyond Rentals To Become A Student Hub, Chegg Brings 2.5M Textbook Solutions To iOS | Chegg has long been known as a textbook company, becoming one of the first companies to bring textbook rental online and reach widespread adoption. But with Amazon, Apple and others moving aggressively into the textbook market — and the mar... |
| 27.01.2013 | A non-creepy Craigslist: CampusWall rolls out a safer marketplace for college students | We’ve all encountered those questionable Craigslist ads: one person looking for an “R. Kelly Impersonator,” another selling a portable stripper pole — the list goes on.
Personally, when I see an ad posted by a man who is “Unemployed. Short ... |
| 19.10.2012 | 16 Sharing Startups That Save Money and Reduce Your Consumption | “Unnecessary possessions are unnecessary burdens. If you have them, you have to take care of them! There is great freedom in simplicity of living.” -Peace Pilgrim
A whole host of tech startups today want to rid us of unnecessary possessions... |
| 06.08.2012 | Amazon Takes On Chegg, B&N And Others With Its New Paper Textbook Rental Service | Last year, Amazon launched electronic textbook rentals for Kindle users that promised to save students up to 80% of their textbooks’ list prices. Now, just in time for back-to-school season, the Seattle-based company has also launched a ren... |
| 06.08.2012 | Amazon now renting old-fashioned paper textbooks | Amazon now offers physical textbook rentals as a cheaper option for college students, a move designed to keep Amazon as a dominant player in textbooks.
While Amazon has offered digital rentals of textbooks for more than a year, this new ini... |
| 06.08.2012 | Amazon now renting old-fashioned paper textbooks | 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!
Amazon now offers physical textbook rentals as a ... |
| 09.03.2012 | 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 existing investors to fuel the growth of the b... |
