Oct 4, 2011 9:11 AM
Hoping that students will come to rent A Concise Guide to Macroeconomics and stay for the discounted pizza, Chegg is launching Chegg Deals, a daily deal site aimed at the college set. Daily deal sites aimed at undergrads have struggled.
Posted In: Advertising, Daily Deals, chegg
Aug 10, 2011 9:45 AM
Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) is not the only company to make an HTML5-based app announcement today: E-textbook company Kno is now allowing students to read their textbooks through Facebook and on the web.
Posted In: Media & Publishing, Books, e-readers, babur habib, chegg, kno, osman rashid, students, textbooks
Dec 8, 2010 12:15 PM
Chegg has bought up homework help site Cramster in its second acquisition to date. The deal comes four months after the popular textbook rental service purchased CourseRank, a site that helps college students plan their courses. Cramster, which says it has one million members, connects college and high school students…
Posted In: Media & Publishing, Books, Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Mergers & Acquisitions, chegg, cramster
Sep 27, 2010 1:05 PM
Already heavily-backed textbook rental firm Chegg has added another $75 million. The company’s service, which lets students rent textbooks so they don’t have to buy them, has gained a big following on college campuses. One outside estimate puts the company’s sales this year at $130 million, up from $25 million…
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Aug 19, 2010 1:40 PM
Very heavily-backed online textbook rental service Chegg has made what is apparently its first acquisition: college course planning site CourseRank. CourseRank, which was founded at Stanford as a class project three years ago and has since expanded to 175 colleges, features a planner which students can use to organize their…
Posted In: Media & Publishing, Books, Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Mergers & Acquisitions, Companies, Yahoo, chegg, courserank
Feb 2, 2010 2:30 PM
Former Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) COO Dan Rosensweig is leaving Activision (NSDQ: ATVI) after less than a year at the gaming giant in order to take the top job at heavily funded textbook rental startup Chegg. Rosensweig joined Activision last spring to head up the company’s Guitar Hero franchise as president…
Posted In: Industry Moves, Companies, Yahoo, chegg, dan rosensweig
Dec 17, 2008 11:03 AM
Chegg.com, an online rental service for textbooks, has picked up $25 million in a third round of funding. Kleiner, Perkins Caufield & Byers and Foundation Capital led the round, along with participation from existing investors Gabriel Venture Partners and Primera Capital. The Santa Clara-based startup was founded in 2005, and…
Posted In: Media & Publishing, Books, Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Venture Capital, chegg, foundation capital, gabriel venture partners, kpcb, primera capital
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